On Sat, Apr 18, 2009 at 7:50 PM, James Sutherland <jcsutherland.u...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Apr 18, 2009, at 5:27 PM, Stefano Franchi wrote: > >> On Saturday 18 April 2009 17:24:38 James Sutherland wrote: >>> >>> I think that I may have found a bug in LyX. >>> >>> 1. Create a footnote. >>> 2. In the footnote, insert a hyperlink >>> 3. In the "target" field of the hyperlink, insert a URL with a "#" >>> sign in it, i.e. www.example.com/#1 >>> >>> Latex fails to compile this document. >>> >>> A hyperlink with a "#" in the target works as long as it is NOT in a >>> footnote. >>> >>> I have attached a trivially simple file that exposes this problem. >>> >>> This worked in 1.6.0. (Actually, I have a file that used this in >>> 1.6.0rc3 - I haven't tried recompiling that particular file since >>> then... >>> >>> Can anyone verify that this is a bug? >> >> Your example works fine here, actually: Lyx 1.6.2 with TexLive 2007 on >> Kubuntu >> Intrepid. > > Hmm.. Good to know. I am on Mac OSX 10.5.6 LyX 1.6.2 with TexLive 2008. > Can anyone else on a Mac duplicate this?
I can confirm the problem on Mac OS X 10.5.6 with TeXLive 2008. Here's the error message (repeated 3 times): Illegal parameter number in definition of \...@tempa. } You meant to type ## instead of #, right? Or maybe a } was forgotten somewhere earlier, and things are all screwed up? I'm going to assume that you meant ##. Bennett
