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In <1992Aug11.143055.18885@ctr.columbia.edu> (comp.tex.tex, Tue, 11 Aug
1992 14:30:55 GMT) anselmo@cumesb.mech.columbia.edu (Andrew P. Anselmo)
posted:
> Thanks to all who sent me corrections for hangcaption.sty.  This works
> nicely for basic captions, but if you put a \label for long captions, you
> get this form:
> 
> Figure 27.
>             Sample output for a long caption.  As many can tell,
> 	    I am a neophyte TeX person, and can't even pronounce
> 	    it correctly.
> 
> 
> Any solutions?

This is related, believe me.  In
<1992Aug11.194154.6366@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca> (comp.text.tex, Tue, 11
Aug 1992 19:41:54 GMT) mroussel@alchemy.chem.utoronto.ca (Marc Roussel)
posted:
> In article <0095EBB9.4825C640.13366@SHSU.edu> "George D. Greenwade"
> <bed_gdg@SHSU.edu> writes:
> >With respect to b) [I haven't tried this, but it's a good guess], try:
> > \caption{\label{fig:tree} A tree grows in Brooklyn.\protect\cite{BugsBunny}}
> >                                                    ^^^^^^^^
> [...]
> >(i.e., it might be wise to include \protect\label as well
> >if you insist on including the \label in the \caption).
> 
>      The first bit of advice (\protect\cite{}) is sound, but
> \protect\label is not necessary because \label is specifically kludged
> to work correctly inside of \caption{}.  I have no idea if unnecessary
> \protect declarations have any harmful effects.

Except that they create ``invisible space'' and the kludge is far less than
perfect.  The apparently-superfluous \protect does matter for a few
interesting applications.  As Andrew and I experimented on this, it became
apparent that moving the \label outside (but adjacent to) the \caption was
the fix, i.e., changing \caption{\label{something}This is the caption text}
to \caption{This is the caption text}\label{something} worked and fixed the
problem above.

Regards,   George
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