[texhax] expansion in makeindex

Uwe Lück uwe.lueck at web.de
Sat May 27 12:16:23 CEST 2006


At 04:50 27.05.06, Micha Hofri wrote:

>      inserting \protect in front of the \mathbb in the index entry
>solved a long-standing problem --- thanks.  But why does it have this
>effect?

... well, may depend on where \mathbb is from,
maybe that \mathbb is fragile and the preceding \protect
delays expansion of \mathbb until typesetting mode.

Cheers -- Uwe.  



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