[texhax] whitespace before \end{figure} command

[Lars Madsen]

Brian Papa :

> I'm getting errors if I have any whitespace before the \end{figure}
> command in my captions.  I'm wondering if this is normal behavior and
> there should never be whitespace before a command like this, or if it is
> an indication of some other problem?
>
> The following works ok:
> \begin{figure}
>  \noindent\includegraphics[width=40pc,angle=0]{./figures/figure01.eps}
>  \caption{Enter the caption for your figure here.  Repeat as
>  necessary for each of your figures. Create a figures directory and
>  place all figures in that directory.}\label{f1}
> \end{figure}
>
> but space added before the "\end{figure} command result in errors:
> \begin{figure}
>  \noindent\includegraphics[width=40pc,angle=0]{./figures/figure01.eps}
>  \caption{Enter the caption for your figure here.  Repeat as
>  necessary for each of your figures. Create a figures directory and
>  place all figures in that directory.}\label{f1}
>    \end{figure}
>
> The errors given are a bit unclear to me:
> ! Fle ended while scanning use of \next
> <inserted text>
>    \par
> !Emergency stop
>
> In the second case, any reference to figure 1 just appears as question
> marks.
>
> Any insight you can provide would be helpful; hopefully I'm not missing
> something too obvious.
>

could you please provide a minimal example, this is not normal, so we need 
to know which class you are using, etc.


/daleif