[texhax] \emph in

[Heiko Oberdiek]

On Fri, Apr 08, 2011 at 11:48:35PM +0200, Wolfgang Lorenz wrote:

> While writing some kind of saving mechanism using the \edef macro I
> came to a point, at which I do not know further:
> 
> Here is a rather minimal example of my problem:
> 
> %%% edeftest.tex %%%
> \documentclass{book}
> \begin{document}
> 	\edef\e{\emph{text}}
> \end{document}
> %%% EOF %%%
> 
> This short document gives an error message at line 3:
> > l.3     \edef\e{\emph{text}

Use \protected at edef\e{\emph{test}}, then LaTeX's
protecting mechanisms (\DeclareRobustCommand, \protect, ...)
have a chance.

Perhaps there is a better solution, but I don't know the
purpose of this exercise.

Yours sincerely
  Heiko Oberdiek