[XeTeX] is this a bug?

[Herbert Schulz]

On Jul 5, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Mike Maxwell wrote:

> The following minimalist document:
> -------------
> \documentclass{report}
> \begin{document}
> \paragraph \begin{table}[H]
> \end{table}
> \end{document}
> -------------
>
> results in the error msg:
> -------------
> ! Argument of \begin has an extra }.
> <inserted text>
>                \par
> l.5 \paragraph \begin{t
>                       able}[H]
> -------------
>
> Avoiding the error msg requires either some text in the \paragraph,  
> or else \paragraph {}.
>
> Is this correct behavior?  Why is the above considered wrong?
>
> The above doc is of course not good for much except illustrating the  
> problem.  The original had text in the paragraph, but the text  
> followed the table.  Perhaps not the usual way to start a paragraph,  
> but no more *wrong* than using a preposition to end a sentence with.
>
> (And how do these error msgs get generated, anyway?  Why the  
> carriage return(?) between the 't' and the 'able' of 'table'?)
> -- 
>   Mike Maxwell
>   What good is a universe without somebody around to look at it?
>   --Robert Dicke, Princeton physicist


Howdy,

The \paragraph command is NOT meant to start a new paragraph (use a  
blank line or \par) but is a forth level sectioning command (\section,  
\subsection, \subsubsection, \paragraph, \subparagraph) which takes an  
argument so things are getting messed up.

Good Luck,

Herb Schulz
(herbs at wideopenwest dot com)