hyperref and \verb

[Fernando Gouvea]

Interesting. I was using the book class. Without hyperref, it worked 
without a glitch, not even a warning was issued. It definitely doesn't 
work with hyperref. I'll just need to rewrite, I guess. Luckily, there 
are only a couple of affected footnotes.

Fernando

On 1/29/2020 12:44 PM, Peter Wilson wrote:
> Normally you cannot use \verb in a footnote. However the memoir class 
> (if you are using it) provides a \verbfootnote command which does 
> allow \verb to be used in the footnote's text.
>
> Peter W.
>
>
> On 29/01/20 14:57, Fernando Gouvea wrote:
>>
>> I am working on a book, and the publisher has just (as I was 
>> finishing) asked me to use \hyperref to make links active on the 
>> electronic version. Adding \usepackage{hyperref} and making no other 
>> changes, I get a new error message:
>>
>>> ! LaTeX Error: \verb illegal in command argument.
>>>
>>> See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
>>> Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
>>>  ...
>> This happens because I used something like \verb|Qp| in a footnote. 
>> Despite the error message, the resulting pdf looks ok. Of course, I 
>> haven't actually tried using any hyperref functionality yet. Can 
>> anyone explain what is going on?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Fernando
>>
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>>
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>
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Dept. of Mathematics and Statistics
Colby College
5836 Mayflower Hill
Waterville, ME 04901

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