[texhax] Trying to find the /right/ piece of LaTeX documentation.]

[Pavel Minev Penev]

On Fri, Jul 09, 2004 at 11:16:49AM -0600, Peter Hutnick wrote:
> >\newcommand{\placefig}[2]{
[...]
> >\def\@captype{Figure}
> >\def\@captionof#1#2{{\def\@captype{#1}#2}}
[...]
> Both of the chunks of code are in my preamble.  When I do:
> 
> \placefig{
> \captionof{figure}{\caption{\label{1}The Plane.}}}
[...]
> }
> 
> LaTeX complains:
> 
>    ! Undefined control sequence.
>    <argument> ... ][s]{\marginparwidth }  \captionof
>                                                      {figure}{\caption
>    {\label ...
>    l.971 \begin
>                {figure}[htp]

I think it is quite obvious that you defined ``\@captionof'', but never
``\captionof''.

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