On 2011-07-07, Richard Heck wrote: > On 07/07/2011 03:12 AM, Julio Rojas wrote: >> I had exactly this same problem a couple of days ago and I had to >> leave the part after the "#" sign out.
> I think the # has to be escaped somehow...? Yes. >From the Docutils latex writer:: # We need to escape #, \, and % if we use the URL in a command. special_chars = {ord('#'): ur'\#', ord('%'): ur'\%', ord('\\'): ur'\\', } # problematic chars double caret and unbalanced braces: if href.find('^^') != -1 or self.has_unbalanced_braces(href): self.error( 'External link "%s" not supported by LaTeX.\n' ' (Must not contain "^^" or unbalanced braces.)' % href) Günter