Re: author causes error with amsart
> > there is a change.) You might want to let the AMS folks know that
> > the behavior of the \author command has changed, in case they
> > didn't change the behavior on purpose.
>
> Okay, I will ask them on this issue later.
I received the reply from them.
It seems a side effect of other changes and we need to add
\protect before \\ (yes, \\ is fragile commands) as
\author{Atsuhito Kohda \protect\\ Tokushima University}
and it really works fine.
This will be described in future amsclass.faq as follows
From: AMS Technical Support <tech-support@ams.org>
Subject: Re: \author command of amsart (ver 2.03)
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:44:22 -0400 (EDT)
> Answer: With version 2 of the AMS document classes, the home-grown routine
> for uppercasing titles, author names and other elements was replaced by a
> new one by David Carlisle which is in general more reliable and takes
> better account of math inclusions. However, it performs an extra expansion
> on the target string, with the result that \author now behaves like other
> commands with moving arguments. \\ is a fragile command. You need to
> apply \protect to any fragile commands in \author, in the same way it
> needs to be applied in, e.g., a \section title.
Regards, 2000.6.1
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Debian JP Developer - much more I18N of Debian
Atsuhito Kohda <kohda@pm.tokushima-u.ac.jp>
Department of Math., Tokushima Univ.
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