LaTeX!

I will quote myself on IRC at work to illustrate this week's events surrounding my thesis:

Monday, 11 Jul 2005:
15:52 < Kira> maar ik heb helaas geen tijd om me nog in LaTeX te verdiepen om het allemaal daar in te doen

Loosely translated: But unfortunately I don't have time to delve into LaTeX in order to do it (my Thesis) all in there.

Guess what? I was wrong

Monday afternoon I wasn't going to, Tuesday afternoon I had my Thesis all in LaTeX including contents, bibliography and pdf bookmarks, and today I'm continuing to customize it with growing enthousiasm and ready to lay the final hand on it contents-wise.

I did have a few problems here and there I'd like to share so others can benefit.

When running pdflatex at some point the following error kept occuring, with each run.

! Illegal parameter number in definition of \Hy@tempa.

                  u
l.201

! Illegal parameter number in definition of \@tempa.

                  u
l.201

Though I could just press and continue, it was quite annoying. And I couldn't find out what it was. The only pointer I had was the l.199 which I figured was a line number. But in my .tex, nothing appeared to be a problem. In non of the other files I could find something around that number that might explain the problem. Finally, when googling for the error message, I found a page giving the final clue. It was a # in one of the urls in my bibliography it didn't like. I removed the # and presto! Errorfree running.

More to come....