Special characters in LaTeX table caption

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Zequj picture Zequj · Mar 23, 2009 · Viewed 7.2k times · Source

When I include \overline{x} or other special characters in the caption text of a table, the whole caption text won't appear at all. When I put simple text without special characters, the caption works fine. How can I include special characters in the caption?

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Adam Jaskiewicz picture Adam Jaskiewicz · Mar 23, 2009

Are you putting $ around the maths? I.e.:

\caption{This is a caption with maths $\overline{x}$ in it.}

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