Dear Dimitri, Doxygen 1.2.18-20021030 appears to translate things like -------------------------- <DL> <DT> [BGP99] </DT> <DD> ... -------------------------- into LaTeX like -------------------------- \begin{description} \item[\[BGP99\] ] ... -------------------------- The problem is that \[ and \], in LaTeX, delimit math display mode so that the translation is not valid. I would suggest to translate <DT> something </DT> to \item[\hbox{latex(something)}] where latex(something) encodes all the required escaping (remembering that `[' and `]' need not be escaped). To see why the \hbox (or something with similar effect) is required, try running latex on, e.g., \documentclass{article} \begin{document} \begin{itemize} \item[\hbox{[a]}] b \item[[a]] b \end{itemize} \end{document} All the best Roberto -- Prof. Roberto Bagnara Computer Science Group Department of Mathematics, University of Parma, Italy http://www.cs.unipr.it/~bagnara/ mailto:bagnara@cs.unipr.it