Multiple anchored frames create giant anchor marks

As shown below, if I put two frame anchors next to each other in my figure caption, the second one shows up with a giant anchor. Anyone else seen this? Anyone know how to get the second one to go back to a normal size? I can insert a space, but that plays hob with my table of contents generation.

randolph549 wrote:
As shown below, if I put two frame anchors next to each other in my figure caption, the second one shows up with a giant anchor. Anyone else seen this? Anyone know how to get the second one to go back to a normal size? I can insert a space, but that plays hob with my table of contents generation.
It's not clear to me why you need the two anchors adjacent to each other. Have you tried separating them, perhaps one at the beginning and the other at the end of a word, or at the beginning and end of the paragraph? This separation shouldn't affect your TOC.
Another possibility is separating the anchors with a non-joiner character - it's zero width and should not affect the TOC.
HTH
Regards,
Peter
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