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Just wanted to say hi let you all know how stoked I am to be a member of a LaTeX subject forum. Honestly everyone seems to ask me about their TeX related woes its nice to have a place to bounce some ideas of once and a while.

Best,

nate iverson

Many thanks to Heiko Oberdiek for kindly answering my emails on this matter. Here's the solution I managed. Since the dissertation standards of my university have very limited front matter I don't need to worry about chapters and sections before the \mainmatter but the page numbers will be offset ...

I have found a partial solution with the bookmark package part of oberdiek's collection:

http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/oberdiek/

Now for sections that do not appear in the toc I can add a pdf bookmark using the bookmark command as follows:


\newenvironment{abstract ...

I created and have been maintaining the document class below for years:

http://www-math.bgsu.edu/~inathan/bgsu_latex_class.html

Apparently the person in charge of making sure the manuscripts look okay started deleting all the beautiful pdfbookmarks because she wanted the chapter bookmarks to link ...