Document Classes ⇒ memoir's sidebar, addcontents, and hyperref

[magister]

Hi --

I'm using memoir's sidebar feature extensively in a book, and I want the sidebars to appear in the TOC, so I have things like this:

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\sidebar{
\phantomsection\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\hspace{.3in}Tech Note: Supplementary Characters} 
sidebar text } 

I'm also using hyperref to generate PDF bookmarks. The bookmarks for the sidebars all have an extra space in front of them, which is caused by the inclusion of the \hspace command; if I remove that, the bookmarks look fine but the sidebar TOC entries appear at the left margin, not indented correctly. (In other words, I have a TOC entry like "1.3 Subsection title" and I want the TOC sidebar entry to be indented to align with the actual 'Subsection title', not at the margin where the numerals 1.3 and so forth are.) Does anyone know a better way than using \hspace to get the indents, or a way to remove the spaces before the bookmarks?

Thanks - David

[frabjous]

Hyperref (see the manual page 17), defines a command which presents two alternatives, one to put in the TeX file and another in the PDF bookmarks:

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\texorpdfstring{TEXstring}{PDFstring}

So in your case, you might use:

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\texorpdfstring{\hspace{.3in}}{}

To produce an \hspace in the TeX file and nothing in the bookmarks.

Is that the best solution to your problem? Probably not, but it's hard to know how to address the spacing problem otherwise without a minimal working example. I was struck however that you're using \addcontentsline{toc}{section} rather than \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection} given the description of the problem which follows.

[magister]

Frabjous,

Thank you for the suggestions and reference to the hyperref manual. I'll study them and see what happens.

As for the section/subsection thing: my book has chapters and sections (memoir's default), and I chose not to show subsections in the TOC, so the TOC looks like:

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Chapter 1: Blah blah
    1.1    Section One
    1.2    Section Two
           Sidebar: First One

So that's why I used \addcontentsline{toc}{section}. Just now, as an experiment, I tried subsection rather than section, without the \hspace. It mostly worked; I say "mostly" because the sidebar entries were just slightly less indented than the section entries, about a point or so. I guess hyperref doesn't know about chapters (or I need to tell it explicitly what my various levels are). This is the most complex book I've ever done, so I'm new at things like messing around with the TOC.

Thanks - David

[magister]

Hi frabjous,

Your suggestion of \texorpdfstring{\hspace{.3in}}{} works just fine!

Thanks again - David