Text Formatting ⇒ Latex code in Adobe Acrobat Bookmarks

[gkl]

Dear All,

I am writing my thesis and one of my sections has LaTeX code in its title (let's say I have $\alpha$ test). When I compile the file to get the pdf document using pdflatex, everything works fine except that the Adobe's bookmark says test rather than the full title.

Is there any way to remedy this?

Thanks,
George

[frabjous]

Bookmarks are not Acrobat specific.

You will probably need to use the \texorpdfstring command defined by the hyperref package. (See page 17 of its documentation, or this thread, or this thread.)

You'd probably need to spell out the word "alpha":

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\section{\texorpdfstring{$\alpha$ test}{alpha test}}

If you compile with XeLaTeX and your editor is unicode-compliant, however, you can use:

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\section{\texorpdfstring{$\alpha$ test}{α test}}

Unfortunately, that doesn't seem to work with pdf(la)tex, even if you use the inputenc package.