Document Classes ⇒ New Environment with corresponding Bookmarks

[tumerictj]

Hi All,

I have been using LaTeX for a while, but this is my first post.

I would like to make a numbered "Exercise" environment that generates (via the hyperref package) a corresponding bookmark "Exercise #_" in the PDF output file.

I know how to define the envioronment and how to manually create a bookmark. But what is tripping me up is

1. Linking the bookmark creation to the \begin{exercise} command
2. Matching the bookmark title with the environment title (e.g. "Exercise 5").

Thank you in advance for any advice on this issue.

[cgnieder]

Would you like to show us how you're defining the environment? Help could then be more specific.

Best

[tumerictj]

I'm using

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 \theoremstyle{plain} \newtheorem{ex}{Exercise}

with AMS and hyperref packages in the preamble.

As it is,

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 \begin{exercise}[blaBlaBla]
 ...
 \end{exercise}

works nicely to name and number exercises, but I would like pdfLaTeX to make a bookmark called "Exercise #whatever," (I don't care if the name "blaBlaBla" shows up) as it does for the \section command. Ideally, the solution would work even if I changed the numbering level of the environment (e.g. "2.2" instead of "2").

Thank you for the time.

[cgnieder]

I would wrap another environment around the one defined through »\newtheorem« and use hyperref's »\pdfbookmark[<level>]{<name>}{<label>}« inside it. Something like

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\newtheorem{ex}{Exercise}
\newenvironment{exercise}[1]{%
  \begin{ex}[#1]%
  \def\exname{Exercise \theex #1}%
  \def\exlabel{ex:\theex}%
  \pdfbookmark[2]{\exname}{\exlabel}%
}{%
  \end{ex}\ignorespaces
}

[tumerictj]

Clever.... This solves my question.

Thank You!