General ⇒ \addcontentsline{toc} &behavior of TOC-links & PDF-bookmarks

[neGODnick]

Hi!

I use hyperref package and known command to add unnumbered chapters into Table of Contents, for example:

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\chapter*{Введение} 
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Введение}

But clicking on their links in TOC or on the bookmarks opens the page on level below the chapter title, chapter title is unvisible. Normal chapters ("\chapter" without *) show the titles in the top of PDF-viewer window.

How to resolve this problem?

[chro]

Hi,

I had the same problem;

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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Введение}
\chapter*{Введение}

worked for me.

(source: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2htm ... =tocbibind )

regards, chris

[neGODnick]

Great!

This is exactly that I need! Now all toc-links and bookmarks open pages properly.

Thank you very, very much, Chris!

[gasatanig]

I love you!!

I had a similar problem: I wanted to have entries plus links in my TOC, which should point in the middle of the text without any \subsection close to it.

I had the following combination in one of my userdefined commands:

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\pdfbookmark[2]{#1}{#1}
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{\hyperlink{#1}{#1}}

resulting in dozens of errors of the form:

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"Undefined control sequence. \hyper@@link"

the trick with \phantomsection mentioned above did the job:

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\pdfbookmark[2]{#1}{#1}
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{#1}

works perfectly!

i think i just had to let the hyperref package do its job undisturbed!

Thanks a lot! gas

[neGODnick]

Hello, people!

I'm sorry, but I have to reopen my question! The code from Chris works everywhere except the page of indexes. In LyX it goes as \printindex{}. Also the alternate code based on \pdfbookmark is not helpful:

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\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{Алфавитный указатель}
\printindex{}

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\cleardoublepage
\pdfbookmark[1]{Алфавитный указатель}{indexname}
\phantomsection
\printindex{}

Besides the \addtocontents{toc}{Алфавитный указатель} command if I try

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\cleardoublepage
\pdfbookmark[1]{Алфавитный указатель}{indexname}
\phantomsection
\addtocontents{toc}{Алфавитный указатель}
\printindex{}

gives an error messages like

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LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.

or

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I can't write on file `____________.pdf'. 

(note that I have closed the PDF-file compiled before, so it's not blocked with PDF-viewer). The "descriptions" of errors looks like

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...{\cyri }\IeC {\cyryu }}{231}{section*.26}
                                                  
Try typing  <return>  to proceed.
If that doesn't work, type  X <return>  to quit.

Could anybody help me?

[Juanjo]

Hi neGODnick,

The following code generates a pdf file where all links work as expected:

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\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{lipsum} % Just for getting some text
\usepackage{hyperref}

\usepackage{makeidx}
\makeindex

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents

\chapter{One}

Some text\index{text}.
\lipsum[1]

\chapter{Two}

More text\index{text}.
\lipsum[1]

\cleardoublepage
\phantomsection
\addcontentsline{toc}{chapter}{\indexname}
\printindex

\end{document}

So I don't guess what it may be wrong in your code. Please, provide a minimal working example, as the code above.

[neGODnick]

Hi, Juanjo!

Your minimal code (I have tried it) generates the PDF with the same problems as I described above (see also the 1st topic): clicking opens chapters at the level of it's titles, but the index page opens at the level of the text (list of entires) below the title "Index"; "Index" is hided under the top of PDF-viewer window.

[Juanjo]

Hi, Juanjo!

Your minimal code (I have tried it) generates the PDF with the same problems as I described above (see also the 1st topic): clicking opens chapters at the level of it's titles, but the index page opens at the level of the text (list of entires) below the title "Index"; "Index" is hided under the top of PDF-viewer window.

Yes, you're right. I had misunderstood the problem. Anyway, let's explore a different approach. In a recent thread, I provided a redefinition of theindex environment for the article class in order to write indexes with three or more columns. In the case of the book class, here is the code:

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\usepackage{multicol}
\makeatletter
\renewenvironment{theindex}
  {\if@twocolumn
      \@restonecolfalse
   \else
      \@restonecoltrue
   \fi
   \setlength{\columnseprule}{0pt}
   \setlength{\columnsep}{35pt}
   \begin{multicols}{3}[\chapter*{\indexname}]
   \markboth{\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
            {\MakeUppercase\indexname}%
   \thispagestyle{plain}
   \setlength{\parindent}{0pt}
   \setlength{\parskip}{0pt plus 0.3pt}
   \relax
   \let\item\@idxitem}%
  {\end{multicols}\if@restonecol\onecolumn\else\clearpage\fi}
\makeatother

Write begin{multicols}{2} for a classical index with two columns. If you add this code to my above minimal example, I think that things are now going on. Am I right?

[neGODnick]

Hi, Juanjo!

I'm sorry for my answer delay. Yes, you're right — this code works fine (and helpful for other reason)!

It is very interesting, what are the general principes, rules of links/bookmark behavior? What are the dependences? What exactly in your code have an influence on the condition? So, and how to resolve such problem in future?