Document Classes ⇒ hyperref | Issue with custom Document Class

[jibberalan]

Hi,

I am currently trying to use my school's thesis document class, however it will not work with the hyperref package. I have contacted the graduate school, but no clue if I'll get any help from them... Anyways, I have attached a minimum code example below that uses their document class and macros file. It will compile great until you add the hyperref package. The error has to do with the \contentsline command... Any help figuring out why this is breaking it would be greatly appreciated!! Thanks!

[Juanjo]

The problem comes from the \addtocontents commands included in thesis.sty. They write \contentsline commands in the toc, lof and lot files. But this command has an extra argument when hyperref is loaded. Hence, when LaTeX reads the auxiliary files, it detects that such an argument is missing, hence the error.

The solution is simple: search for \addtocontents in thesis.cls and replace each {\protect\relax}} by {\protect\relax}{}}. You should have the lines:

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\addtocontents{lof}{\protect\contentsline {part}
	{\protect\figurenameToC}{\protect\relax}{}}
\addtocontents{lot}{\protect\contentsline {part}
	{\protect\tablenameToC}{\protect\relax}{}}
\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline {part}
	{\protect\chapternameToC}{\protect\relax}{}}

and also

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\addtocontents{toc}{\protect\contentsline {part}
		{\protect\appendixnameToC}{\protect\relax}{}}

Note the extra pair of braces at the end of every \addtocontents. It has no effect if hyperref is not loaded, but it provides the extra argument for \contentsline, otherwise.

If the above code works, contact your school in order to improve thesis.cls.

I also suggest you to treat your macros file as a package. To this end, rename macros.tex to macros.sty, add the line

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\RequirePackage{macros}

at the top of macros.sty, delete \input macros.tex in the source file and write \usepackage{macros} instead (in the preamble, before \begin{document}).

[schremmer]

I have the same error with the book class and I don't think I want to change that. So, might there be some other way?


Hopeful regards
--schremmer

[localghost]

I have the same error with the book class and I don't think I want to change that. So, might there be some other way? […]

For an adequate problem description and in order to prevent other from guesswork kindly prepare a self-contained and minimal example that clearly reproduces the undesired behaviour.


Thorsten