Text Formatting ⇒ MakeUppercase, hyperref, and addcontentsline

[jaykemper]

Is there a workaround to the problem this creates?

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\MakeUppercase{section}}
\end{document}

yields

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Package hyperref Warning: old toc file detected, not used; run LaTeX again.

! Undefined control sequence.
\MakeUppercase ...rcaseIsNotSupportedInPdfStrings 
                                                  
l.9 ...line{toc}{section}{\MakeUppercase{section}}

If the hyperref package is commented out, it builds fine with a table of contents containing "SECTION"

[jaykemper]

Found a solution, use \texorpdfstring with an empty second argument.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{hyperref}

\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\texorpdfstring{\MakeUppercase{section}}{}}
\end{document}

[Stefan Kottwitz]

It works with \uppercase:

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\tableofcontents
\addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\uppercase{section}}
\end{document}

Stefan

[jaykemper]

I guess that does work, but it gives this message:

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Package hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string (PDFDocEncoding):
(hyperref)                removing `\uppercase' on input line 5.

But I guess you can ignore the messages.