[Tex/LaTex] Change the name of a bookmark

beamerbookmarkshyperref

I have long titles for sections in a TeX-Beamer presentation. By default, hyperref uses the name of the section for the pdfbookmark. This means the bookmark is too long. I would like to use a shorter name in the bookmark. Does somebody know to to do that? Let's say I have

\section{Algorithm to determine firms' entry and exit into the market}

By default the bookmark is the same name of the section, so it will also be long. I would like to have a shorter bookmark, like "Entry and Exit". I don't how to do that.

Best Answer

\texorpdfstring can be used, the first argument is the usual section text, the second argument the text for the bookmark:

\section{\texorpdfstring{Long version}{Short version}}

If the short version should also be used for the table of contents, the optional argument of \section can be used:

\section[Short version]{Long version}

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Here is a solution that patches an auxiliary macro in \frametitle, adding code that adds a bookmark and table-of-contents line as if it were a subsection (you can just comment this out if not wanted):

\documentclass{beamer}

\AtBeginSection{\frame{\tableofcontents[currentsection]}}

\usepackage{bookmark}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
% save the current definition of \beamer@@frametitle
\let\nobookmarkbeamer@@frametitle\beamer@@frametitle
% then patch it to do the bookmarks and/or TOC entries
\apptocmd{\beamer@@frametitle}{%
  % keep this to add the frame title to the TOC at the "subsection level"
  \addtocontents{toc}{\protect\beamer@subsectionintoc{\the\c@section}{0}{#1}{\the\c@page}{\the\c@part}%
        {\the\beamer@tocsectionnumber}}%
  % keep this line to add a bookmark that shows up in the PDF TOC at the subsection level
  \bookmark[page=\the\c@page,level=3]{#1}%
  }%
  {\message{** patching of \string\beamer@@frametitle succeeded **}}%
  {\errmessage{** patching of \string\beamer@@frametitle failed **}}%

\pretocmd{\beamer@checknoslide}{%
  % ensure the bookmark is not created if the slide is filtered out
  \let\beamer@@frametitle\nobookmarkbeamer@@frametitle
  }%
  {\message{** patching of \string\beamer@checknoslide succeeded **}}%
  {\errmessage{** patching of \string\beamer@checknoslide failed **}}%

\makeatother



\begin{document}



\section{First Section}

\begin{frame}{First frame}Text\end{frame}

\begin{frame}{Second frame}Text\end{frame}



\section{Second Section}

\begin{frame}{Third frame}Text\end{frame}

\begin{frame}\frametitle{Fourth frame}Text\end{frame}

\begin{frame}<handout>\frametitle{Fifth frame}Text\end{frame}


\end{document}

I had to dig around in beamerbasesection.sty to figure that out. But it seems to work.

Output

EDIT. (by cyberSingularity): Now prevents unwanted bookmarks when the slide is not shown by also patching \beamer@checknoslide, and provided an additional frame to test.

Note: if there are frames with multiple slides (e.g. due to \pauses), you may also be interested in this follow up question.

[Tex/LaTex] How to make \citetitle work in a hyperref section bookmark

You can profit of my usebib package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage[backend=biber]{biblatex}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@ARTWORK{gizapyramid,
  title = {Pyramids at Gizeh},
  year = {ca.\@ 2500 BCE}
}
\end{filecontents}
\addbibresource{\jobname.bib}

\usepackage[hidelinks]{hyperref}

\usepackage{usebib}
\bibinput{\jobname}

\begin{document}

\section{\texorpdfstring%
{\citetitle{gizapyramid} (\citedate{gizapyramid})}%
{\usebibentry{gizapyramid}{title}}}


\end{document}

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