PDF bookmarks don't get proper formatting

In my document, I have two chapter titles with em commands and --- dashes, which get correctly converted to italics and em-dash in the text. But the PDF bookmarks are not created properly:

em: if I use syntax emtext, bookmark is created with only text (as expected). If I use em text, this entire string is used as-is in PDF bookmark.

---: conversion to em-dash never occurs.

How can I get em and --- properly in PDF bookmarks? I don't need the bookmark gets styled. Below a code sample and screenshot (in SumatraPDF):

setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]
starttext
chapter[title=em Chapter --- a note]

Some paragraph.

sectionem A year from monday --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

chapter[title=emChapter --- another note]

Some paragraph.

sectionemSilence --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

stoptext

Screenshot (note bookmarks with --- and em appearing):

Screenshot

edited Dec 27 '18 at 7:05

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

I'm not sure if the PDF format even supports markup in bookmarks, but if you just want to get rid of the LaTeX commands there, use texorpdfstringLaTeX document textPDF bookmarks text from the hyperref package.
– siracusa
Dec 27 '18 at 5:02

@siracusa: I am no ConTeXt user, but I doubt that this format uses hyperref at all, but you're right about the possible issues with markup in bookmark. Only a few styles are possible for bookmark contents, such as bold or color, and it depends on the pdf viewer if this markup is displayed correctly
– Christian Hupfer
Dec 27 '18 at 5:09

It is either em ... or emph.... In the second chapter you are using em... which will have the wrong behaviour.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:28

@ChristianHupfer You can choose between two styles, italic and bold, but they apply to the entry as a whole. Also style and color are only available from PDF 1.4 onwards and marked optional, so support is probably limited to Adobe Reader.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:43

@ChristianHupfer I didn't want to style the bookmark itself. I just wanted to get a clean bookmark, without those em ... parts. Sorry, I'll clarify the question.
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:02

|
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In my document, I have two chapter titles with em commands and --- dashes, which get correctly converted to italics and em-dash in the text. But the PDF bookmarks are not created properly:

em: if I use syntax emtext, bookmark is created with only text (as expected). If I use em text, this entire string is used as-is in PDF bookmark.

---: conversion to em-dash never occurs.

How can I get em and --- properly in PDF bookmarks? I don't need the bookmark gets styled. Below a code sample and screenshot (in SumatraPDF):

setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]
starttext
chapter[title=em Chapter --- a note]

Some paragraph.

sectionem A year from monday --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

chapter[title=emChapter --- another note]

Some paragraph.

sectionemSilence --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

stoptext

Screenshot (note bookmarks with --- and em appearing):

Screenshot

edited Dec 27 '18 at 7:05

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

I'm not sure if the PDF format even supports markup in bookmarks, but if you just want to get rid of the LaTeX commands there, use texorpdfstringLaTeX document textPDF bookmarks text from the hyperref package.
– siracusa
Dec 27 '18 at 5:02

@siracusa: I am no ConTeXt user, but I doubt that this format uses hyperref at all, but you're right about the possible issues with markup in bookmark. Only a few styles are possible for bookmark contents, such as bold or color, and it depends on the pdf viewer if this markup is displayed correctly
– Christian Hupfer
Dec 27 '18 at 5:09

It is either em ... or emph.... In the second chapter you are using em... which will have the wrong behaviour.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:28

@ChristianHupfer You can choose between two styles, italic and bold, but they apply to the entry as a whole. Also style and color are only available from PDF 1.4 onwards and marked optional, so support is probably limited to Adobe Reader.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:43

@ChristianHupfer I didn't want to style the bookmark itself. I just wanted to get a clean bookmark, without those em ... parts. Sorry, I'll clarify the question.
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:02

|
show 1 more comment

In my document, I have two chapter titles with em commands and --- dashes, which get correctly converted to italics and em-dash in the text. But the PDF bookmarks are not created properly:

em: if I use syntax emtext, bookmark is created with only text (as expected). If I use em text, this entire string is used as-is in PDF bookmark.

---: conversion to em-dash never occurs.

How can I get em and --- properly in PDF bookmarks? I don't need the bookmark gets styled. Below a code sample and screenshot (in SumatraPDF):

setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]
starttext
chapter[title=em Chapter --- a note]

Some paragraph.

sectionem A year from monday --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

chapter[title=emChapter --- another note]

Some paragraph.

sectionemSilence --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

stoptext

Screenshot (note bookmarks with --- and em appearing):

Screenshot

edited Dec 27 '18 at 7:05

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

In my document, I have two chapter titles with em commands and --- dashes, which get correctly converted to italics and em-dash in the text. But the PDF bookmarks are not created properly:

em: if I use syntax emtext, bookmark is created with only text (as expected). If I use em text, this entire string is used as-is in PDF bookmark.

---: conversion to em-dash never occurs.

How can I get em and --- properly in PDF bookmarks? I don't need the bookmark gets styled. Below a code sample and screenshot (in SumatraPDF):

setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]
starttext
chapter[title=em Chapter --- a note]

Some paragraph.

sectionem A year from monday --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

chapter[title=emChapter --- another note]

Some paragraph.

sectionemSilence --- from John Cage

Some paragraph.

stoptext

Screenshot (note bookmarks with --- and em appearing):

Screenshot

pdf context bookmarks

edited Dec 27 '18 at 7:05

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

edited Dec 27 '18 at 7:05

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

edited Dec 27 '18 at 7:05

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

asked Dec 27 '18 at 4:24

José de Mattos Neto

677

I'm not sure if the PDF format even supports markup in bookmarks, but if you just want to get rid of the LaTeX commands there, use texorpdfstringLaTeX document textPDF bookmarks text from the hyperref package.
– siracusa
Dec 27 '18 at 5:02

@siracusa: I am no ConTeXt user, but I doubt that this format uses hyperref at all, but you're right about the possible issues with markup in bookmark. Only a few styles are possible for bookmark contents, such as bold or color, and it depends on the pdf viewer if this markup is displayed correctly
– Christian Hupfer
Dec 27 '18 at 5:09

It is either em ... or emph.... In the second chapter you are using em... which will have the wrong behaviour.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:28

@ChristianHupfer You can choose between two styles, italic and bold, but they apply to the entry as a whole. Also style and color are only available from PDF 1.4 onwards and marked optional, so support is probably limited to Adobe Reader.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:43

@ChristianHupfer I didn't want to style the bookmark itself. I just wanted to get a clean bookmark, without those em ... parts. Sorry, I'll clarify the question.
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:02

|
show 1 more comment

I'm not sure if the PDF format even supports markup in bookmarks, but if you just want to get rid of the LaTeX commands there, use texorpdfstringLaTeX document textPDF bookmarks text from the hyperref package.
– siracusa
Dec 27 '18 at 5:02

@siracusa: I am no ConTeXt user, but I doubt that this format uses hyperref at all, but you're right about the possible issues with markup in bookmark. Only a few styles are possible for bookmark contents, such as bold or color, and it depends on the pdf viewer if this markup is displayed correctly
– Christian Hupfer
Dec 27 '18 at 5:09

It is either em ... or emph.... In the second chapter you are using em... which will have the wrong behaviour.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:28

@ChristianHupfer You can choose between two styles, italic and bold, but they apply to the entry as a whole. Also style and color are only available from PDF 1.4 onwards and marked optional, so support is probably limited to Adobe Reader.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:43

@ChristianHupfer I didn't want to style the bookmark itself. I just wanted to get a clean bookmark, without those em ... parts. Sorry, I'll clarify the question.
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:02

I'm not sure if the PDF format even supports markup in bookmarks, but if you just want to get rid of the LaTeX commands there, use texorpdfstringLaTeX document textPDF bookmarks text from the hyperref package.
– siracusa
Dec 27 '18 at 5:02

@siracusa: I am no ConTeXt user, but I doubt that this format uses hyperref at all, but you're right about the possible issues with markup in bookmark. Only a few styles are possible for bookmark contents, such as bold or color, and it depends on the pdf viewer if this markup is displayed correctly
– Christian Hupfer
Dec 27 '18 at 5:09

It is either em ... or emph.... In the second chapter you are using em... which will have the wrong behaviour.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:28

@ChristianHupfer You can choose between two styles, italic and bold, but they apply to the entry as a whole. Also style and color are only available from PDF 1.4 onwards and marked optional, so support is probably limited to Adobe Reader.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 5:43

@ChristianHupfer I didn't want to style the bookmark itself. I just wanted to get a clean bookmark, without those em ... parts. Sorry, I'll clarify the question.
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:02

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To expand all macros in the bookmarks, you have to add

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]

in your document. I don't think you can apply ligatures in the bookmarks, because ligatures are part of the font. What you can do is, instead of --- either use the Unicode character — (U+2014 EM DASH) directly or the corresponding control sequence emdash.

Also, when you use tagging, I think you have to use the start...stop pairs for chapter, section, etc. At least pdfinfo shows me wrong nesting if I don't use start...stop.

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]
setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]

starttext

startchapter[title=em Chapter — a note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=em A year from monday — from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter


startchapter[title=emphChapter emdash another note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=emphSilence emdash from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter

stoptext

$ pdfinfo -struct-text test.pdf
Div
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— a note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1.1"
 H (block)
 "A year from monday— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— another note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2.1"
 H (block)
 "Silence— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."

edited Dec 27 '18 at 5:46

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

It works after using enabledirectives! If I'm not wrong, --- is not a font ligature, but a TeX ligature (enabled via tlig), so I thought it was a macro internally. Anyway, just em is corrected; --- still shows as three hyphens. But at least I can use the symbol directly, as you explained. Thank you!
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:00

@JosédeMattosNeto A ligature is a ligature and will only be applied when a font is rendered which will never take place for a bookmark.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 7:30

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To expand all macros in the bookmarks, you have to add

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]

Also, when you use tagging, I think you have to use the start...stop pairs for chapter, section, etc. At least pdfinfo shows me wrong nesting if I don't use start...stop.

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]
setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]

starttext

startchapter[title=em Chapter — a note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=em A year from monday — from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter


startchapter[title=emphChapter emdash another note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=emphSilence emdash from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter

stoptext

$ pdfinfo -struct-text test.pdf
Div
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— a note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1.1"
 H (block)
 "A year from monday— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— another note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2.1"
 H (block)
 "Silence— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."

edited Dec 27 '18 at 5:46

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

It works after using enabledirectives! If I'm not wrong, --- is not a font ligature, but a TeX ligature (enabled via tlig), so I thought it was a macro internally. Anyway, just em is corrected; --- still shows as three hyphens. But at least I can use the symbol directly, as you explained. Thank you!
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:00

@JosédeMattosNeto A ligature is a ligature and will only be applied when a font is rendered which will never take place for a bookmark.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 7:30

add a comment |

To expand all macros in the bookmarks, you have to add

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]

Also, when you use tagging, I think you have to use the start...stop pairs for chapter, section, etc. At least pdfinfo shows me wrong nesting if I don't use start...stop.

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]
setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]

starttext

startchapter[title=em Chapter — a note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=em A year from monday — from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter


startchapter[title=emphChapter emdash another note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=emphSilence emdash from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter

stoptext

$ pdfinfo -struct-text test.pdf
Div
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— a note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1.1"
 H (block)
 "A year from monday— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— another note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2.1"
 H (block)
 "Silence— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."

edited Dec 27 '18 at 5:46

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

It works after using enabledirectives! If I'm not wrong, --- is not a font ligature, but a TeX ligature (enabled via tlig), so I thought it was a macro internally. Anyway, just em is corrected; --- still shows as three hyphens. But at least I can use the symbol directly, as you explained. Thank you!
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:00

@JosédeMattosNeto A ligature is a ligature and will only be applied when a font is rendered which will never take place for a bookmark.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 7:30

add a comment |

To expand all macros in the bookmarks, you have to add

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]

Also, when you use tagging, I think you have to use the start...stop pairs for chapter, section, etc. At least pdfinfo shows me wrong nesting if I don't use start...stop.

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]
setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]

starttext

startchapter[title=em Chapter — a note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=em A year from monday — from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter


startchapter[title=emphChapter emdash another note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=emphSilence emdash from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter

stoptext

$ pdfinfo -struct-text test.pdf
Div
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— a note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1.1"
 H (block)
 "A year from monday— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— another note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2.1"
 H (block)
 "Silence— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."

edited Dec 27 '18 at 5:46

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

To expand all macros in the bookmarks, you have to add

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]

Also, when you use tagging, I think you have to use the start...stop pairs for chapter, section, etc. At least pdfinfo shows me wrong nesting if I don't use start...stop.

enabledirectives[references.bookmarks.preroll]
setupinteraction[state=start]
placebookmarks[chapter, section][chapter, section]
setupinteractionscreen[option=bookmark]
setuptagging[state=start]

starttext

startchapter[title=em Chapter — a note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=em A year from monday — from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter


startchapter[title=emphChapter emdash another note]

 Some paragraph.

 startsection[title=emphSilence emdash from John Cage]

 Some paragraph.

 stopsection

stopchapter

stoptext

$ pdfinfo -struct-text test.pdf
Div
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— a note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "1.1"
 H (block)
 "A year from monday— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "chapter"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2"
 H (block)
 "Chapter— another note"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."
 Sect "section"
 Div
 H (block)
 "2.1"
 H (block)
 "Silence— from John Cage"
 Div
 "Some paragraph."

edited Dec 27 '18 at 5:46

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

edited Dec 27 '18 at 5:46

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

answered Dec 27 '18 at 5:19

Henri Menke

70.5k8156264

It works after using enabledirectives! If I'm not wrong, --- is not a font ligature, but a TeX ligature (enabled via tlig), so I thought it was a macro internally. Anyway, just em is corrected; --- still shows as three hyphens. But at least I can use the symbol directly, as you explained. Thank you!
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:00

@JosédeMattosNeto A ligature is a ligature and will only be applied when a font is rendered which will never take place for a bookmark.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 7:30

add a comment |

It works after using enabledirectives! If I'm not wrong, --- is not a font ligature, but a TeX ligature (enabled via tlig), so I thought it was a macro internally. Anyway, just em is corrected; --- still shows as three hyphens. But at least I can use the symbol directly, as you explained. Thank you!
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:00

@JosédeMattosNeto A ligature is a ligature and will only be applied when a font is rendered which will never take place for a bookmark.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 7:30

It works after using enabledirectives! If I'm not wrong, --- is not a font ligature, but a TeX ligature (enabled via tlig), so I thought it was a macro internally. Anyway, just em is corrected; --- still shows as three hyphens. But at least I can use the symbol directly, as you explained. Thank you!
– José de Mattos Neto
Dec 27 '18 at 7:00

@JosédeMattosNeto A ligature is a ligature and will only be applied when a font is rendered which will never take place for a bookmark.
– Henri Menke
Dec 27 '18 at 7:30

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