ntheorem + autoref + aliascnt cause TeX to exceed grouplimit capacity

Question

I'm using MikTeX 2.9. When processing the following:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage[hyperref]{ntheorem}
\usepackage{aliascnt}

\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}
\newaliascnt{definition}{lemma}
\newtheorem{definition}[definition]{Definition}
\aliascntresetthe{definition}

\begin{document}

\begin{definition}
\label{def:first}
This is my definition.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}[Alternative to \autoref{def:first}]
This is my second definition.
\end{definition}

\end{document}

I get:

! TeX capacity exceeded, sorry [grouping levels=255].
\HyRef@autoref #1#2->\begingroup 
                                 \Hy@safe@activestrue \expandafter \HyRef@au...
l.31 ...ition}[Alternative to \autoref{def:first}]

If I remove the autoref, all is well. This doesn't happen to me with amsthm instead of ntheorem. Am I doing something wrong? Is it an ntheorem bug? an aliascnt bug?

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 21 '11 at 13:12

1

This seems to work; the problem seems to be in the counter's name

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[hyperref]{ntheorem}
\usepackage{aliascnt}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\newcommand\definautorefname{Definition}

\newtheorem{lemma}{Lemma}
\newaliascnt{defin}{lemma}
\newtheorem{definition}[defin]{Definition}

\begin{document}

\begin{definition}
\label{def:first}
This is my definition.
\end{definition}

\begin{definition}[Alternative to \autoref{def:first}]
This is my second definition.
\end{definition}

\end{document}

answered Jul 21 '11 at 13:12

egreg

1,121,712

2

also, hyperref should be loaded last (as you've done). – barbara beeton Jul 21 '11 at 15:40
But why shouldn't it just work the way it is, without me having to use a different counter name? :-( – einpoklum Jul 21 '11 at 18:59
Sorry, ask Heiko Oberdiek; he is always very keen on receiving comments and bug reports. – egreg Jul 21 '11 at 22:44
@egreg: Just though I'd report I wrote Heiko Oberdiek (heiko.oberdiek at googlemail dot com) on 2011-07-23, and he hasn't answered yet. – einpoklum Oct 30 '11 at 19:26

einpoklum · Accepted Answer · 2011-12-28T20:26:08.383

0

Well, at least I can have nice macro for this:

\makeatletter
\def\newaliasedtheorem#1[#2]#3{%
  \newaliascnt{#1@alt}{#2}
  \newtheorem{#1}[#1@alt]{#3}
  \expandafter\newcommand\csname #1@altname\endcsname{#3}
}
\makeatother

Use it instead of \newtheorem, i.e. rather than:

\newtheorem{mynewenv}[existingcounter]{MyNewEnvName}

do

\newaliasedtheorem{mynewenv}[existingcounter]{MyNewEnvName}

edited Dec 28 '11 at 20:26

answered Jul 23 '11 at 05:49

einpoklum

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ntheorem + autoref + aliascnt cause TeX to exceed grouplimit capacity

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