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I would like to include some bib references as tooltips in my beamer slides. (I do NOT want a tooltip to appear for every \cite{}.)

I have started to use pdfcomment for tooltips as it seemed the simplest of those I looked at (cooltooltips, fancytooltips, pdfcomment).

I'm using Win 7, WinEdt 10, MikTeX 2.9. I've been trying PDFLaTex + Biber + PDFLaTeX.

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{beamer}

\usepackage[natbib=true,backend=biber]{biblatex}
\usepackage{pdfcomment}
\usepackage{filecontents}

\begin{filecontents}{bib.bib}
  @BOOK{dav-mac-93,
    AUTHOR =       "Russell Davidson and James G. MacKinnon",
    TITLE =        "Estimation and Inference in Econometrics",
    PUBLISHER =    "Oxford University Press",
    YEAR =         "1993",
    address =      "New York",
  }
\end{filecontents}

\bibliography{bib}

\begin{document}

  \begin{frame}
    I want the reference in this tooltip to be resolved. \citet{dav-mac-93} 
    \pdfcomment{Resolve this reference: \citet{dav-mac-93}}

    \printbibliography
  \end{frame}

\end{document}

Is it possible to compile bib references in pdfcomment, or do I need another package?

Colin Rowat
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  • maybe https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15356/showing-the-bibliographic-entry-in-a-popup-when-you-hover-over-the-citation-key could help – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Sep 14 '17 at 15:38
  • thanks @samcarter. My understanding of that thread is that it seeks to generate a tooltip for every \cite{} call. I've clarified my OP to indicate that I don't want this: I just want to be able to include annotations whose \cite{}'s compile properly. – Colin Rowat Sep 15 '17 at 16:46
  • Most of the answers for the linked question don't do this for all cites, they define separate commands (for example \MyTip) for the tooltip and leave the normal cite command unchanged. – samcarter_is_at_topanswers.xyz Sep 15 '17 at 16:49
  • thanks @samcarter. Closer inspection of my .log file identified the problem (see my 'reply' below). Thus, I didn't work through the examples in your cited question (https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/15356/showing-the-bibliographic-entry-in-a-popup-when-you-hover-over-the-citation-key) to the point where I got them to work. Thus, I wasn't able to see whether any of them did cover the same question I posed here. – Colin Rowat Sep 25 '17 at 13:30
  • The .log file identifies an error: "hyperref Warning: Token not allowed in a PDF string", which pointed me to this solution, https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/53513/hyperref-token-not-allowed

    A hack fix for my MWE thus edits the original \pdfcomment to read:

    \pdfcomment{Resolve this reference: \texorpdfstring{\citet{dav-mac-93}}{Davidson and MacKinnon (1993)}}

     – Colin Rowat Sep 25 '17 at 13:36

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