Disable hyperlinks in the titles of the sections but keep it in the section numbering and pages

Question

basically I would like to ask how to make the hyperlinks in toc look like the picture bellow. Thanks in advance!

In this thread the exact opposite was asked and solved. Maybe it helps with the solution I am asking. I just don't know what variables to change and how. How can I make the section-text in a Table of Contents clickable, but keep the section-number *unclickable*?

Related: Table of content: link at the page number instead of the section body — leandriis, Apr 06 '19 at 19:59
That's not trivial and without a complete example showing your class and other info it is actually inpossible to answer. — Ulrike Fischer, Apr 07 '19 at 08:27
I use article as document class. I didn't change anything on it. — , Apr 07 '19 at 08:31
I have found something that might work. There is a document class called jhep3 where you can see here https://jhep.sissa.it/jhep/help/JHEP/TeXclass/CLASSVRS/JHEP3.cls.16.03.07 in there if someone could extract the right code that would be awesome! — , Apr 07 '19 at 09:07

John Kormylo · Accepted Answer · 2019-04-08T15:22:21.293

I took my linked solution and placed the hyperlinks around \@savenumber instead of \@savetitle.

Since there was no mention of cross-linking sections and TOC entries, I removed that part of the solution.

\documentclass[11pt]{article}
\usepackage[margin=0.5in,footskip=0.4in]{geometry}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\hypersetup{
    colorlinks=true,
    linkcolor=blue,
    linktoc=all,
}

%\let\hypercontentsline=\contentsline
%\renewcommand{\contentsline}[4]{\hypertarget{toc.#4}{}\hypercontentsline{#1}{#2}{#3}{#4}}

% begin code to remove section titles from the TOC
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\@savenumber}{}% reserve global names
\newcommand{\@gettitle}[1]% remove \numberline from title
  {\bgroup\let\numberline=\@gobble#1\egroup}

\def\contentsline#1#2#3#4{% #1=type, #2=entry, #3=page, #4=anchor
  %\hypertarget{toc.#4}{}% set up backlink
  \bgroup% separate \numberline from title
    \renewcommand{\numberline}[1]{\gdef\@savenumber{##1}}%
    \sbox0{#2}% throw away title, keep number
  \egroup
  \begingroup
    \Hy@safe@activestrue
  \edef\x{\endgroup
    \def\noexpand\Hy@tocdestname{#4}%
  }\x
  \ifx\Hy@tocdestname\ltx@empty
    \csname l@#1\endcsname{#2}{#3}%
  \else
    \ifcase\Hy@linktoc % none
      \csname l@#1\endcsname{#2}{#3}%
    \or % section
      \csname l@#1\endcsname{\numberline{\hyper@linkstart{link}{\Hy@tocdestname}\@savenumber\hyper@linkend}%
        {\@gettitle{#2}}}{#3}%
    \or % page
      \def\Hy@temp{#3}%
      \ifx\Hy@temp\ltx@empty
        \csname l@#1\endcsname{#2}{#3}%
      \else
        \csname l@#1\endcsname{{#2}}{%
          \hyper@linkstart{link}{\Hy@tocdestname}{#3}\hyper@linkend
        }%
      \fi
    \else % all
      \def\Hy@temp{#3}%
      \ifx\Hy@temp\ltx@empty
        \csname l@#1\endcsname{\numberline{\hyper@linkstart{link}{\Hy@tocdestname}\@savenumber\hyper@linkend}%
          {\@gettitle{#2}}
        \egroup}{}%
      \else
        \csname l@#1\endcsname{\numberline{\hyper@linkstart{link}{\Hy@tocdestname}\@savenumber\hyper@linkend}%
          {\@gettitle{#2}}
        }{%
          \hyper@linkstart{link}{\Hy@tocdestname}{#3}\hyper@linkend
        }%
      \fi
    \fi
  \fi
}
\makeatother

% Body
\begin{document}
  \title{This is a Title}
  \date{}
  \maketitle
  \tableofcontents
  \section{A Section}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
  \section{Another One}
  \subsection{Hello}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
  \subsection{Goodbye}
  Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
  \section{Final Section}
  Peace out.
\end{document}

There seems to be a problem when you try to right in math mode in the section title. For example when I write this \subsection{for (r>r_{0})} I get an error. When I remove it it works fine. Is there any fix for that? — , Apr 08 '19 at 06:06
There is also an error when I use \renewcommand\thesubsection{(\emph{\roman{subsection}})}. — , Apr 08 '19 at 06:23
I used \xdef to separate the title from the number, and there are certain things (like \emph) that \xdef cannot handle. OTOH, using math in titles will generate missing $ messages regardless. — John Kormylo, Apr 08 '19 at 14:28
Thank you thank you thank you! You are awesome sir. My respects to you! — , Apr 08 '19 at 16:07
There seems to be a problem when I try to use \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{Appendix}. For some reason the numbering continues. — , Apr 16 '19 at 18:06
Fixed it. you just add \addcontentsline{toc}{section}{\protect\numberline{}Appendix} — , Apr 16 '19 at 18:18

Disable hyperlinks in the titles of the sections but keep it in the section numbering and pages

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