Error with \DeclareRobustCommand, \usepackage{hyperref,xcolor} and \usepackage{graphicx}

Question

In order to tie capital letters with a capital hyphen, I created a command

\DeclareRobustCommand{\capitalhyphen}{\raisebox{0.24ex}{\resizebox{0.4em}{\height}{-}}\kern-0.07em}

which uses graphicx package. I'd like to use this command in \chapter and similar 'moving arguments'. This code:

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,ukrainian]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\capitalhyphen}{\raisebox{0.24ex}{\resizebox{0.4em}{\height}{-}}\kern-0.07em}
\begin{document}
\chapter{ФІЗИКО\capitalhyphen МАТЕМАТИЧНИЙ}
\end{document}

works fine and does the job. However, adding

\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref,xcolor}
\hypersetup{citebordercolor=green,linkbordercolor=white}

to the preamble, results in an error. Ho to fix it?

UPDATE: I figured out that if we add bookmarks=false option the problem disappears. Is there any chance to use this \DeclareRobustCommand and still have bookmarks??

\DeclareRobustCommand instead of \newcommand or your definition but \protect\capitalhyphen when used in a moving argument. See this question for a technical description of the problem and this question for a similar problem. — egreg, Jan 31 '13 at 16:55
You will need to delete your toc file after making your command robust and let latex write a new clean one. The old one will be corrupted. — David Carlisle, Jan 31 '13 at 17:08
I get the error message when I try to put \DeclareRobustCommand{}, not even when I use this in the \chapter{}. And yes, I deleted toc file — Physicsworks, Jan 31 '13 at 17:14
Please edit your question to include a complete small document starting \documentclass and ending \end{document} that shows the problem. — David Carlisle, Jan 31 '13 at 17:16
\DeclareRobustCommand{\capitalhyphen}{...} is the correct way; sorry if my comment has been misleading. Then you don't have to use \protect in front of \capitalhyphen — egreg, Jan 31 '13 at 17:20
Also, you need the graphicx package to also be included, since you're using \resizebox. — Werner, Jan 31 '13 at 17:22
If I remove \protect (that doesn't belong there), I get no error. It's probably a problem of encoding; retype the chapter title, but before running pdflatex for the first time, remove the .aux and .toc files. — egreg, Jan 31 '13 at 17:43
I've tried this, unfortunately this doesn't help either. By the way, when I try to compile the document with www.sharelatex.com, I get the same error message ! undefind control sequence \height leading text: bla-bla-bla — Physicsworks, Jan 31 '13 at 17:59

score 6 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '13 at 20:21

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For the bookmarks macro \capitalhyphen can be redefined using \pdfstringdefDisableCommands:

\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref}
\pdfstringdefDisableCommands{%
  \def\capitalhyphen{-}%
}

answered Jan 31 '13 at 20:21

Heiko Oberdiek

271,626

David Carlisle · Answer 2 · 2013-01-31T19:43:25.090

You need to define the command in the preamble and also load graphicx package.

\documentclass[11pt]{report}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[english,ukrainian]{babel}
\usepackage{graphicx}
\DeclareRobustCommand{\capitalhyphen}{\raisebox{0.24ex}{\resizebox{0.4em}{\height}{-}}\kern-0.07em}
\begin{document}

\chapter{ФІЗИКО\capitalhyphen МАТЕМАТИЧНИЙ}
\end{document}

enter image description here

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If you add

\usepackage[unicode]{hyperref,xcolor}
\hypersetup{citebordercolor=green,linkbordercolor=white}

You get an error that \height is undefined. hyperref needs to do a lot of normalising of characters to meet the restricted encoding allowed in pdf bookmarks. It apparently disables the latex protection mechanism to do that.

You can add \let\height\relax then you get no error but the bookmark list isn't right. however

\usepackage{hyperref,xcolor}
\hypersetup{citebordercolor=green,linkbordercolor=white}

seems to work

I forgot to include it in the minimal example, but I DO HAVE IT in my main document. Please, see the log file I've added to my question. It's odd, but when I use the usual hyphen inside \chapter{} in my main document I have no error, the error pops up when I try to use \captialhyphen, and this error has to do with inputenc (see the log)... — Physicsworks, Jan 31 '13 at 17:30
@Physicsworks The error is completely unrelated to \capitalhyphen. — egreg, Jan 31 '13 at 17:37
@Physicsworks The code in my answer runs without error and produces the result shown. — David Carlisle, Jan 31 '13 at 17:43
@DavidCarlisle, this is what I'd like to get. Unfortunately, what I get is the error message above =( : ! Undefined control sequence. Strangely, in the minimal working example I get ANOTHER error (! inputenc). Just great... — Physicsworks, Jan 31 '13 at 17:46
The inputenc error is unrelated (had you asked that this one would not have been closed) so you may want to ask a new question (or edit the question title of this one) about that, add \listfilesto your preaamble, you may have an old version, I added my output to the answer — David Carlisle, Jan 31 '13 at 17:55
Which just shows why we always ask for full working examples in questions:-)(I'll update my answer to match( — David Carlisle, Jan 31 '13 at 19:39
@David, Yeah =) In this case I couldn't insert the full document because of its size, and even a preamble is huge, so just by using a trial and error method (by deleting the portion of the preamble and compile it to see whether it works or not) I finally figured that the problem was not about encoding ... Anyway, thank you all guys and +1 to everyone who added an answer! — Physicsworks, Jan 31 '13 at 20:31

Error with \DeclareRobustCommand, \usepackage{hyperref,xcolor} and \usepackage{graphicx}

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