\pdfmarkupcomment not working with \cite- or \ref-commands

[Former user]

Hi,

LaTeX(mk) gives me errors when using \cite or \ref-commands in a section I would like to markup using \pdfmarkupcomment.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,

Janosch

[Josef Kleber]

To calculate the positions, pdfcomment is using soul. Its parser is known for choking on macros. Unfortunately, there will be likely no update to soul. There are just some work-a-rounds, like extra curly braces for \ref. For \cite, there's just an ugly work-a-round:

\documentclass[10pt]{article}
\usepackage{xcolor}
\usepackage[author={John Doe},color=yellow]{pdfcomment}
% turn off hyperlinks for ref and cite
%\hypersetup{draft}
\usepackage{filecontents}
\usepackage{soul}
%should work, but does not (soul doc)
%\soulregister{\ref{1}
%\soulregister{\cite}{1}
% work-a-round
\soulregister{\myref}{0}
\soulregister{\mycite}{0}
\def\myref{\ref{x}}
\def\mycite{\cite{DUMMY:1}}
%
\begin{document}
\setlength\parindent{0pt}
\begin{filecontents}{test.bib}
@BOOK{DUMMY:1,
AUTHOR="John Doe",
TITLE="The Book without Title",
PUBLISHER="Dummy Publisher",
YEAR="2000",
}
\end{filecontents}
\section{x}\label{x}
\section{y}
% additional braces work for \ref
Some text. Section~\pdfmarkupcomment{{\ref{x}}}{my ref}.

% but also the work-a-round
Some text. Section~\pdfmarkupcomment{\myref}{my ref}.

% additional braces do not work for \cite
%Random citation \pdfmarkupcomment{{\cite{DUMMY:1}}{my cite} embeddeed in text.

% but the work-a-round works
Random citation \pdfmarkupcomment{\mycite}{my cite} embeddeed in text.

\bibliography{test} 
\bibliographystyle{ieeetr}
\end{document}

[Josef Kleber]

on hold until soul update