[OS X TeX] Re: MacOSX-TeX Digest #1997 - 02/06/07

[Alan Munn]

At 11:51 AM -0600 2/7/07, Jeffrey J Weimer wrote:
>On Feb 7, 2007, at 11:17 AM, Alan Munn wrote:
>
>>At 11:41 AM -0500 2/7/07, Chabot Denis wrote:
>>>Hi Alan,
>>>
>>>I tried your suggestion but my document would not compile.
>>>
>>...
>>Remove the call to titlesec and instead place the following early 
>>in your preamble:
>>
>>\renewcommand\section{\@startsection {section}{1}{\z@}%
>>                                    {-3.5ex \@plus -1ex \@minus -.2ex}%
>>                                    {2.3ex \@plus.2ex}%
>> 
>>{\normalfont\Large\bfseries\MakeUppercase}}
>>\makeatother
>
>Out of curiosity and from a principled standpoint, instead of 
>mucking about within the section definition, why would the following 
>(or its syntactically correct equivalent) not work and/or not be the 
>the preferred option?
>
>\let\osection\section%
>\renewcommand{\section}{\osection{{\Large\MakeUppercase\textbf{#1}}}}%

Even with correct syntax It doesn't work. BTW, the correct syntax is:

  \renewcommand{\section}[1]{\osection{{\Large\bfseries\MakeUppercase{#1}}}}

  It's something to do with how hyperref interacts with MakeUppercase, 
but I don't know the actual reason.  Otherwise, this would have been 
a simpler solution.

Alan


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