[XeTeX] color name in headline bleeds into pdf bookmarks

[Ulrike Fischer]

Am Wed, 12 Jan 2022 15:41:54 +0000 schrieb Niemann, Hartmut:

> I observed a strange thing when experimenting with colored text.
> 
> ---8<----
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{xcolor}
> \usepackage{bookmark}
> \begin{document}
> \tableofcontents
> \newpage
> \section{One}
> \section{\color{red}Two}
> \section{Three}
> \end{document}
> --8<------
> I ran this through xelatex (texlive 2018 on windows 10-64) three times to get the toc right.
> 
> There is a pdf bookmark for each section, but the second one is "redTwo" instead of "Two".
> 
> Is there a way to avoid that?

The standard way to avoid that something affects the bookmarks is to
to use \texorpdfstring:

\section{\texorpdfstring{\color{red}}{}Two}
 
-- 
Ulrike Fischer 
https://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/