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Is there a way to disable nesting in hyperrefs? Here is an example:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{nameref}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

newpage



section{One}

label{sec:one}

newpage



section{nameref{sec:one} Two}



end{document}

The hyperref of the second section in the table of contents will consist of two hyperrefs one for "One" that leads to the first section and one for "One Two" that leads to the second section where "One" lays over the link for "One Two".

But I would like to have only one link there that leads to the second section if clicks anywhere on "One Two" in the TOC entry for the second section. So, I would like hyperrefs not to be nested into others.

More recent releases of the hyperref-bundle and the nameref-package provide so-called "starred" variants of referencing-commands that do produce textual phrases but do not produce hyperlinks.

Within your section-command you can use the starred variant of nameref.

But there are some pitfalls:

Be aware that with page-style "headings" arguments of sectioning-macros also go into page-headers while everything within the page-header gets "uppercased" after expansion which includes names of labels occurring within the arguments of sectioning-macros—a circumstance which in turn might lead to undefined-reference-errors.

This example does exhibit the problem:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{nameref}

pagestyle{headings}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

newpage



section{One}

label{sec:one}

newpage



section{nameref*{sec:one} Two}



end{document}

With this example, you will never get rid of the message about undefined references. The reason is that within page-headers due to uppercase it is attempted to refer to a label "SEC:ONE" while it should be "sec:one".

You might get the idea of using referencing-labels whose names consist of uppercase-letters only. If you do so, referencing works but unlike the other things within the page-headers the result of referencing will not be in uppercase letters within the page-headers:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{nameref}

pagestyle{headings}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

newpage



section{One}

label{SEC:ONE}

newpage



section{nameref*{SEC:ONE} Two}



end{document}

Therefore I suggest using the expandable referencing-commands of the refcount-package within the arguments of sectioning-commands.

Solution 1:

In case you don't like hyperlinks at all:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{nameref}

usepackage{refcount}



makeatletter

newcommandquestionmarks{texorpdfstring{nfss@text{reset@fontbfseries??}}{??}}

makeatother



pagestyle{headings}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

newpage



section{One}

label{sec:one}

newpage



section[getrefbykeydefault{sec:one}{name}{questionmarks} Two]%<- This goes to toc and pdf-bookmarks (and page-headers).

        {nameref*{sec:one} Two} %<- This goes to main text.



end{document}

Solution 2:

In case you wish hyperlinks in the main text:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{nameref}

usepackage{refcount}



makeatletter

newcommandquestionmarks{texorpdfstring{nfss@text{reset@fontbfseries??}}{??}}

makeatother



pagestyle{headings}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

newpage



section{One}

label{sec:one}

newpage



section[getrefbykeydefault{sec:one}{name}{questionmarks} Two]%<- This goes to toc and pdf-bookmarks (and page-headers).

        {texorpdfstring{nameref}{nameref*}{sec:one} Two} %<- This goes to main text.



end{document}

Use the starred nameref:

documentclass{article}

usepackage{hyperref}

usepackage{nameref}



begin{document}



tableofcontents

newpage



section{One}

label{sec:one}

newpage



section{nameref*{sec:one} Two}



end{document}