subscript in heading shows up in ToC but not in cross-ref

[FieryPantone]

I thought I'd seen something about this not so long ago, but haven't had any luck trying to turn up the previous post.

Simple enough question: the heading PK_{CA–ALX–PROD} shows up as PK_{CA–ALX–PROD} in the ToC, but if I try to use a cross-reference to it the result is simplified to PKCA–ALX–PROD

Is there a workaround? unfortunately, the subscripting is significant.

[FieryPantone · Accepted solution]

It's a mystery …but for some inscrutable reason or another, the xref that was showing up without subscript has now decided to show up with subscript. All's well that ends well, and two Shakespeare references in the same post :-}

[Bob_Niland]

You are probably doing the subscripts with a Character Format. For that to work, that format needs to be in the Character Catalog for both the source and referencing file. If you are doing it with an override, it's apt to be unreliable, although I'd really expect it to not work at all.

See also (you'll shortly discover the hypertext seems broken):

How to keep superscript format when generating a table of contents

The only fix for that would be if Unicode offered natively subscripted Latin alpha letters, which, alas, it does not yet (but it has lately added a gallon of emojis, which we will need in our post-literate future).

[FieryPantone]

Checking the character catalogue is a good idea; I'll do that, though – as I mentioned – FM seems to have caught up with itself anyway.

May not have been the use the committee had in mind, but I find the circled numbers/letters in Unicode very handy for harmonium registration even if I did have to roll my own PostScript for my non-Unicode-aware score-engraving software. I'll stick to rolling my own emoticons as well ;-}