workarounds for Alon documentclass clashing with hyperref

[baptiste]

I'm writing a book with CRC press, using their in-house Alon.cls class (which I'm not allowed to share^[1]). Its documentation states, without explanation, that one shouldn't use hyperref as it will lead to errors. Problem is, pandoc relies on hyperref quite a lot, and introduces things like \hypertarget{} wrappers around sections etc. all over the place.

I'm not sure how to work around this: there doesn't seem to be an easy way to tell pandoc not to use \hypertarget{} and co, and on the other side, the Alon class is absolutely opaque, and the contact I have at CRC doesn't seem to know the first thing about Quarto, or Pandoc, or Latex for that matter.

Has anyone run into this kind of issue and found a workaround? I imagine it should be possible to replace hyperref macros with dummy versions, but that doesn't seem trivial.

[1]: that said, someone on the internet did: https://gitee.com/mirrors_bmcfee/dstbook/blob/main/Alon.cls

[baptiste]

Defining the following dummy commands lets me compile a quarto document with Alon.cls

\newcommand\hypertarget[2]{#2}
\newcommand\texorpdfstring[2]{#1}
\newcommand\bookmarksetup[1]{}
\newcommand\href[1]{#1}

I'd prefer if there was a fix to make it compatible with hyperref and bookmark, but that class's code is hurting my eyes so I think I'll leave it at that.