[OS X TeX] Referring to arbitrary labels?

[peter.frings at agfa.com]

on 2004/11/19 10:39, Mohinish Shukla wrote:

> -> Is it possible to have a kind of \refer{sectionlabel} which, instead
> of returning the section NUMBER, returns the section NAME or SHORTNAME?

\nameref seems to work for me. See

http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nameref


For example:
\newcommand{\seesec}[1]{%
  Section~\ref{sec:#1}:~\textsl{\nameref{sec:#1}}%
}


\subsection{A chapter somewhere} \label{sec:a-label}

... as explained in \seesec{a-label}.



Cheers,
Peter.


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