General ⇒ Custom Cross References

[Svartisen]

Hi,

When you use \href command, it's possible to tell LaTeX what text should appear in your PDF in the link (\href{link}{MY_TEXT}). Is the same possible for \ref command?

The most obvious way (\ref{key}{MY_TEXT}) doesn't seem to work properly. MY_TEXT appears, but there is no reference to the desired key.

To put it another way, I want MY_TEXT to appear as a reference to a labelled item, such as f.e. Chapter 1: Introduction, when MY_TEXT is different from Introduction.

Thank you in advance,

Svartisen

[cgnieder]

Hi Svartisen,

Welcome to the LaTeX community!

The hyperref package not only provides \href but also \hyperref which has two different uses. One of them is

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\hyperref[<label>]{<text>}

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\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\section{Test}\label{sec:test}
\newpage
This leads to \hyperref[sec:test]{the section named ``Test''}.
\end{document}

Best regards

[Svartisen]

Hi,

Thanks a lot!