General ⇒ How to (slightly) modify autoref feature of hyperref package

[farazhussain]

Hello,

In my document, when referring to a certain section, I'm currently
using \ref and writing "§5.3" instead of "Section 5.3". Now I want to
use autoref to get the link on the entire "§5.3" and not just on
"5.3".

Therefore, I wrote the following command:

\def\sectionautorefname{\S{}}

It works good, except for one thing: it inserts a space after the
section symbol and before the section number. So the reference shown
above looks like "§ 5.3". I also tried "\def\sectionautorefname{\S\ }"
but that also doesn't work.

How do I get rid of this unwanted single space character? Thanks in
advance.

Best Regards,

Faraz Hussain

[corderin]

I would try with:

\def\sectionautorefname{\S\hspace*{-2pt}}

try with different values of pt, I don´t know extactly how long is a single space in your latex document.

[farazhussain]

Thanks a lot. I got this working with the help of advice from the following:

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.tex ... e0afb9b677