Page Layout ⇒ Call to type of sectioning

[jeanjacques]

Hi everyone,

I have a little question, whose answer I can't find surprisingly, altough it's quite natural when dealing with long works.
I know how to call for the number of a section, or a chapter, etc, by putting a label just after defining it, and then using the ref. When calling it, one uses something like : "as explained in section \ref{}".
One sometimes has to change the type of a "section"; you may want to change a section to a chapter, a subsection to a section, etc. If this happens, one has to be carefull, and start looking at every section (say) calls, and change in the example before, the word section by chapter manually.
Is there a command that will display the type of sectionning? For instance, in the example, the label is put after a section, so the command should display "section"; if I decide at a moment that the section should actually be a chapter, the command should automatically display "chapter" after I changed the type of the section.
I think one can ask for the same problem for propositions, theorems, etc, where I know that Latex can display the number, but one has to write manually the type before the \ref{}.

Thanks for any help,
JJ

[localghost]

Using the cleveref package might do the trick.


Best regards and welcome to the board
Thorsten

[jeanjacques]

Many many thanks, that's exactly it !

JJ