To access a section (or subsection), should I always put a \label after that section or is there any way to access that specific section without using \ref in another place?
[Tex/LaTex] Accessing section or subsection
cross-referencingsectioning
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With my comment in mind, here's a patch for \nameref which will combine the names of two sectioning levels:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{nameref}
\makeatletter
\def\NR@gettitle#1{%
\GetTitleString{#1}%
\expandafter\let\csname @currentlabelname@\thesection@level\endcsname\GetTitleStringResult
\edef\@currentlabelname
{%
\ifcsname
@currentlabelname@\number\numexpr\c@section@level-\@ne\relax
\endcsname
\unexpanded\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter
{%
\csname
@currentlabelname@\number\numexpr\c@section@level-\@ne\relax
\endcsname
}%
\fi
\unexpanded\expandafter{\GetTitleStringResult}%
}
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
\section{1}
\label{sec:1}
\subsection{a}
\label{sec:1a}
section: \nameref{sec:1}.
subsection: \nameref{sec:1a}.
\end{document}
I hope it is clear that this is not very general, but it answers your exact question. It sould be possible to generalize it further.
Edit
Patch when titlesec is used...
\usepackage{etoolbox}
\makeatletter
\def\chapter@level{0}
\def\section@level{1}
\def\subsection@level{2}
\def\subsubsection@level{3}
\def\paragraph@level{4}
\def\subparagraph@level{5}
\patchcmd\ttl@straight@i{\def\@currentlabelname{#2}}
{%
\expandafter\def
\csname @currentlabelname@\csname#1@level\endcsname\endcsname{#2}%
\edef\@currentlabelname
{%
\ifcsname
@currentlabelname@\number\numexpr\csname#1@level\endcsname-\@ne\relax
\endcsname
\unexpanded\expandafter\expandafter\expandafter
{%
\csname
@currentlabelname@\number\numexpr\csname#1@level\endcsname-\@ne\relax
\endcsname
}%
\fi
\unexpanded{#2}%
}
}{}{}
\makeatother
komascript's tools for formatting headings are great, but won't be enough if you want the numbers and titles formatted separately. Here's how to go about it. This uses titlesec. (by the way, what's the language that requires you to do all this? I find it offensive, really)
\documentclass[paper=letter,12pt]{scrartcl}
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Silbentrennung
\usepackage{times}
\usepackage{titlesec}
\setcounter{secnumdepth}{2}
\let\subsubsection\paragraph
\newcommand{\periodafter}[1]{#1.}
\titleformat{\section}{\normalfont\scshape}{\textbf{\thesection.}}{1ex}{\periodafter}
\titleformat{\subsection}{\normalfont\scshape}{\textbf{\thesubsection.}}{1ex}{\periodafter}
\titleformat{\paragraph}[runin]{\normalfont\scshape}{}{1em}{}
\begin{document}
\section{Section 1}
In this section I want to show that \ldots
\subsection{Subsection 1}
The special focus here is on \ldots
\subsubsection{Subsubsection 1}
This subsubsection is allegal and should come out as a paragraph.
\end{document}
PS: I do like those vintage periods finishing off the titles, though.
Best Answer
You need to use a
\labelafter, not before, the sectioning, caption or other command you want to reference. You need to use\labeland\ref, or similar commands, to access sections by label (name).The
hyperrefpackage can create bookmark entries for the PDF without\label's which also allow you to jump to chapters, sections, etc. but it will not allow you to reference this sections from other places in the text.