[Tex/LaTex] enumitem: referencing items in enumerate

#enumeratecleverefcross-referencingenumitemlists

Say we have a huge document with many sections, subsections, and subsubsections. In a few of these sections, we have enumerated environments.

The package I am using is enumitem.

One of the environments could look like:

\begin{enumerate}
  \item \label{one}
  \item
\end{enumerate}
referring back to \cref{one}

Now if I reference this item later, it will say:

referring back to item 1

I could have other enumerated environments with \alph, (\alph), etc. and there reference could be item (a) or something.

The problem I have is what if I have another environment with the standard numbers that starts from 1 and goes to 4 but item 1 is also labeled.
I would have another item 1 reference in the document. The hyperref would take it to a different list but is there a way to differentiate the printed out reference?

The list are unrelated so I don't want to start the new environment continuing the old numbering. Say starting from 3 and so on.

Here is a MWE:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item
    one \label{one}
  \item
    two \label{two}
\end{enumerate}
This \cref{two} is great.
\begin{enumerate}
  \item
    one \label{dog}
  \item
    two \label{cat}
\end{enumerate}
This \cref{cat} is a cat.
\end{document}

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Would there be a way to change one of the references to observation 1 instead of item 1? This would be a local change nor global.

Best Answer

I would consider defining a new list

\newlist{observations}{enumerate}{10}
\setlist[observations]{label*=\arabic*}

and then tweaking crefname accordingly

\crefname{observationsi}{observation}{obvservations}
\Crefname{observationsi}{Observation}{Obvservations}

Here's the output

screenshot

and a complete MWE to play with

% arara: pdflatex
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{cleveref}

\newlist{observations}{enumerate}{10}
\setlist[observations]{label*=\arabic*}

\crefname{observationsi}{observation}{obvservations}
\Crefname{observationsi}{Observation}{Obvservations}

\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}
  \item
    one \label{one}
  \item
    two \label{two}
\end{enumerate}
This \cref{two} is great.
\begin{observations}
  \item one \label{dog}
  \item two \label{cat}
\end{observations}
This \cref{cat} is a cat.
\end{document}
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