cross-referencinglabelsnaming
How can we give a name to a label so that when we do the cross-reference, instead of displaying the number of the section, we have the name of the label?
For example,
\underline{homogeneity in preferences(HP)\phantomsection\label{hyp3}}
When I use \ref{hyp3} I would like the shown reference text to be HP and not e.g. 5.1 that is the number of the section.
Can someone help me?
With the package hyperref you can use the optional argument of \hyperref to reference a \label with arbitrary text:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\section{Hello World}
\label{sec:hello}
Reference to \hyperref[sec:hello]{this section}.
\end{document}
I would suggest the following:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{wrapfig}
\usepackage{tcolorbox}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\newtcolorbox[auto counter,number within=section,crefname={box}{boxes}]{pabox}[2][]{%
title=Box 1 $\mid$ Timeline,
colback=blue!5!white,
colframe=blue!75!black,
colbacktitle=cyan!50!green,
coltitle=blue!25!black,
fonttitle=\bfseries,
subtitle style={boxrule=0.4pt,colback=cyan!50!red!25!white},title=Box ~\thetcbcounter $\mid$ #2, label={#1}}
\begin{document}
\section{section title}
\begin{wrapfigure}{r}{0.5\textwidth}
\begin{pabox}[mybox]{Timeline}
\tcbsubtitle{1690}
TEXT.
\tcbsubtitle{1896}
TEXT 1.
\tcbsubtitle{1925}
TEXT 2.
\tcbsubtitle{1967}
TEXT 3.
\tcbsubtitle{2000}
TEXT 4.
\end{pabox}
\end{wrapfigure}
Here is a reference with cleveref \cref{mybox} and a capitalized reference \Cref{mybox} and another without cleveref: \ref{mybox}
\end{document}
In the preamble of the document I have used the \newtcolobox command to define a new type of colored box named pabox. The definition of the layout is the same as in the question. I have additionally added the options auto counter and number within=sections that allow automated numbering of the boxes according to the numbering scheme, that was requested.
Additionally, the title of the box is set 'semi-automatically' with Box and the current number being printed automatically and the text behind the | that can be added manually for every box.
In the first optional argument of pabox one can add a label that can be used with the usual referencing command like ref.
EDIT: To automatically print the 'type' in the reference as well (box 1.1 instead of 1.1), I would recomment the package cleveref, that I have included in the edited MWE above. Additionally, I have used the option crefname={box}{boxes} to tell cleveref how to 'call' the boxes in the reference.
To reference the boxes in the text, including their type, one can use \cref{<label>} while \ref{<label>} still only prints their number. Please also keep in mind the command \Cref{<label>} that capitalizes the first letter of the type (usefull for beginnings of sencences).
Addition: hyperref can as well be incorporated in this solution to turn references into clickabe hyperlinks. Please keep in mind the correct loading order, as cleverref is one of the exceptions that has to be loaded after hyperref.
Best Answer
Taking the excellent answer by egreg (Labeling a text and referencing it later) and modifying it to take an additional optional argument I could come up with the solution below. It creates a new command
\labeltextthat can be referenced to. It takes two parameters and one optional parameter:If you want to, you can set the markup or highlighting of the label and (optionally) the reference, too. I set it to
\emphrather than\underlineas underlining looks bad to me and is considered bad practice.MWE: