References with text in LaTeX

Question

In LaTeX you can easily reference a section by using  label   next to a section and then  ref   to create the reference  However  the reference only includes the number of the section  or the page with  pageref    I would like to insert a reference containing the text of the section   Example    section My Section   label section my   This is a reference to Section  ref section my     The output is the following   1  My Section  This is a reference to Section 1    I would like to have   This is a reference to 1  My Section

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I think you can do this with the hyperref package  although I ve not tried it myself  From the relevant LaTeX Wikibook section   The hyperref package introduces another useful command   autoref    This command creates a reference with additional text corresponding to the targets type  all of which will be a hyperlink  For example  the command  autoref sec intro  would create a hyperlink to the  label sec intro  command  wherever it is  Assuming that this label is pointing to a section  the hyperlink would contain the text  quot section 3 4 quot   or similar  capitalization rules will be followed  which makes this very convenient   You can customize the prefixed text by redefining  typeautorefname to the prefix you want  as in   def subsectionautorefname section

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Have a look to this wiki  LaTeX Labels and Cross-referencing   The hyperref package automatically includes the nameref package  and a similarly named command  It inserts text corresponding to the section name  for example    section MyFirstSection   label marker   section MySecondSection  In section  nameref marker  we defined

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Using the hyperref package  you could also declare a new command by using  newcommand  secref  1   autoref  1    nameref  1   in the pre-amble  Placing  secref section my  in the text generates  1  My section

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