Question

I have a section:

\section{Introduction} \label{sec:introduction} 

I’d like a link to the section where the link text is the name of the section. I can use hyperref:

The \hyperrf[sec:introduction]{Introduction} introduces the paper. 

But that requires repeating the section title (‘Introduction’). Is there a way to grab that? ref yields the section number, which isn’t right. autoref yields ‘section ‘ and then the section number, which isn’t right, either.

Answer 1

There are a couple of packages that provide this for you. nameref is distributed as part of hyperref to do this:
http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=nameref

There is a more general package for cross-referencing basically anything, called zref: http://tug.ctan.org/cgi-bin/ctanPackageInformation.py?id=zref

It’s by the same author as hyperref, Heiko Oberdiek; it’s the one that I would choose. Here’s an example:

\documentclass[oneside,12pt]{article} \usepackage[user,titleref]{zref} \begin{document} \section{Introduction of sorts.}\zlabel{sec:intro} Hello \subsection{Structure} We begin in `\ztitleref{sec:intro}'. \end{document} 

Note that it even removes the trailing period in the section title.