Another nice aspect of cleveref is, that it automatically calls references to appendix sections "appendix". This may become important, when I later decide to move whole sections to the appendix.
On Wed, Sep 19, 2018 at 3:32 PM Klaus-Dieter Bauer < bauer.klaus.die...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 17, 2018 at 5:09 PM Richard Kimberly Heck <rikih...@lyx.org> > wrote: > >> On 9/17/18 6:11 AM, Klaus-Dieter Bauer wrote: >> > Thanks, I wasn't aware of \prettyref support :) >> > >> > For my purposes this fits the bill, as the commands seem to be >> > effectively interchangeable and only really differ in how the >> > formatting is determined. >> > Well, except for a possibility to make \cref automatically capitalize >> > at the beginning of sentences, as done by \prettyref, but I found that >> > sentences rarely start with references anyway. >> >> >> Well, refstyle does support the capitalization thing, and plurals too. >> Is there some reason you don't want to use it? >> >> Riki >> > > Mostly cross-compatibility with latex export/import and editing the plain > latex later. > > The cleveref package currently implements the best logic, as it bases the > formatting on the actual target of the reference, rather than the name of > the label. For instance, if I decide to change a theorem to a result > environment while end-formatting the plain LaTeX source, both refstyle and > prettyref would either > > - require replacing all references in the document (error-prone for > multi-file documents), or > - produce incorrectly formatted references. > > - Klaus > >
