gettitlestring
Processes and sanitizes title strings by removing unwanted commands and markup to ensure clean title references in documents.
Overview
Provides essential behind-the-scenes functionality for packages that need to work with clean title references in LaTeX documents. The package automatically removes technical elements like \label commands from titles, ensuring they display properly when referenced.
- Commonly works in conjunction with packages like nameref and hyperref for cross-referencing.
- Helps maintain consistent and professional document appearance by cleaning up title formatting.
- Particularly useful in large documents with extensive cross-referencing systems.
- Operates automatically without requiring direct user intervention.
Getting Started
To use gettitlestring, include it in your document preamble:
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gettitlestring}
This package is primarily intended for package authors who need to clean up title strings by removing \label commands. It's automatically used by packages like nameref that typeset title strings.
Examples
Using gettitlestring to clean up title references in a document with nameref.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{gettitlestring}
\usepackage{nameref}
\begin{document}
\section{Introduction\label{sec:intro}}
This is the introduction section.
\section{Methodology}
As we discussed in the \nameref{sec:intro}, this methodology builds on previous work.
\section{Results with Complex Title \textbf{and} Formatting\label{sec:results}}
Here are our results.
\section{Conclusion}
The \nameref{sec:results} show significant improvements over baseline methods.
\end{document}