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There are good answers already on how to refer to the title of the section; and both the title and the number of the section

What I want to do is use the part of the Title; rather than the whole of the title. 

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction: this is the first theory}
\label{intro}
In the  \nameref{intro}...
\end{document}

I want to get "In the Introduction" rather than "In the Introduction: this is the first theory".

Tiuri
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  • Can you provide any rule how TeX/LaTeX etc. should determine which part of the title is interesting? ;-) And you have some typos in your document... –  Aug 27 '17 at 19:17
  • ok, I have corrected the type. I was thinking if there is a way to directly tell the Title when assigning the label for example. \label[Introduction]{intro} – Dellu Aug 27 '17 at 19:20

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The \chapter macro takes an optional argument that is used instead of the proper title (for printing) in the table of contents and in references. So to have \nameref{intro} print just Introduction, you just need to supply this short title as the optional argument:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{document}
\chapter[Introduction]{Introduction: this is the first theory}
\label{intro}
In the  \nameref{intro}...
\end{document}

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  • Basically, this answers the question. But, I still need this to work for subsections. Supplying optional text for subsections doesn't seem to work. – Dellu Aug 27 '17 at 19:48
  • It works the same way for all levels (just tested it). If it doesn't work for you, than something else in your code is interfering. – Tiuri Aug 27 '17 at 19:48
  • oh, thanks. Yes, it is working. Just find out that the Table of contents also changes. I was not expecting that. I will try @christian's solution. – Dellu Aug 27 '17 at 20:11
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If the optional argument of the \chapter command should not be used but 'any' another free text, there are some ways, e.g. redefining \@currentlabelname to use \nameref still.

I provide a way with the powerful zref package for a new command named \labelshort[optional text]{labelname} and \nameshortref and establishing a new label property shorttitle and having some more flexibility.

Use the optional argument of \nameshortref to add some more explanatory text or correct grammar. 

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{xparse}
\usepackage[user,hyperref]{zref}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\makeatletter
\providecommand{\@currentshorttitle}{}
\zref@newprop{shorttitle}{\@currentshorttitle}
\zref@addprop{main}{shorttitle}

\NewDocumentCommand{\labelshort}{om}{%
  \begingroup
  \IfValueT{#1}{%
    \renewcommand{\@currentshorttitle}{#1}%
    \zlabel{#2}%
  }%
  \endgroup
  \label{#2}%
}

\NewDocumentCommand{\nameshortref}{O{}m}{%
  \zref@ifrefundefined{#2}{%
  }{%
    \hyperlink{\zref@extract{#2}{anchor}}{#1\zref@extract{#2}{shorttitle}}%
  }%
}

\begin{document}
\chapter{Introduction: this is the first theory}
\labelshort[Introduction]{intro}

\section{Foo section}\labelshort[Foo]{foosect}

\clearpage

See \nameshortref[In the ]{intro} or \nameref{intro} or \nameshortref[in the ]{foosect}
\end{document}

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