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It's one hour that I'm trying to change the name of reference from "Equation 1" to "(eq.1)". I found the following code

\usepackage{hyperref}
\def\equationautorefname~#1\null{Equation (#1)\null}

but it does not change anything. I thought it was a conflict with amsmath, but even eliminating it, it does not work. How can I implement that without loosing cross-reference link or without simply writing ref comand between parenthesis?

As stiffly requested, there's an example code.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[english]{babel}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true, allcolors=blue]{hyperref}

\begin{document}


There is the equation \autoref{eq:test}\
\begin{equation}
\label{eq:test}
1+1=2
\end{equation}


\end{document}

Result: enter image description here

ahahfilip
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2 Answers2

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With a current LaTeX you can make use of \labelformat and actually don't need autoref:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{hyperref}


\labelformat{equation}{(eq.~#1)}
\def\equationautorefname#1{}%for autoref, gobble the space
\begin{document}


\begin{equation}    
    E=mc^2  \label{eq:einstein}
\end{equation}

See the great equation \ref{eq:einstein}, \autoref{eq:einstein}.



\end{document}

enter image description here

Ulrike Fischer
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  • It kinda works, but I have the package \usepackage[english]{babel} that write down "Equation (eq.1)" and not only "(eq.1)". I'll upload a good example to the main post now. – ahahfilip Dec 07 '22 at 20:30
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    sorry but I won't expand my answer. Next time provide an example directly. – Ulrike Fischer Dec 07 '22 at 20:42
  • Don't mind, thank you anyway! At least I'm closer to the answer due to your contribute :) – ahahfilip Dec 07 '22 at 20:47
  • I just realized that using \ref instead of \autoref does the tricks using your solution! :P Thanks again! :) – ahahfilip Dec 08 '22 at 12:58
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This answer is based on schtandard's answer who said

A bit of a dirty hack, but this works as long as hyperref does not change its \autoref implementation.

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\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath}
\usepackage{hyperref}


\renewcommand\equationautorefname{(eq.}


%From https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/584601/161015
\makeatletter
\AtBeginDocument{%
    \let\plain@equationautorefname\equationautorefname
    \def\equationautorefname{\plain@equationautorefname@autoref@insert@tagform}%
    \def@autoref@insert@tagform~#1\null{,#1)\null}%
}
\makeatother


\begin{document}


\begin{equation}    
    E=mc^2  \label{eq:einstein}
\end{equation}

See the great equation \autoref{eq:einstein}.



\end{document}
Simon Dispa
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