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I am using a combination of refcount and fmtcount to allow chapter references to produce a string (based on the solution to Macro to generate ordinal words from numbers?). However, I have found that when using hyperref such references lose their link.

A minimal working example is:

\documentclass{book}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{fmtcount}
\usepackage{refcount}

\newcommand{\chapterref}[1]{%
    \Numberstringnum{\getrefnumber{#1}}}

\begin{document}
\chapter{The First Chapter}\label{cha:first}
Hello, this is a chapter.

\chapter{The Second Chapter}\label{cha:second}
In Chapter~\chapterref{cha:first} we did very little indeed. In Chapter~\ref{cha:second} we have done a little more.

\end{document}

Which produces this for the second chapter:

MWE ouput

The reference produced with the \chapterref command has no link whereas the reference produced with the conventional \ref command does.

Any suggestions as to how to incorporate hyperref?

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Tom Brien
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1 Answers1

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Just wrap \hyperref around the reference:

\documentclass{book}

\usepackage{fmtcount}
\usepackage{refcount}
\usepackage[colorlinks]{hyperref}

\newcommand{\chapterref}[1]{%
  \hyperref[#1]{\Numberstringnum{\getrefnumber{#1}}}%
}

\begin{document}
\chapter{The First Chapter}\label{cha:first}
Hello, this is a chapter.

\chapter{The Second Chapter}\label{cha:second}

In Chapter~\chapterref{cha:first} we did very little indeed.
In Chapter~\ref{cha:second} we have done a little more.

\end{document}

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egreg
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  • @TomBrien: Perhaps you did not have hyperref after the other packages ;-) –  Mar 10 '15 at 15:21
  • Actually no I went through the undo history, it was fine except the braces for hyperref were misplaced. Oh well live and learn – Tom Brien Mar 10 '15 at 15:43