Cross-reference to unnumbered SUBsections

Question

In my memoir document, all the subsections are unnumbered but are listed in the TOC. Is there some way to exploit cleveref (and hyperref) so as to cross-reference subsections that's more direct than the following?

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}

\setsecnumdepth{subsection}
\settocdepth{subsection}
\setlength{\cftsubsectionindent}{5.25em}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage[noabbrev,capitalize]{cleveref}
\crefname{subsection}{subsection}{subsection}    % not used?
\Crefname{subsection}{Subsection}{Subsection}
\crefname{page}{page}{page}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{The Chapter}

\subsection*{A particular situation}%
\label{subsec:particular}
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{\nameref{subsec:particular}}

\lipsum[1]

\newpage

\subsection*{Another subsection}
\label{subsec:another}
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{\nameref{subsec:another}}

See subsection~``\nameref*{subsec:particular}'' (\cpageref{subsec:particular}).

\noindent See subsection~``\nameref{subsec:particular}'' (\cpageref{subsec:particular}).

\end{document}

From the output:

Of course I can define a macro to do the \subsection*{...}\label{...}\addcontentsline... creation, and another to do the cross-referencing:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}

\setsecnumdepth{subsection}
\settocdepth{subsection}
\setlength{\cftsubsectionindent}{5.25em}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage[noabbrev,capitalize]{cleveref}
\crefname{subsection}{subsection}{subsection}    % not used?
\Crefname{subsection}{Subsection}{Subsection}
\crefname{page}{page}{page}

\newcommand{\subsec}[2]{%
\subsection*{#1}\label{subsec:#2}%
\addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{\nameref{subsec:#2}}%
}

\usepackage{suffix}

\newcommand{\subsecref}[1]{%
subsection~``\nameref{subsec:#1}'' (\cpageref{subsec:#1})%
}
\WithSuffix\newcommand\subsecref*[1]{%
subsection~``\nameref*{subsec:#1}'' (\cpageref{subsec:#1})%
}

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{The Chapter}

\section{This stuff}\label{sec:stuff}

\subsec{A particular situation}{particular}

\lipsum[1]

\newpage

\subsec{Another subsection}{another}

See \subsecref{another}.

\noindent See \subsecref*{another}.

\end{document}

(The output will be the same as before.)

Is there no way to use cleveref, or otherwise, to automatically include "subsection" in the cross-reference (just as a \cref would do for a section)?

Have you tried \subsection*{foo}\label[subsection]{subsec:foo}? But as there is no counter involved, \label is pretty useless — , Dec 27 '16 at 17:42
Evidently form my source & output, including a \label does allow cross-referencing. But I'd like LaTeX to "know" somehow that I'm referencing a subsection! — murray, Dec 27 '16 at 17:50
Well, that is the problem: A \label needs a counter information, however, you don't use numbered subsections. — , Dec 27 '16 at 17:53

egreg · Accepted Answer · 2016-12-27T18:28:15.330

Define your own command:

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}

\setsecnumdepth{subsection}
\settocdepth{subsection}
\setlength{\cftsubsectionindent}{5.25em}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage[noabbrev,capitalize]{cleveref}

\crefname{page}{page}{page}
\crefformat{specialsubsection}{#2subsection~``#1''#3}

\newcounter{specialsubsection}
\makeatletter
\newcommand{\specialsubsection}[1]{%
  \subsection*{#1}%
  \addcontentsline{toc}{subsection}{#1}%
  \refstepcounter{specialsubsection}%
  \def\cref@currentlabel{[specialsubsection][\arabic{specialsubsection}][]#1}%
  \def\@currentlabelname{#1}%
}
\makeatother

\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{The Chapter}

\section{Whatever}

\specialsubsection{A particular situation}%
\label{subsec:particular}

\lipsum[1]

\newpage

\specialsubsection{Another subsection}
\label{subsec:another}

See \cref*{subsec:particular} (\cpageref{subsec:particular}).

\noindent See \cref{subsec:particular} (\cpageref{subsec:particular}).

\noindent See \cref{subsec:another} (\cpageref{subsec:another}).

\end{document}

Text

Hard to choose between the answers of Christian Hupfer and egreg. I somewhat favor the latter because (1) it doesn't mess with low-level code from memoir, and (2) is a bit more flexible as to whether I can include or exclude the subsection page reference, too. I'll accept egreg's, though Hupfer's certainly solves the problem, too. Thanks both! — murray, Dec 29 '16 at 04:05

score 3 · Answer 2 · edited Dec 27 '16 at 22:53

Similar to egreg's solution, with special commands for the nameref and a 'slightly' modified \subsection command.

\documentclass[12pt]{memoir}


\setsecnumdepth{section}
\settocdepth{subsection}
\setlength{\cftsubsectionindent}{5.25em}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{xparse}%
\usepackage[colorlinks=true,linkcolor=red]{hyperref}
\usepackage[noabbrev,capitalize]{cleveref}

\crefname{subsection}{subsection}{subsection}    % not used?
\Crefname{subsection}{Subsection}{Subsection}
\crefname{page}{page}{page}

\newcommand{\cnameref}[1]{%
  \namecref{#1}\ "\nameref{#1}" (\cpageref{#1})%
}

\newcommand{\Cnameref}[1]{%
  \nameCref{#1}\ "\nameref{#1}" (\cpageref{#1})%
}

\usepackage{letltxmacro}

\makeatletter
\LetLtxMacro\@@memoir@subsection\subsection

\RenewDocumentCommand{\subsection}{somo}{%
  \IfBooleanTF{#1}{%
    \@@memoir@subsection*{#3}%
  }{%
    \edef\@toctitle{#3}
    \IfValueT{#2}{%
      \edef\@toctitle{#2}
    }
    \refstepcounter{subsection}% Since it is unnumbered anyway ;-)
    \IfValueTF{#4}{%
      \@@memoir@subsection[\@toctitle]{#3}[#4]%
    }{%
      \@@memoir@subsection[\@toctitle]{#3}%
    }
    \edef\@currentlabelname{#3}% Set the \nameref information to #3
  }%
}

\makeatother

\setlength{\parindent}{0em}
\begin{document}

\tableofcontents

\chapter{The Chapter}

\section{This stuff}\label{sec:stuff}


\subsection{A particular situation}\label{subsec:particular}

\lipsum[1]

\newpage

\subsection{Another subsection}\label{subsec:another}

See \cnameref{subsec:particular} 

or 

\cnameref{subsec:another}

or

\Cnameref{subsec:another}

See \cnameref{sec:stuff}

\end{document}

Cross-reference to unnumbered SUBsections

2 Answers2

Contents

Text

Linked