\ref{} only prints the counter without fancy stuff

Question

Here's a MWE that shows what I'm doing:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,blindtext, enumitem}

\setlist[enumerate]{
  label={$\square$ {\small\oldstylenums{\arabic*}}},
  leftmargin=2em,
}
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \label{first} An item
    \item \label{second} A second item
\end{enumerate}
See point \ref{first}, but avoid looking at \ref{second}!
\end{document}

In the output, What I see is

See point ▢ 1, but avoid looking at ▢ 2!

Of course I would like to remove the "▢" symbol. Is there a way to do it?

You mean as an option of enumitem? That's fine; I didn't know how to search for it. — fosco, Jun 23 '17 at 12:25
You can view & refer this at enumitem documentation, you may use this command in DOS prompt >texdoc enumitem ... — Kumaresh PS, Jun 23 '17 at 15:23
I'm perfectly aware of the fact that each package comes with a documentation. What I didn't know was that enumitem provides a feature that solves my problem — fosco, Jun 23 '17 at 15:25

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 02 '17 at 03:09

One can also specify ref separately from label with \setlist. See page 3 of the enumitem manual.

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{amsmath,amsfonts,amssymb,blindtext, enumitem}

\setlist[enumerate]{
  label={$\square$ {\small\oldstylenums{\arabic*}}},
  leftmargin=2em,
  ref={\arabic*}
}
\
\begin{document}
\blindtext
\begin{enumerate}
    \item \label{first} An item
    \item \label{second} A second item
\end{enumerate}
See point \ref{first}, but avoid looking at \ref{second}!
\end{document}

\ref{} only prints the counter without fancy stuff

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