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Get the title instead of number of a referenced chapter?

Is it possible to use \ref{chap:conclusion} to refer to the actual name of the chapter instead of the chapter counter in LaTeX? So that I can do this:

See the \ref{chap:conclusion} chapter for more information

See the Conclusion chapter for more information

instead of:

See Chapter \ref{chap:conclusion} for more

See Chapter 6 for more

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  • I think we've done this before: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1491842/references-with-text-in-latex. In addition http://stackoverflow.com/questions/943907/latex-links and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/522838/how-do-i-emit-the-text-content-of-a-reference-in-latex are closely related. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Apr 11 '10 at 19:48
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    BTW-- I think that this versions has a more searchable title and should not be deleted. – dmckee --- ex-moderator kitten Apr 11 '10 at 19:49
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    The memoir package, among other, implements this. More information here: http://www.tex.ac.uk/cgi-bin/texfaq2html?label=nameref – Olivier Apr 10 '10 at 13:33

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You could use the nameref package:

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{nameref}

\begin{document}

\section{Me, myself and I} 
\label{intro}
Hi, my name is Bart.

\section{Summary}
I introduced myself in section: \nameref{intro}.

\end{document}

produces:

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