The idea is to place \LBL{some_label_name} in a paragraph so that I can refer back to the particular point inside that paragraph where the \LBL was placed. I would like to define the macro for \LBL.
Unfortunately the \label must be placed inside an environment with a counter. I tried phantomsection but the label picks up the true section counter. I'm using the hyperref package.
How can I achieve this, what would the \def for \LBL look like?
There are many ways. The following is using \refstepcounter that generates implicitly an anchor. Also instead of a section number \theword is redefined to get the word instead, if called by \ref.
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\newcounter{word}
\makeatletter
\newcommand*{\LBL}{%
\@dblarg\@LBL
}
\def\@LBL[#1]#2{%
\begingroup
\renewcommand*{\theword}{#2}%
\refstepcounter{word}%
\label{#1}%
#2%
\endgroup
}
\makeatother
\begin{document}
The \ref{word} is referenced.
\lipsum*[1] \LBL{word} \lipsum[2]
\end{document}
If the word is complicate that it cannot be used as label name, then the optional argument helps: \LBL[labelword]{weird word} … \ref{labelword}.
