fmarotta
commented
5 years ago This is a good question, thank you. I think this post will be helpful: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/312060/how-to-reference-sections-in-other-parts-mentioning-the-part, but note that some more work is required besides copying-and-pasting the code from that answer into the template files.
First of all, that code does not print the name of the part, but only the number. Secondly, it actually works only if the parts are numbered, but in kaobook I tend to use \addpart instead of \part, so my parts are not numbered. I found a quick and dirty solution which you can try by adding the following into the references.sty file. Then, you can use \zlabch and \zrefch to achieve what you want.
\RequirePackage[counter,user,hyperref]{zref}
\newcommand*\parttitle{}
% Redefine \addpart so as to store the part title into the \parttitle command
% NOTE: if you use \part, you should redefine that command in a similar way
\let\oldaddpart\addpart
\renewcommand*{\addpart}[2][]{%
\ifx\\#1\\% optional argument not present?
\oldaddpart{#2}%
\renewcommand*\parttitle{#2}%
\else
\oldaddpart[#1]{#2}%
\renewcommand*\parttitle{#1}%
\fi
}
% Create new props for chapter references
\zref@newlist{chapterprop}
\zref@newprop{thepart}[-1]{\thepart}
\zref@newprop{parttitle}[-1]{\parttitle}
\zref@newprop{chapterinfo}[-1]{\number\value{chapter}}
% When labelling a chapter, create both a regular label and a zref label
\newcommand{\zlabch}[1]{%
\label{ch:#1}%
\zref@labelbyprops{zch:#1}{thepart,parttitle,chapterinfo,anchor,counter}%
}
% Use the regular label to obtain info about the chapter, and the zref label to obtain info about the part
\newcommand{\zrefch}[1]{%
% Check first whether the label is defined at all, otherwise
% \Countercref etc. would fail!
\zref@ifrefundefined{zch:#1}{}{%
% Preexpand some information
\edef\@tmp@a{\zref@extract{zch:#1}{parttitle}}%
\edef\@tmp@b{\parttitle}%
\ifx\@tmp@b\@tmp@a\relax% Compare the part titles
\frefch{#1} in this \partname%
\else
\frefch{#1} in \zref@extract{zch:#1}{parttitle}%
\fi
}%
}Right now we are about to release a new version of the template to latextemplates.com, so I'd rather not make any changes besides those necessary for the version bump, but right after that I will update the reference.sty package with new zref-based commands. If possible, I would like to have only one command for the labelling (i.e. \labch should work with \zrefch as well), and I hope to find a more elegant way to obtain the \parttitle. I will also add the \refsubsec commands. In the meantime, I hope that the solution I proposed above will work for you. Please let me know about any problems.
doublehourglass
I try to get a part name a chapter, section, subsection resides in. So far I only managed to find
\p@chapterthat adds prefix to the counter. That works, but I cannot make it universal. I mean, I see no way to add another function like the ones fromreferences.stythat could show a reference like: "Chapter B (Some title) on page 33 in Appendix". Is there a way to do that (appendix here is obviously a part)? As a side note - I found that there are norefsubsecand similar functions. I added them on my own as I use subsections quite often, but think they could be generally useful in kaobook as well.