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General support for references to the name of a Section/Chapter/etc. rather than its number.

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Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/1178

Originally posted by fuhrmanator June 18, 2022
In books it is very useful to refer to a section by its name. The Quarto documentation does this, e.g. the link to "Cross references" on this line:

https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web/blob/eed8baacea8448cd2ec60e34250ad2215de6831f/docs/authoring/figures.qmd#L25

But it's done with a hyperlink to an absolute HTML page.

Another example is within a page:

https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-web/blob/eed8baacea8448cd2ec60e34250ad2215de6831f/docs/authoring/cross-references.qmd#L26

There's an anchor generated through ## Options {#options}. It seems to be HTML-specific.

In LaTeX, it's done by \nameref{sec-blahblah} and I see that quarto supports this for PDF output.

Are there plans to make this work with @sec-blahblah for other render destinations (e.g. html)? I'm thinking something like [caption@sec-blahblah] as a general solution.

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