How to change \ref output?

Question

I am writing my Greek PhD thesis in latex (using babel). FYI, by default Τable in Greece is called: Πίνακας. So, for example, when I make a table using the table environment, babel automatically translates the word Table as Πίνακας 1. blabla.

Hence when I use \ref{tab:label} to crossreference to this table, the output of this command is "Πίνακας 1. blabla", as you would expect.

However, because of the Greek language's particularity which has many ways to call nouns, I would therefore like to change the output of the \ref{tab:label} to "Πίνακα 1. blabla" (please note that the difference is the missing ς at the end of the tablename).

How could I do this?

Please have in mind that I want to change only the way the tablename is referenced in the text after calling the \ref command and not the name that appears in the caption (which is correctly transformed by babel as Πίνακας)

Answer 1

To add the name of the thing you are referencing to (table, figure, etc.) you can use the cleveref package. As I see from babel when using greek, it automatically changes the table name to Πίνακας 1. So you only need to change the way of referencing it. You achieve this by redefining the table format with \crefformat{element}{new format}.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[greek]{babel}
% Clever references
\usepackage{cleveref}

% Change the name of the reference
\crefformat{table}{P'inaka. #1}

\begin{document}
\cref{tab:dummy} bla bla bla.

\begin{table}[ht]
  \centering
  \rule{8cm}{4.5cm}
  \caption{A dummy table}\label{tab:dummy}
\end{table}

\end{document}

I'm not sure if this is what you are doing. I would need to see a MWE to help you better.