Not using abbreviations with cleveref

Question

I’d like to use the cleveref package but I don’t like that it inserts most names as abbreviations; for instance, it will print “… fig. 2.1 …” instead of “… figure 2.1 …”.

Is there a way of changing that without manually changing all the crefnames? There doesn’t seem to be an appropriate option.

Furthermore, when used in conjunction with the hyperref package, only the number is actually linked. The text in front of it (“figure” in my example) isn’t. Can this also be changed (again, without redefining all the commands)?

Answer 1

Hm, there indeed seems to be no option for non-abbreviation, which is annoying, because \Cref does it, only along with capitalization. Looking briefly at the source, we at least have a convenient list I ran through "lowercase selection":

 \AtBeginDocument{%
    \crefname{equation}{equation}{equations}%
    \crefname{chapter}{chapter}{chapters}%
    \crefname{section}{section}{sections}%
    \crefname{appendix}{appendix}{appendices}%
    \crefname{enumi}{item}{items}%
    \crefname{footnote}{footnote}{footnotes}%
    \crefname{figure}{figure}{figures}%
    \crefname{table}{table}{tables}%
    \crefname{theorem}{theorem}{theorems}%
    \crefname{lemma}{lemma}{lemmas}%
    \crefname{corollary}{corollary}{corollaries}%
    \crefname{proposition}{proposition}{propositions}%
    \crefname{definition}{definition}{definitions}%
    \crefname{result}{result}{results}%
    \crefname{example}{example}{examples}%
    \crefname{remark}{remark}{remarks}%
    \crefname{note}{note}{notes}%
}

but I agree that it's clumsy.

Answer 2

There is a new pre-release version (v0.18) of cleveref which supports a noabbrev option which does this automatically. The new version is not yet on CTAN but can be downloaded on the package author's website: http://www.dr-qubit.org/latex.php#cleveref

Answer 3

Furthermore, when used in conjunction with the hyperref package, only the number is actually linked. The text in front of it (“figure” in my example) isn’t. Can this also be changed (again, without redefining all the commands)?

I’ve thrown together the following macro to change this. I’m not particularly satisfied since I still need to maintain a list of all label types but this is the best I got:

\newcommand*\@cref@format[1]{%
  \crefformat{#1}{##2\@nameuse{cref@#1@name}~##1##3}%
  \Crefformat{#1}{##2\@nameuse{Cref@#1@name}~##1##3}}

\newcommand*\@labeltypes{
  algorithm,
  appendix,
  chapter,
  corollary,
  definition,
  enumi,
  equation,
  example,
  figure,
  footnote,
  lemma,
  line,
  note,
  part,
  proposition,
  remark,
  result,
  section,
  table,
  theorem}

\@for\@i:=\@labeltypes\do{%
  \trim@spaces@in\@i
  \expandafter\@cref@format\expandafter{\@i}}

This requires the trimspaces package.

Answer 4

We don't seem to need the \Crefformat part of the above definition by Konrad. I suggest the following.

\usepackage{catoptions}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}[2011/03/22]
% \makeatletter
\def\setupcrefformat{%
  \docommalist{algorithm,appendix,chapter,corollary,definition,
    enumi,equation,example,figure,footnote,lemma,line,note,part,
    proposition,remark,result,section,table,theorem
  }{%
    \crefformat{##1}{####2##1~####1####3}%
    % We don't seem to need the following:
    % \Crefformat{##1}{####2\@nameuse{Cref@##1@name}~####1####3}%
  }%
}
% \makeatother
\setupcrefformat

\docommalist trims leading and trailing spaces around the list elements.