Lightweight equivalent of \cref and \Cref

Question

I'm trying to convert my LaTeX document to HTML using HeVeA and I'm facing a problem with cleveref package -- my LaTeX file uses \cref and \Cref heavily, but hevea doesn't support this package by default.

First thing I tried was importing whole cleveref.sty -- that somehow didn't work, I was also looking at cleveref source, but that is a little too complex for me :-)

So the question is -- how do you think is a best way to do references in document that is supposed to be converted with HeVeA?

example of this is really trivial:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\begin{document}
\section{A}
\label{x}
\Cref{x}, \cref{x}.
\end{document}

run pdflatex on this twice and you get a nice pdf with 'Section 1, section 1'. HeVeA fails with Command not found: \Cref

Answer 1

As mentioned in the comments, cleveref actually has a way that you can fix this.

Let's say that your file looks something like this

myfile.tex

\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{cleveref}

\begin{document}

\section{My section}\label{sec:test}
We see in \cref{sec:test} that ...
\end{document}

When you want to get the benefits of cleveref but without using cref and friends, then you load

\usepackage[poorman]{cleveref}

and then recompile. This produces the file myfile.sed (which has a lot of lines). Now run

sed -f myfile.sed myfile.tex> mynewfile.tex

which gives

myfilenew.tex

\documentclass{article}



\begin{document}

\section{My section}\label{sec:test}
We see in section\nobreakspace \ref {sec:test} that ...
\end{document}

You now have a file that has all the benefits of cleveref but without any of the manual labour- sweet!