Switch off “on page” for varioref

Question

For referencing I'm using the three packages

\usepackage{varioref}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\usepackage{cleveref}

In the text I cite with \vref, which is redefined by cleveref and does its job very well. Now I have to publish a paper where "on page .." from the varioref needs to much space. Is there an option to switch it off? Or do I have to change everything to \cref?

Answer 1

Check the varioref manual for macros starting with \reftext. You could re-define them to be empty (with \renewcommand* or \def).

\def\reftextfaceafter{}%
\def\reftextfacebefore{}%
\def\reftextafter{}%
\def\reftextbefore{}%
\def\reftextcurrent{}%
\def\reftextfaraway#1{}%
\def\reftextpagerange#1#2{}%
\def\reftextlabelrange#1#2{}%

You could also try to define the macros of varioref to be those of cleveref, e.g.

\let\vref\cref
\let\Vref\Cref
\let\vrefrange\crefrange
% etc.

but changing the \reftext… macros is definitely easier.