The words chapter, part, appendix, table, figure, and the like are lowercased and spelled out in text (though sometimes abbreviated in parenthetical references).
(Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., section 8.178)
MWE:
\documentclass{scrartcl}
\usepackage[demo]{graphicx}
\usepackage{cleveref}
\begin{document}
\section{Geometric abstraction}
\Cref{myfig} shows a black square. For a black square, please refer to \cref{myfig}. Squares can be black (cf.\ \cref{myfig}).
\begin{figure}
\centering
\includegraphics[width=6cm,height=6cm]{fig1.pdf}
\caption[asd]{Kazimir Malevich. \textit{Black Square.} 1915. Oil on canvas. State Russian Museum, St Petersburg.}
\label{myfig}
\end{figure}
\end{document}
MWE produces:
What I am looking for:
Is there a clever (sorry) way to achieve this with cleveref
? I know that \Cref{}
will always produce the full form, capitalized reference, so that is a good start. But how would I handle the non-parenthetical reference in mid-sentence?