Simultaneously get all forms of name reference

Question

Is there a possibility of getting (within the same document) the various form of a chapter or section title, similarly to what the nameref package does (possibly not conflicting with loading hyperref), e.g.:

The following minimal working example lets me get My moderately long chapter title and My moderately long section title, but I would like to get My short chapter title and My very long, rich and complex chapter title (and section counterparts) in a similar manner.

\documentclass[11pt]{book}

% nameref is imported by hyperref
\usepackage{hyperref} % Extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX

\begin{document}

\chapter[My moderately long chapter title]{My very long, rich and complex chapter title}
\chaptermark{My short chapter title}
\label{chapter_title}

Some text.

\section[My moderately long section title]{My very long, rich and complex section title}
\label{section_title}

Some text.
\nameref{chapter_title}, \nameref{section_title}.

\end{document}

Is there a way to achieve this? Ideally, it would be something like:

• \longnameref{chapter_title} -> My very long, rich and complex chapter title
• \middlenameref{chapter_title} -> My moderately long chapter title
• \shortnameref{chapter_title} -> My short chapter title

and the respective section counterparts.

Answer 1

This is a modified version of the code from https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/388510/103046.

I used the very powerful zref package and defined new label properties named shorttitle, marktitle and longtitle which use the short section title, the chapter mark title or the long title after \refstepcounter and \label is applied.

The \chaptermark macro is changed slightly in order to define \@currentmarktitle which is expanded and stored with \zlabel at its usage.

The macros \shortnameref, \longnameref and \middlenameref check first whether the label is defined and if this is true, add the hyperlink automatically.

\documentclass[11pt]{book}
\usepackage{xpatch}

\usepackage[user,hyperref]{zref}

\makeatletter

% Empty dummy macros
\providecommand{\@currentshorttitle}{}
\providecommand{\@currentlongtitle}{}
\providecommand{\@currentmarktitle}{}

\zref@newprop{shorttitle}{\@currentshorttitle}
\zref@newprop{longtitle}{\@currentlongtitle}
\zref@newprop{marktitle}{\@currentmarktitle}
\zref@addprops{main}{shorttitle,longtitle,marktitle}


\NewDocumentCommand{\shortnameref}{m}{%
  \zref@ifrefundefined{#1}{%
  }{%
    \hyperlink{\zref@extract{#1}{anchor}}{\zref@extract{#1}{shorttitle}}%
  }%
}

\NewDocumentCommand{\longnameref}{m}{%
  \zref@ifrefundefined{#1}{%
  }{%
    \hyperlink{\zref@extract{#1}{anchor}}{\zref@extract{#1}{longtitle}}%
  }%
}

\NewDocumentCommand{\middlenameref}{m}{%
  \zref@ifrefundefined{#1}{%
  }{%
    \hyperlink{\zref@extract{#1}{anchor}}{\zref@extract{#1}{marktitle}}%
  }%
}


\xpretocmd{\chaptermark}{\def\@currentmarktitle{#1}}{}{}% Let \chaptermark define \@currentmarktitle{}

\xpatchcmd{\@chapter}{%
  \refstepcounter{chapter}%
}{%
  \def\@currentshorttitle{#1}%
  \def\@currentlongtitle{#2}%
  \refstepcounter{chapter}%
}{\typeout{Success}}{}

\xpatchcmd{\@sect}{%
  \refstepcounter{#1}%
}{%
  \def\@currentmarktitle{}%
  \def\@currentshorttitle{#7}%
  \def\@currentlongtitle{#8}%
  \refstepcounter{#1}%
}{\typeout{Success again}}{}



\usepackage{hyperref} % Extensive support for hypertext in LaTeX

\AtBeginDocument{
\let\latex@@label\label
\RenewDocumentCommand{\label}{m}{%
  \latex@@label{#1}%
  \zlabel{#1}%
}
}
\makeatother



\begin{document}

\chapter[My moderately long chapter title]{My very long, rich and complex chapter title}
\chaptermark{My short chapter title}
\label{chapter_title}

Some text.

\section[My moderately long section title]{My very long, rich and complex section title}
\label{section_title}

\subsection[My moderately long subsection title]{My very long, rich and complex subsection title} \label{subsection_title}


Some text.

\clearpage
\tiny
\renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.5}
\begin{tabular}{llll}
  chapter & \longnameref{chapter_title} & \shortnameref{chapter_title} & \middlenameref{chapter_title}\tabularnewline
  section & \longnameref{section_title} & \shortnameref{section_title} & \tabularnewline
  subsection & \longnameref{subsection_title} & \shortnameref{subsection_title} & \tabularnewline
\end{tabular}

\end{document}