Cross-referencing within text

Question

Is there a way to reference a place in the text using \hyperref, instead of using \nameref to reference the section that portion of text belongs to?

Probably a WME will help in getting my point across:

\documentclass[onecolumn,twoside]{revtex4}

\usepackage{xpatch}% http://ctan.org/pkg/xpatch
\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\@ssect@ltx}{\@xsect}{\protected@edef\@currentlabelname{#8}\@xsect}{}{}%    Patch \<section>*
\xpatchcmd{\@sect@ltx}{\@xsect}{\protected@edef\@currentlabelname{#8}\@xsect}{}{}% Patch \<section>
\makeatother
\usepackage{hyperref}% http://ctan.org/pkg/hyperref

hypersetup{pdfstartview=FitH,pdfpagemode=UseNone}

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\affiliation{Affiliation}

\maketitle

\section*{FirstSection--$E \times H$ vs.$\ \textbf{E} \times \textbf{H}$}
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\bf I want to return here, not at the beginning of FirstSection \rm    \label{sec:marker1} \nameref{sec:marker2}
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\section*{SecondSection} \label{sec:marker2}
You can also see in \nameref{sec:marker1} that \ldots
\end{document}

Answer 1

Issue a \phantomsection just before marking the \label. \phantomsection sets a PDF mark for subsequent \labels that the accompanying \ref will jump to (forward or backward). See section 4 Additional user macros of the hyperref documentation.

Here is your minimal example showing the location:

\documentclass[onecolumn,twoside]{revtex4}

\usepackage{xpatch}% http://ctan.org/pkg/xpatch
\makeatletter
\xpatchcmd{\@ssect@ltx}{\@xsect}{\protected@edef\@currentlabelname{#8}\@xsect}{}{}%    Patch \<section>*
\xpatchcmd{\@sect@ltx}{\@xsect}{\protected@edef\@currentlabelname{#8}\@xsect}{}{}% Patch \<section>
\makeatother
\usepackage{hyperref}% http://ctan.org/pkg/hyperref

\hypersetup{pdfstartview=FitH,pdfpagemode=UseNone}

\begin{document}

\title{Title}
\author{Author}
\affiliation{Affiliation}

\maketitle

\section*{\texorpdfstring{FirstSection--$E \times H$ vs.$\ \textbf{E} \times \textbf{H}$}{FirstSection-E x H vs. E x H}}
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\bf I want to return here, not at the beginning of FirstSection \rm \phantomsection   \label{sec:marker1} \nameref{sec:marker2}
text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text text 

\section*{SecondSection} \label{sec:marker2}
You can also see in \nameref{sec:marker1} that \ldots
\end{document}

In the above example, you'll notice the use of \texorpdfstring{<tex>}{<pdf>} which eliminates your hyperref warnings regarding bookmarks.

Answer 2

You can define your own block which you refer to. Take a look at this example and see if it works for you.

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{lipsum}
\usepackage{hyperref}

\newcommand{\placeref}[1]{%
    \newcounter{foo}%
    \refstepcounter{foo}\label{#1}}


\begin{document}
Some text here: this is where we \placeref{goplace} go.

\lipsum[30]

\newpage 
Take a look at page \ref{goplace} for details. 

\end{document}