The package hyperref

The package xcolor

The package babel

HYPERREF

The package hyperref provides LaTeX the ability to create hyperlinks within the document. It works with pdflatex and also with standard "latex" used with dvips and ghostscript or dvipdfm to build a PDF file. If you load it, you will have the possibility to include interactive external links and all your internal references will be turned to hyperlinks. The compiler pdflatex makes it possible to create PDF files directly from the LaTeX source, and PDF supports more features than DVI. In particular PDF supports hyperlinks. Moreover, PDF can contain other information about a document such as the title, the author, etc., which can be edited using this same package.

Implementing hyperref
Autoref
Nameref
Outside documents

How to implement hyperref

At the beginning of your LaTeX document, where the other packages are listed, simply add the following code:

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\usepackage{hyperref}

autoref

The following code

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\autoref{}

creates a reference with additional text corresponding to the target's type, all of which will be a hyperlink. For example, the command

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\autoref{sec:intro}

would create a hyperlink to the

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\label{sec:intro}

wherever it is.

nameref

The hyperref package also automatically includes the nameref package, and a similarly named command. It is similar to

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\autoref{}

but inserts a text corresponding to the section name. For example, this output "In section MyFirstSection we defined..." is generated by the following code:

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\section{MyFirstSection} \label{sec:marker}
            \section{MySecondSection}
            In section~\nameref{sec:marker} we defined...

Outside documents

The package provides some useful commands for inserting links pointing outside the document.

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\hyperref[label_name]{''link text''}

This will have the same effect as

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\ref{label_name}

but will make the text link text a full link, instead.