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%% The LaTeX Companion, 2ed (second printing August 2004)
%%
%% Example 2-4-7 on page 76.
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%% Copyright (C) 2004 Frank Mittelbach, Michel Goossens,
%%    Johannes Braams, David Carlisle, and Chris Rowley
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%% It may be distributed and/or modified under the conditions
%% of the LaTeX Project Public License, either version 1.3
%% of this license or (at your option) any later version.
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%% See http://www.latex-project.org/lppl.txt for details.
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\documentclass{ttctexa}
\pagestyle{empty}
\setcounter{page}{6}
\setlength\textwidth{159.0pt}
\setcounter{section}{3}
\StartShownPreambleCommands
\usepackage{prettyref}
\newrefformat{sec}{Section~\ref{#1}}
\StopShownPreambleCommands
\begin{document}
\section{A Section}\label{sec:this}
A reference to the equation in this section looks like:
``see \prettyref{eq:a} in \prettyref{sec:this}''.
\begin{equation} a = b \label{eq:a} \end{equation}
\end{document}