shortname for captions to insert as reference

[shimizukawa]

When you reference to a figure with a long caption you get a very long reference text. Sphinx should provide a shortname or referencename option for figures which are used as text in references or even better reference to a number as is done in LaTeX.

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• Bitbucket: https://bitbucket.org/birkenfeld/sphinx/issue/401
• Originally reported by: Jan Ulrich Hasecke
• Originally created at: 2010-05-01T16:32:16.239

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2010-08-05 17:38:52+00:00

Targeting for 1.1.

[shimizukawa]

From Georg Brandl on 2013-03-31 13:57:17+00:00

Removing version: 0.6.4 (automated comment)

[shimizukawa]

Since 1.3 release, Sphinx has a :numref: feature.