It would be good to support this.

My understanding is that \autoref{foo} should be parsed as

Link ("",[],[]) [Str "Section\160\&1"] ("#foo","")

if foo is the label on the section numbered 1, and

Link ("",[],[]) [Str "Figure\160\&2"] ("#foo","")

if foo is the label on the figure numbered 2, and so on.

Now that we have localized names Figure and Section, as well as numbers, we should be able to do this.

Cleveref's cref and Cref also have the localized names: ref-example.pdf

\cref{foo} and \Cref{foo} should be parsed like autoref.

One problem is that our localized terms don't include Section, let alone Subsection.

Anyway, what would be needed for this change is:

• localizations for Section
• change sLabels in T.P.Readers.LaTeX.Parsing so that it records the type (or localized term) in addition to the number associated with a reference
• change functions that add to sLabels to add this information
• change resolveRefs in T.P.Readers.LaTeX to do something with this information
• change doref in T.P.Readers.LaTeX.Inline so we can distinguish the different reference commands when we get to resolveRefs

Any news on this topic?

There's a roadmap above of what needs to be done. A first step would be localizations for Section for 48 languages. data/translations is where this would go.

+1 feature request on \cref and \autoref.

converting latex to typst, i'm seeing \cref{...} turned into #link(...) (should be #ref(...)) and the capitalized version \Cref{...} get swallowed (i.e. replaced with nothing)

Re localizations, I did find this on my system:

% grep  'providetranslation{Section}' /opt/homebrew/share/texmf-dist/tex/latex/translator/*.dict | sed -e 's/.*basic-dictionary-//'
Bulgarian.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Сечение}
Catalan.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Secció}
Croatian.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Odjeljak}
Czech.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Odd\'il}
Danish.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Sektion}
Dutch.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Paragraaf}
English.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Section}
French.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Section}
German.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Abschnitt}
Greek.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{En'othta}
Italian.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Paragrafo}
Norsk.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Avsnitt}
Nynorsk.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Avsnitt}
Polish.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Sekcja}
Russian.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Раздел}
Serbian.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Odeljak}
Spanish.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Sección}
Swedish.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{Avsnitt}
Turkish.dict:\providetranslation{Section}{B\"{o}l\"{u}m}

That's a start, but it leaves a lot of the languages we support out.

It looks like we're adding a special reference-type attribute to the links produced by \cref, etc. I don't currently recall whether anything else in pandoc consumes this class, but in principle we could have typst attend to it and emit #ref in this case.