Firstaid for cleveref: not necessarily fully expandable \thepage and a proper German abbreviation for section #1382
Description
The package cleveref is unfortunately dead since 2018, and the author has not been responsive so far. Therefore, I've been maintaining my own fixes to cleveref. Let me kindly share them and ask you to incorporate them into firstaid. Two problems are addressed: nondefault or formatted page numbers (cf. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/613934/strange-incompatibility-between-several-packages-options#comment1533879_613934 and https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/619875/greekbabel-cleveref-roman-pagenumbering-label#comment1548033_619885) and abbreviating the German name for section, namely, “Abschnitt”, and its plural into “Abschn.” whenever short forms are requested (the long forms are kept as they were, so the user can still choose them if he/she wishes to).
In the following, I provide two diffs: a comparison of my version with the stable version of cleveref and a comparison of my version with the latest version of cleveref (both the stable cleveref and the latest cleveref are quite old). My cleveref.sty version is called my_improved_cleveref.sty below for clarity.
Comparison to the version on CTAN:
$ diff my_improved_cleveref.sty /usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cleveref/cleveref.sty
12d11
< %% Improved/hacked by ................, 2024.
15,16c14,15
< \def\packagedate{2021/11/02}
< \def\packageversion{0.21.5.2}
---
> \def\packagedate{2018/03/27}
> \def\packageversion{0.21.4}
76c75
< \protected@edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
---
> \edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
88c87
< \protected@edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
---
> \edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
4123,4128c4122
< % \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
---
> \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
4205,4222c4199,4201
< % \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{section}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
---
> \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
4307,4324c4286,4288
< % \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{section}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
---
> \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
8076d8039
< \@crefcopyformats{subsubappendix}{subsubsubappendix}%Comparison to the author's latest version available from his home page:
$ diff my_improved_cleveref.sty cleveref_0.21.5/cleveref.sty
12d11
< %% Improved/hacked by ................, 2024.
15,16c14,15
< \def\packagedate{2021/11/02}
< \def\packageversion{0.21.5.2}
---
> \def\packagedate{2018/10/18}
> \def\packageversion{0.21.5}
76c75
< \protected@edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
---
> \edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
88c87
< \protected@edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
---
> \edef\@tempb{\thepage}%
4123,4128c4122
< % \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
---
> \crefname@preamble{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
4205,4222c4199,4201
< % \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{section}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
---
> \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
4307,4324c4286,4288
< % \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{section}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
< % \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \if@cref@abbrev%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschn.}{Abschn.}%
< \else%
< \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
< \fi%
---
> \crefname{section}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%
> \crefname{subsubsection}{Abschnitt}{Abschnitte}%Of course, feel free to remove the superfluous comments.