prettyref is copyright 1995, 1998 Kevin Ruland. README and licence notices were added by Clea F. Rees on behalf of Kevin Ruland on 2008/11/05. prettyref consists of the files prettyref.dtx, prettyref.ins, prettyref.pdf, README and the derived file prettyref.sty. It is released to the public domain. CTAN description: Prettyref provides a command \newrefformat, which specifies the way in which a reference is typeset, according to a label \identification. The identification is set in the \label command, by using prefixed label names; so instead of \label{mysection}, one uses \label{sec:mysection}, and prettyref interprets the \sec: part. The package is compatible with hyperref and with other packages.