Thanks! I was just under the impression that #+name: was the preferred
way of labeling things and I was surprised it did not work as I
expected on some backends. I was surprised to see that
#+name: eq:x
gives a different result from
\label{eq:x}
as I understood the two things to be equivalent.
Stefano Ghirlanda writes:
> There may be an issue with using #+name: labels when exporting to
> non-latex backends. For example:
> ...
> #+name: eq:x
> \begin{equation}
>x = 1
> \end{equation}
>
> cref:eq:x
> ---
>
> exports with a mix of org labels and user labels:
>
> ---
> \begin{equation}
