Introduce a new mdoc(7) macro .Tg ("tag") to explicitly mark a place

as defining a term.  Please only use it when automatic tagging does
not work.  Manual page authors will not be required to add the new
macro; using it remains optional.  HTML output is still rudimentary
in this version and will be polished later.

Thanks to kn@ for reminding me that i have been considering since
BSDCan 2014 whether something like this might be useful.  Given
that possibilities of making automatic tagging better are running
out and there are still several situations where automatic tagging
cannot do the job, i think the time is now ripe.

Feedback and no objection from millert@; OK espie@ inoguchi@ kn@.

1 files changed, 48 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/mdoc.7 b/mdoc.7
index deca4ba8..d0dad480 100644
--- a/mdoc.7
+++ b/mdoc.7
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.279 2019/07/15 19:20:30 schwarze Exp $
+.\"	$Id: mdoc.7,v 1.280 2020/01/19 18:02:00 schwarze Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 2009, 2010, 2011 Kristaps Dzonsons <kristaps@bsd.lv>
-.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2018 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
+.\" Copyright (c) 2010, 2011, 2013-2020 Ingo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>
 .\"
 .\" Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software for any
 .\" purpose with or without fee is hereby granted, provided that the above
@@ -15,7 +15,7 @@
 .\" ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF
 .\" OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
 .\"
-.Dd $Mdocdate: July 15 2019 $
+.Dd $Mdocdate: January 19 2020 $
 .Dt MDOC 7
 .Os
 .Sh NAME
@@ -449,6 +449,7 @@ in the alphabetical
 .It Ic \&Ss Ta subsection header (one line)
 .It Ic \&Sx Ta internal cross reference to a section or subsection
 .It Ic \&Xr Ta cross reference to another manual page: Ar name section
+.It Ic \&Tg Ta tag the definition of a Ar term Pq <= 1 arguments
 .It Ic \&Pp Ta start a text paragraph (no arguments)
 .El
 .Ss Displays and lists
@@ -2548,6 +2549,49 @@ Table cell separator in
 .Ic \&Bl Fl column
 lists; can only be used below
 .Ic \&It .
+.It Ic \&Tg Op Ar term
+Announce that the next input line starts a definition of the
+.Ar term .
+This macro must appear alone on its own input line.
+The argument defaults to the first argument of the first macro
+on the next line.
+The argument may not contain whitespace characters, not even when it is quoted.
+This macro is a
+.Xr mandoc 1
+extension and is typically ignored by other formatters.
+.Pp
+When viewing terminal output with
+.Xr less 1 ,
+the interactive
+.Ic :t
+command can be used to go to the definition of the
+.Ar term
+as described for the
+.Ev MANPAGER
+variable in
+.Xr man 1 ;
+when producing HTML output, a fragment identifier
+.Pq Ic id No attribute
+is generated, to be used for deep linking to this place of the document.
+.Pp
+In most cases, adding a
+.Ic \&Tg
+macro would be redundant because
+.Xr mandoc 1
+is able to automatically tag most definitions.
+This macro is intended for cases where automatic tagging of a
+.Ar term
+is unsatisfactory, for example if a definition is not tagged
+automatically (false negative) or if places are tagged that do
+not define the
+.Ar term
+(false positives).
+When there is at least one
+.Ic \&Tg
+macro for a
+.Ar term ,
+no other places are automatically marked as definitions of that
+.Ar term .
 .It Ic \&Tn Ar word ...
 Supported only for compatibility, do not use this in new manuals.
 Even though the macro name
@@ -2912,6 +2956,7 @@ then the macro accepts an arbitrary number of arguments.
 .It Ic \&St  Ta    \&No     Ta    Yes      Ta    1
 .It Ic \&Sx  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
 .It Ic \&Sy  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
+.It Ic \&Tg  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    <2
 .It Ic \&Tn  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    >0
 .It Ic \&Ud  Ta    \&No     Ta    \&No     Ta    0
 .It Ic \&Ux  Ta    Yes      Ta    Yes      Ta    n