mdoc

If the manpage is written with the 4.4BSD -mdoc semantic markup macros then it can contain hyperlinks like.

All major troff implementations support the -mdoc macros, though, and -mdoc is much better suited.

With the design of the core mdoc selector disclosure protocol, the answer is yes.

And final thoughts: if unfamiliar the bsd's use the mdoc set of troff macros to build semantic man pages.

Modern manpages should be written in mdoc(7), another troff macro set that’s both more semantic and more expressive than man(7).

But to be clear, mdoc already accounts for this through its selective disclosure protocol, without the need for a zero knowledge proof technology.

I also like to convert manpages from -man to -mdoc, or write new pages for programs that don’t have one.

Sorry guys I had to change the name because mdoc is already used by other programs.

Yeah, because there aren't any documentation systems called mdoc already, at all.

Atleast it doesn't clash with the established documentation system mdoc.

An example of documentation generated from mdoc would be nice.

OpenBSD actually went one step further and now uses a specific mandoc program to render them rather than the troff + mdoc macros that was used before.

In the early 1990s, BSD came up with the “mdoc” macros, which are a significant improvement over the original “man” macros.

When you share an mdoc you are really just sharing a signed pile of hashes ("mobile security object") and then you can choose which salted pre-images to share along with the pile of hashes.

Unlike the others, it’s not a complete troff implementation; it focuses on manpages (“mdoc”, “man”, “eqn”, and “tbl” macro sets).

Mdoc is a very pleasant language, and since it’s used in roff you can combine it with other macro sets like tbl (for tables) and eqn (for mathematics).