[EXPERIMENT] term-macro

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+= TERM macro!
+
+Inspired by the text adventure game language Inform7, and in particular its features for formatting the names of things.
+http://inform7.com/book/WI_5_3.html
+
+Inform7 is based around objects, and finds clever ways within its (English-like) syntax to describe and name them,
+and also express relationships between them.
+
+It seems like something a documentation system might want to do, only instead of "The brass lantern is in the chest"
+we might want to declare that "An Application Service is a kind of Service. It has zero or more Application Endpoints."
+
+Anyway, this macro just looks at the formatting of names for now...
+
+== Example
+
+With the following config:
+
+[source,yml]
+----
+asciidoc:
+    attributes:
+        "term-App Service": Application Service
+        "term-N1QL": "SQL++"
+        "term-N1QL-indefinite": an
+----
+
+We get the following features:
+
+== Passthrough
+
+[source,asciidoc]
+----
+term:[The Frobnitzer] is awesome!
+----
+> term:[The Frobnitzer] is awesome!
+// "The Frobnitzer is awesome!"
+
+Yes, that's right! If we haven't defined any terms, then this is a glorified pass-through macro!
+Still, you could imagine we could potentially format terms differently or something, and it will make it easier to grep for.
+
+== Swap names
+
+[source,asciidoc]
+----
+Deploy term:[an App Service]
+----
+> Deploy term:[an App Service]
+// "Deploy an Application Service"
+
+This is a little more interesting: because we've renamed App Service in the meantime, we get to magically update the name.
+
+== Indefinite articles
+
+[source,asciidoc]
+----
+Let's run term:[a N1QL] query!
+----
+> Let's run term:[a N1QL] query!
+// "Let's run an SQL++ query!"
+
+This corrects the indefinite article.
+(Assuming we pronounce it Ess Queue Ell of course...)
+There is a default handler that will pick the appropriate article based on vowels,
+but where we need fine control, as in this ambiguous case, we can specify it in config.
+
+== Handle capitalization
+
+[source,asciidoc]
+----
+term:[A N1QL] query a day keeps the DBA away.
+----
+> term:[A N1QL] query a day keeps the DBA away.
+// "An SQL++ query a day keeps the DBA away."
+
+If we wanted to use Asciidoc attributes instead, we could simply define `{term-n1ql}` and `{term-a-n1ql}` and substitute those.
+But then we don't handle capitalization...
+
+Annoyingly Asciidoc doesn't distinguish `{term-A-n1ql}` case-sensitive, so we'd have to do `{term-a-n1ql-caps}` or similar, which is rather ugly.
+Just writing the article on the other hand is intuitive and involves less faffing with include:: of tokens files.
+
+== More ideas
+
+This idea might be generally useful as it would allow us to distinguish terms for various purposes.
+Other uses might include:
+
+ * formatting terms differently
+ * linking the first usage of a term on a page to a <abbr> tag or definition
+ * indexing where terms are used
+
+Future enhancements could include
+
+ * Parsing plurals
+
+Simplifications could include:
+
+ * remove the attribute parsing entirely, and simply substitute whole strings.
+    (e.g. we would provide literal terms for "Foo" and "A foo" and "Foos")
+    This would reduce complexity and potential fragility, and make the behaviour more predictable, if slightly more tedious.

lib/inline-term-macro.js

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+/* 
+ *
+ * @author Hakim Cassimally <[email protected]>
+ */
+
+
+
+const capitalize = (string) => string.charAt(0).toUpperCase() + string.slice(1)
+const compose = (f1, f2) => (arg) => f1(f2(arg))
+
+const _indefinite = (term) => term.indefinite || term.term.match(/^[aeiou]/i) ? 'an' : 'a'
+
+// prefix handlers
+const normal = (prefix) => (term) => prefix ? `${prefix} ${term.term}` : term.term
+const indefinite = (term) => `${_indefinite(term)} ${term.term}`
+
+const prefix_handlers = {
+  a: indefinite,
+  an: indefinite,
+  A: compose(capitalize, indefinite),
+  An: compose(capitalize, indefinite),
+}
+
+function initInlineTermMacro ({ mapping }) {
+  return function () {
+
+    this.parseContentAs('text')
+    this.matchFormat('short')
+
+    this.process((parent, _, attrs) => {
+
+      const text = attrs.text
+
+      const knownTerms = Object.keys(mapping).join('|')
+
+      const match = 
+        text.match(new RegExp(`^(?<term>${knownTerms})$`)) || 
+        text.match(/^(?<prefix>[Aa]n?|[Tt]he) (?<term>.*)$/) ||
+        text.match(/^(?<term>.*)$/)
+
+      const {term, prefix} = match.groups
+
+      const item = mapping[term] || { term: term }
+
+      const handler = prefix_handlers[prefix] || normal(prefix)
+
+      const output = handler(item)
+
+      return this.createInlinePass(parent, output)
+    })
+  }
+}
+
+function register (registry, context) {
+  const { config: { attributes } } = context
+
+  const mapping = Object.entries(attributes).reduce((accum, [name, value]) => {
+    /*
+     * parse out entries like:
+     *     term-App Service
+     *     term-App Service-indefinite
+     *     term-App Service-plural
+     *
+     */
+    console.log(name)
+    const match = name.match(/^term(-(?<term>.*?))(-(?<type>indefinite|plural))?$/)
+    if (match) {
+      const term = match.groups.term
+      const type = match.groups.type || 'term'
+      accum[term] ||= {}
+      accum[term][type] = value
+    }
+    return accum
+  }, {})
+
+  console.log(mapping)
+  const contextWithMapping = Object.assign({ mapping }, context)
+  registry.inlineMacro('term', initInlineTermMacro(contextWithMapping))
+}
+
+module.exports.register = register