I'm writing a technical report which has a bunch of definitions of terms. Some of these definitions are short, some are longer (a couple of paragraphs), but the point is - there are a lot of them, in sequence.
Later on in my document, I want to refer to a few of these definitions, rather than just use them, i.e. write "(as defined [here])" with the [here] being a link to where the term was actually defined / where it first appeared within its definition.
Now, clearly, I can use a definition environment, with labels, and \autoref or \ref for the linkified reference. But - I don't want to use that environment, just for the few definitions which get referenced explicitly - as that would fill up my document with a long sequence of "Definition 1", "Definition 2", .... "Definition 15". Ugly.
What mechanism can I / should I use instead? Perhaps some non-environment relating anchor-plus-link solution, like in HTML?
Definition Xs? assuming an environment helped, can't you just not have it emitDefinition Xif you don't want that?\labelon the definition.\hypertargetand\hyperlinkof the hyperref package? If not, you may want to consult postings such as Link to arbitrary part of text? and How to cross-reference an unnumbered theorem to determine if this pair of commands can meet your formatting objective.