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Diff for /mandoc/TODO between version 1.83 and 1.104

version 1.83, 2011/01/24 01:34:56

version 1.104, 2011/04/30 10:18:24

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- .TP before .SH is still FATAL in man(7)

reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:54 -0500

- The mdoc(7) parser should handle `\.' as punctuation:

.Ql .if ${VAR} op something \.

should produce

`.if ${VAR} op something'.

not

`.if ${VAR} op something .'

as seen in make(1).

To escape the dot, one would use `\&.'.

- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between

a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g.

.if n \{

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* formatter bugs

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- tbl(7): Horizontal and vertical lines are formatted badly:

With the box option, there is too much white space at the end of cells.

Horizontal lines from "=" lines are a bit too long.

yuri dot pankov at gmail dot com Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:45:26 +0400

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* missing features

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- \c (interrupted text) occurs in chat(8)

- \f(CW (constant width font) occurs in rsyncd.conf(5).

I think we should treat unknown/unavailable fonts as \fR

such that switching back with \fP works correctly -

and doesn't revert the _previous_ \fP.

--- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------

- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks

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- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal

flags defined for struct mdoc_macro

- In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded

as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly

ugly code from login.conf(5):

.Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd

.It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH

.br

Default search path.

reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net>

via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059

- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal

text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -."

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--- missing man features -----------------------------------------------

- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after

- .RS/.RE can be nested, see e.g. the x11/fluxbox manuals

.SM

noticed by dcoppa@ Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:58:14PM +0200:

.B something

should either just work or be a warning

reported by naddy@

- groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5)

reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500

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* formatting issues: ugly output

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- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurrious

start-with-whitespace printing of a newline

- double quotes inside double quotes are escaped by doubling them

implement this in mdoc(7), too

so far, we only have it in roff(7) and man(7)

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reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059

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* formatting issues: gratuitious differences

* formatting issues: gratuitous differences

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- .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named

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Also have `It' complain if `Pp' is invoked at certain times (not

-compact?).

- .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one,

not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5).

reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059

- If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after

the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking.

See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1).

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should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a",

see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).

- The space character joining .Dx .Fx .Nx .Ox (are these all?) to its

argument is non-breaking. See the cdio(1) HISTORY and many others.

- .Bx uses a dash before its argument, not a space,

see for example the chpass(1) and column(1) HISTORY.

Besides, the second argument is capitalized, for example,

.Bx 4.3 tahoe .

produces 4.3BSD-Tahoe.

- In .Bl -tag, if a tag exceeds the right margin and must be continued

on the next line, it must be indented by -width, not width+1;

see "rule block|pass" in OpenBSD ifconfig(8).

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should be indented, see e.g. rpc(3);

reported by jmc@ on discuss@ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:48:33 +0100

- .Ns should only be effective when called by another macro,

not as a stand-alone macro at the beginning of a line;

see for example the awk(1) SYNOPSIS.

- .Ns should work when called at the end of an input line, see

the following code in vi(1):

.It Xo

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.Xc

The input text is appended after the specified line.

- When we have both .%T and .%B in .Rs, .%T uses "", not underline, see

for example arp(4); admittedly, arp(4) is abusing both .%T and .%B,

but when dealing with anthologies, sensible use of of both in the

same .Rs can occur.

- Header lines of excessive length:

Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c

and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY

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should have a blank line between the text and the beginning of the

indented paragraph, see for example sudo(1).

- In man(7), the sequence

.SH HEADER

.PP

regular text

should not produce any blank lines between the header and the text,

see for example rsync(1).

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.PP

.RS

indented text

should produce one blank line between the regular and indented texts,

see for example rsync(1), and

.RE

.PP

.RS

should produce two,not one blank lines.

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.IP

.IP "tag"

indented text

should produce one, not four blank lines between the regular text

and the tag, see for example rsync(1).

Likewise,

regular text

.IP

indented text

should produce one, not two blank lines in between, and

regular text

.IP

.RS

.IP tag

indented text

should produce one, not three blank lines.

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- At least sometimes, .sp is ignored right after .SH; see named.conf(5).

- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape,

Line 320 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Line 360 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

- Find better ways to prevent endless loops

in roff(7) macro and string expansion.

- Finish cleanup of date handling.

Decide which formats should be recognized where.

Update both mdoc(7) and man(7) documentation.

Triggered by Tim van der Molen Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:30:45 +0100

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