=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.99 retrieving revision 1.113 diff -u -p -r1.99 -r1.113 --- mandoc/TODO 2011/04/12 23:54:12 1.99 +++ mandoc/TODO 2011/06/18 17:58:48 1.113 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.99 2011/04/12 23:54:12 schwarze Exp $ +* $Id: TODO,v 1.113 2011/06/18 17:58:48 kristaps Exp $ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ @@ -10,16 +10,15 @@ - .TP before .SH is still FATAL in man(7) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:54 -0500 -- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between - a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g. - .if n \{ - .br \} - reported by ulrich spoerlein Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:39:50 +0200 - ************************************************************************ * formatter bugs ************************************************************************ +- 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 + ************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ @@ -51,11 +50,6 @@ - \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 @@ -91,6 +85,16 @@ - 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 + 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 -." @@ -106,6 +110,14 @@ (e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) (mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) +- When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains + the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line + macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line. + No idea how the logic for distinguishing in-line and block instances + should be, needs investigation. + uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200 + uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200 + --- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- - groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5) @@ -117,6 +129,10 @@ reported by naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200 *** sox(1) still doesn't work, tbl(1) errors need investigation +- allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout + delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line + reported by Yuri Pankov, Wed 18 May 2011 11:34:59 CEST + --- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- - clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: @@ -183,7 +199,7 @@ reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 ************************************************************************ -* formatting issues: gratuitious differences +* formatting issues: gratuitous differences ************************************************************************ - .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named @@ -206,6 +222,10 @@ 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). @@ -258,13 +278,6 @@ see for example named-checkconf(8). - In man(7), the sequence - regular text - .RS - .IP - 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 @@ -275,20 +288,6 @@ - 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 @@ -319,13 +318,6 @@ ************************************************************************ * error reporting issues ************************************************************************ - -- In man(7), an empty subsection (.SS) should not be an error, probably - not even a warning. For example, in ExtUtils::CChecker(3p), this is - used in a way similar to empty .It -tag in mdoc(7), that is, explaining - two commands (both presented with .SS markup) in one paragraph of text. - Reported by Gleydson Soares - on ports@ Tue, 12 Apr 2011 15:39:26 -0300 ************************************************************************ * performance issues