=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.132 retrieving revision 1.161 diff -u -p -r1.132 -r1.161 --- mandoc/TODO 2012/05/28 23:09:22 1.132 +++ mandoc/TODO 2013/12/15 23:56:42 1.161 @@ -1,9 +1,15 @@ ************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.132 2012/05/28 23:09:22 schwarze Exp $ +* $Id: TODO,v 1.161 2013/12/15 23:56:42 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ +* crashes +************************************************************************ + +None known. + +************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ @@ -14,10 +20,6 @@ reported by Andreas Voegele Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:34:47 +0100 on ports@ -- .if n \{ - .br\} - should cause an extra space to be raised. - - .ad (adjust margins) .ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left) .ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right) @@ -27,23 +29,47 @@ .ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf). -- .it (line traps) occur in mysql(1), yasm_arch(7) - generated by DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.71.1 - reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:48:18 -0500 +- .as (append to string) + found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200 + +- .ce (center N lines) + found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) + found by Juan Francisco Cantero Hurtado + in lang/racket(1) Thu, 20 Jun 2013 03:19:11 +0200 +- .fc (field control) + found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) + +- .ll (line length) + found by naddy@ in textproc/enchant(1) Sat, 12 Oct 2013 03:27:10 +0200 + +- .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+) + found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700 + - .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 -- xloadimage(1) wants .ti (temporary indent), rep by naddy@ - reported again by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600 - also uses .ce (center N lines) and .fc (field control) - - .ta (tab settings) occurs in ircbug(1) and probably gnats(1) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500 +- .ti (temporary indent) + found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) + found by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600 + +- .while and .shift + found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200 + - \c (interrupted text) should prevent the line break even inside .Bd literal; that occurs in chat(8) + also found in cclive(1) - DocBook output +- \h horizontal move + found in cclive(1) DocBook output + Anthony J. Bentley on discuss@ Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:29:34 -0600 + +- \n+ and \n- numerical register increment and decrement + found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700 + - using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty wl@ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000 @@ -119,6 +145,8 @@ - groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 + also occur in freeciv-client(6) freeciv-server(6) freeciv-modpack(6) + reported by bentley@ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:05:57 -0600 - -T[x]html doesn't stipulate non-collapsing spaces in literal mode @@ -134,6 +162,18 @@ --- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- +- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode + Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46 + +- The whatis(1) utility looks for whole words in Nm. + If the file name of a page does not agree with the contents of any + of its Nm macros (e.g. pool(9)), add the file name as an Nm entry + to the mandoc.db as well, such that whatis(1) finds it. + If there is a page with a file name that does not appear as a substring + neither in Nm nor in Nd, the same fix would allow finding that page + with apropos(1) using the file name as a key, as well. + Issue reported by tedu@ Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:15:23 -0400 + - clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: (1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content (2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content @@ -141,14 +181,6 @@ see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING -- The \t escape sequence is the same as a literal tab, see for example - the ASCII table in hexdump(1) where - .Bl -column \&000_nu \&001_so \&002_st \&003_et \&004_eo - .It \&000\ nul\t001\ soh\t002\ stx\t003\ etx\t004\ eot\t005\ enq - produces - 000 nul 001 soh 002 stx 003 etx 004 eot 005 enq - and the example in oldrdist(1) - - look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1) These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. @@ -156,6 +188,9 @@ noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 +- look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg + First impression is not that bad. + - check compatibility with Plan9: http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html @@ -168,14 +203,6 @@ - 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) - reminded by millert@ Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:29:52 -0500 - -- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@ - 1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too - - In .Bl -column, .It Em AuthenticationKey Length ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, @@ -195,9 +222,18 @@ of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope. Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix". +- Trailing punctuation after .%T triggers EOS spacing, at least + outside .Rs (eek!). Simply setting ARGSFL_DELIM for .%T is not + the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop. + reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 + - in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 +- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc + reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc... + reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600 + ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: gratuitous differences ************************************************************************ @@ -210,18 +246,6 @@ is just "o\bo". see for example OpenBSD ksh(1) -- The characters "|" and "\*(Ba" should never be bold, - not even in the middle of a word, e.g. ".Cm b\*(Bac" in - "mknod [-m mode] name b|c major minor" - in OpenBSD ksh(1) - -- A bogus .Pp between two .It must not produce a double blank line, - see between -R and -r in OpenBSD rm(1), before "update" in mount(8), - or in DIAGNOSTICS in init(8), or before "is always true" in ksh(1). - The same happens with .Pp just before .El, see bgpd.conf(5). - 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 @@ -235,6 +259,10 @@ in between, see for example tmux(1). reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000 +- Trailing punctuation after .It should trigger EOS spacing. + reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 + Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure. + - .Nx 1.0a should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a", see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8). @@ -250,6 +278,9 @@ as -width 7n, not -width 11n. The same applies to .Bl -column column widths; reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar + reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200 + An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts + with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring. - The \& zero-width character counts as output. That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp, @@ -262,68 +293,17 @@ Also, we don't want to break the line within the argument of: .Fa "chtype tl" -- .Ns should work when called at the end of an input line, see - the following code in vi(1): - .It Xo - .Op Ar line - .Cm a Ns Op Cm ppend Ns - .Op Cm !\& - .Xc - The input text is appended after the specified line. - - 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 found while talking to Chris Bennett -- In man(7), the sequence - .HP - one line of regular text - .SH - should not produce two blank lines before the .SH, - see for example named-checkconf(8). - -- 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 - .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 - - trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape, see for example makes \fBdig \fR operate in batch mode in dig(1). - -************************************************************************ -* error reporting issues -************************************************************************ - -- .TP directly followed by .RS gives an assertion. ************************************************************************ * performance issues