=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.22 retrieving revision 1.33 diff -u -p -r1.22 -r1.33 --- mandoc/TODO 2010/07/03 00:48:09 1.22 +++ mandoc/TODO 2010/07/25 18:22:18 1.33 @@ -1,4 +1,9 @@ ************************************************************************ +* Official mandoc TODO. May not be quite up to date. +* $Id: TODO,v 1.33 2010/07/25 18:22:18 schwarze Exp $ +************************************************************************ + +************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ @@ -9,16 +14,6 @@ - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message -- we need real .ds; for example, terminfo.3 has - .ds n 5 - and then later - \fBterminfo\fR(\*n) - reported orally by halex@ during c2k10 - -- \*(Pu is not implemented, but used in mdoc.samples - implementing .ds would solve this as well - reminded by jmc@, last on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:29:18 +0100 - - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing ultimate goal: restore .Xr and .Dv to @@ -26,6 +21,14 @@ lib/libc/gen/signal.3 lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 +- edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g. + .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1) + from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 + +- auto-Bk in the SYNOPSIS + patch from kristaps@ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:51:24 +0200 + to be revisited after OpenBSD 4.8 tree unlock + - implement \\ in plain text, identical to \e as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character @@ -33,15 +36,6 @@ \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument, and when using the macro, it must expand yet again. -- implement \s (physical font size) - \sN - set to N - \s+N - increment by N, 1 <= N <= 8 - \s-N - decrement by N, 1 <= N <= 8 - \s0 - restore previous size - \s(nn \s+-(nn \s'+-nn' \s+-'nn' \s[+-nn] \s+-[nn] - disambiguate - registers: .s .ps .sr .psr - used by e.g. cu(1), tip(1) - - look at bsd.lv tbl(1) from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD @@ -65,9 +59,6 @@ - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke -- ignore horrendous m[] font colouring - reported by J.C. Roberts - - prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children (e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) (mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) @@ -76,23 +67,19 @@ * formatting issues: ugly output ************************************************************************ -- outside list context, text following .Sm off - seems to follow without a blank (TERM_NOBLANK reset late?) e.g. - .Sm off - .Xo - .Op Ar bind_address No / - .Ar port - .Xc - .Sm on - or by enclosing - reported by jmc Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:48:14 +0100 +- boot_config.8 + .Bd -literal + .No UKC> Ic find ne + 24 ne0 at isa0 + should be + UKC> find ne + 24 ne0 at isa0 + but is + UKC>find ne24 ne0 at isa0 + from jmc@ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 22:40:02 +0100 -- indentation got lost in SYNOPSIS, e.g. - SYNOPSIS - date [-ajnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format] - - [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] - + [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] - reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200 +- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@ + 1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta @@ -110,11 +97,16 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are -- improve caching mechanism to handle other per-element arguments so - that they need not be recalculated between front- and back-ends (also - reduces code size and complexity): - `Bl -column' pointer - - improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance) - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) + +************************************************************************ +* structural issues +************************************************************************ + +- rendering frontend code can calculate widths only for plain strings, + not for strings containing escape sequences. For example, this + hinders calculation of the indent required for .Nm \&[ in text(1). + comments from kristaps@ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:26:08 +0200 +