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* $Id$

************************************************************************

Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:

* crashes

************************************************************************

- The abort() in bufcat(), html.c, can be triggered via buffmt_includes()

- loc = locality of the issue

by running -Thtml -Oincludes on a file containing a long .In argument.

* single file issue, affects file only, or very few

Fixing this will probably require reworking the whole bufcat() concept.

** single module issue, affects several files of one module

*** cross-module issue, significantly impacts multiple modules

and may require substantial changes to internal interfaces

- exist = difficulty of the existing code in this area

* affected code is straightforward and easy to read and change

** affected code is somewhat complex, but once you understand

the design, not particularly difficult to understand

*** affected code uses a special, exceptionally tricky design

- algo = difficulty of the new algorithm to be written

* the required logic and code is straightforward

** the required logic is somewhat complex and needs a careful design

*** the required logic is exceptionally tricky,

maybe an approach to solve that is not even known yet

- size = the amount of code to be written or changed

* a small number of lines (at most 100, usually much less)

** a considerable amount of code (several dozen to a few hundred)

*** a large amount of code (many hundreds, maybe thousands)

- imp = importance of the issue

* mostly for completeness

** would be nice to have

*** issue causes considerable inconvenience

Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations

are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

************************************************************************

* missing features

************************************************************************

Line 25

Line 46

.na -- temporarily disable adjustment without changing the mode

.ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode

Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf).

loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help)

- .fc (field control)

found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1)

loc ** exist *** algo * size * imp *

- .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+)

found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700

loc * exist * algo * size * imp **

- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1)

when implementing this, also let .TH set it

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

loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *

- .ta (tab settings) occurs in ircbug(1) and probably gnats(1)

- .while and .shift

reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500

also Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100

- .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

loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp **

- \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

loc * exist * algo * size * imp **

- \w'' width measurements

- \w'' improve width measurements

would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below

needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100

loc ** exist *** algo *** size * imp ***

- \\ in high-level macro arguments

Currently, \\ is expanded in two situations:

1) macro and string definition (roff.c setstrn())

2) macro argument parsing (mandoc.c mandoc_getarg())

For user defined macros, the second happens in time because of ROFF_REPARSE.

But for standard high-level macros, it only happens after entering the

high level parsers, which is too late because the code doesn't get

back to roff.c roff_res() from that point. Because this requires

distinguishing requests, user-defined macros and standard macros

on the roff_res() level, it is hard to solve without the parser reorg.

Found by naddy@ in devel/cutils cobfusc(1) Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0100

loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *

- using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty

wl@ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000

loc * exist * algo * size * imp *

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

- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks

see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message

- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing

ultimate goal:

restore .Xr and .Dv to

lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3

lib/libc/gen/signal.3

lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2

loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp **

- 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

loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp **

- \\ is now implemented correctly

* when defining strings and macros using .ds and .de

* when parsing roff(7) and man(7) macro arguments

It does not yet work in mdoc(7) macro arguments

because libmdoc does not yet use mandoc_getarg().

Also check what happens in plain text, it must be identical to \e.

- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not

easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which

we don't have either.

Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered

to be centered as well.

loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help)

- .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both

the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms

of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1).

loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help)

- implement blank `Bl -column', such as

.Bl -column

.It foo Ta bar

.El

loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp *

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

flags defined for struct mdoc_macro

loc * exist * algo * size * imp **

- 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

Line 114

Line 137

Default search path.

reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net>

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

loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **

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

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

Line 122

Line 146

is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab."

but should give "ab ."

- set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned

- have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke

- check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1;

does it need its own constant?

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children

(e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1)

Line 138

Line 159

that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish...

deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour

is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant

loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- 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

Line 146

Line 168

should be, needs investigation.

uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200

uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200

loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp **

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

--- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------

- -T[x]html doesn't stipulate non-collapsing spaces in literal mode

- the "s" layout column specifier is used for placement of data

into columns, but ignored during column width calculations

synaptics(4) found by tedu@ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400

loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp **

--- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------

- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code;

probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7)

use roff_node such that macro sets can mix;

informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100

loc *** exist ** algo *** size ** imp ***

- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port,

they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.

loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp ***

- investigate tbl(1) errors in sox(1)

- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use

see also naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:31:48 +0100

- allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout

- use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders

delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line

in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output

reported by Yuri Pankov, Wed 18 May 2011 11:34:59 CEST

suggested by bentley@ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600

loc * exist ** algo * size * imp **

--- missing eqn features -----------------------------------------------

- In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line.

Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015.

Suggested by Avi Weinstock.

loc * exist * algo * size * imp **

- The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter.

loc * exist * algo * size * imp *

- The spacing characters `~', `^', and tab are currently ignored,

see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 2 section 4.

loc * exist * algo ** size * imp **

- Mark and lineup are parsed and ignored,

see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15.

loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp **

- GNU eqn converts some operators to special characters, for example,

input HYPHEN-MINUS becomes output \(mi, unless it is part of a

quoted word. mandoc(1) only does this when the operator is

surrounded by blanks, not when it is part of an unquoted word.

Also, check whether there are more such cases (e.g., +?).

reported by bentley@ 20 Jun 2017 02:04:29 -0600

- Primes, opprime, and '

bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:14:20 -0600

--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------

- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode

Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46

loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *

- When makewhatis(8) encounters a FATAL parse error,

- change the default PAGER to more -Es and use the pager

it silently treats the file as formatted, which makes no sense

even for apropos title line output; req by bapt@

at all for paths like man1/foo.1 - and which also contradicts

loc * exist * algo * size * imp ***

what the manual says at the end of the description.

The end result will be ENOENT for file names returned

by mansearch() in manpage.file.

- makewhatis(8) for preformatted pages:

parse the section number from the header line

and compare to the section number from the directory name

- Does makewhatis(8) detect missing NAME sections, missing names,

and missing descriptions in all the file formats?

- 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

or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR

see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples

(3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING

loc *** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** (parser reorg helps)

- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)

loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp *

--- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------

Line 202

Line 255

- look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download

Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches

Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200

ported version: https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3

Carsten Kunze Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:21:43 +0200

- 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

Line 225

Line 280

http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html

"Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700

- check compatibility with COHERENT troff:

http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php

- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c

- check compatibility with

http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/contrib/mandoc/

https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc

Amitai Schlair Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400

- check features of the Slackware man.conf(5) format

Carsten Kunze Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:24 +0100

************************************************************************

* formatting issues: ugly output

************************************************************************

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

- revisit empty in-line macros

look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ."

Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100

loc *** exist *** algo *** size * imp **

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

start-with-whitespace printing of a newline

- In .Bl -column, .It a<tab>"b<tab>c"

shows the quotes in groff, but not in mandoc

loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **

- In .Bl -column,

.It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length

ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too,

see OpenBSD iked.conf(5).

reported again Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200

loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp ***

- empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks

try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta

reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400

loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp **

- .%T can have trailing punctuation. Currently, it puts the trailing

punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope.

Line 253

Line 330

slurp all arguments into one single text element - and one feature

of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope.

Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix".

loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp **

- 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

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages

.Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ...

from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200

- implicit whitespace around inline equations

example code: where '$times$' denotes matrix multiplication

must not have an HTML line break, nor a blank, before <math>

partial solution: html.c {"math", HTML_NLINSIDE | HTML_INDENT},

bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:00:59 -0600

- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence

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

loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ***

- a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace

and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)

loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp **

- 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

--- PDF issues ---------------------------------------------------------

--- PostScript and PDF issues ------------------------------------------

- PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal

Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf".

Search the text "Routing tables".

Also check what PostScript mode does when fixing this.

reported by juanfra@ Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:44:58 +0200

instructions from juanfra@ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200

add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier

and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)).

re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------

- <dl><dt><dd> formatting is ugly

- .Bf at the beginning of a paragraph inserts a bogus 1ex horizontal

hints are easy to find on the web, e.g.

space, see for example random(3). Introduced in

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713048/

http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_html.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92

see also matthew@ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:12 -0700

reported by deraadt@ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:14:13 -0600 (MDT)

loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp *

- consider whether <var> can be used for Ar Dv Er Ev Fa Va.

- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014:

from bentley@ Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:17:55 -0600

try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking

and render them with <a class="Xr" href=...>

https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15

loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp **

- The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force

the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>.

Not yet sure how to fix that...

Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org:

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1

loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ***

- generate <img> tags in HTML

idea from florian@ Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:26:28 +0000

may be possible to implement with .Lk img://something.png alt_text

- check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml

************************************************************************

* formatting issues: gratuitous differences

************************************************************************

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

- .Fn reopens a new scope after punctuation in mandoc,

or not (run a manual without `Nm blah' to see this). I'm not sure

but closes its scope for good in groff.

that this exists in the wild, but it's still an error.

Do we want to change mandoc or groff?

Steffen Nurpmeso Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:34:59 +0100

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet

is just "o\bo".

see for example OpenBSD ksh(1)

- In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after

the number, mandoc breaks the line.

mail to kristaps@ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- .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

reported again by sthen@ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC)

loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **

- 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).

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- If the first line after .It is .D1, do not assert a blank line

in between, see for example tmux(1).

reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- 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.

loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- .Nx 1.0a

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

see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).

- 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).

- When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered

before measuring the width, for example

.Bl -tag -width ".Dv message"

Line 339

Line 444

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

reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@

loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp ***

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.

loc * exist * algo * size * imp ***

- The \& zero-width character counts as output.

That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp,

we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc.

loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **

- Header lines of excessive length:

- Sequences of multiple man(7) paragraphs (.PP, .IP) interspersed

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

with .ps and .nf/.fi produce execessive blank lines, see libJudy

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

and graphics/dcmtk. The parser reorg may help with this.

found while talking to Chris Bennett

- 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).

loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **

************************************************************************

* warning issues

************************************************************************

- check that MANDOCERR_BADTAB is thrown in the right cases,

- style message about macros inside .Bd -literal and .Dl, in particular

i.e. when finding a literal tab character in fill mode,

font changing macros like .Cm, .Ar, .Fa (from the mdoclint TODO)

and possibly change the wording of the warning message

to refer to fill mode, not literal mode

See the mail from Werner LEMBERG on the groff list,

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:54:42 +0100 (CET)

- warn about "new sentence, new line"

- style message about mismatches between the section number in the

file name (if it is known) and the section number in .Dt

(from the mdoclint TODO)

- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,

- style message about NULL without .Dv (from the mdoclint TODO)

but just the overall format

- integrate mdoclint into mandoc ("end-of-line whitespace" thread)

- style message about error constants without .Er (from the mdoclint TODO)

from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0100

from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0200

from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:37 +0059

from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:02:03 +0200

- -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout

- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros

to tech@mdocml, naddy@ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200

Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034

wait! kristaps@ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0200

loc * exist * algo * size * imp **

- for system errors, use errno/strerror/warn/err

- style message about violations of the convention

.An name Aq Mt localpart@domain in AUTHORS (from the mdoclint TODO)

- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros

Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100

Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff.

.Fn Po prints "Po()", .Ar Sh prints "file ..." and no "Sh".

Relatively hard because the relevant code is scattered

all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.

loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp **

- style message about suspicious uses of - vs. \- vs. \(mi

e.g. -1 is likely wrong (from the mdoclint TODO)

- warn about punctuation - e.g. ',' and ';' - at the beginning

of a text line, if it is likely intended to follow the preceding

output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a

macro line (from the mdoclint TODO)

- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,

but just the overall format

loc ** exist ** algo *** size ** imp **

************************************************************************

* documentation issues

************************************************************************

- mention hyphenation rules:

- dashes, hyphens, and minus signs in manual pages

breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args)

jmc@ Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:19:27 +0000

proper hyphenation is unimplemented

- talk about spacing around delimiters

to jmc@, kristaps@ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200

- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain

is this useful?

- mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)?

- Is all the content from http://www.std.com/obi/BSD/doc/usd/28.tbl/tbl

covered in tbl(7)?

************************************************************************

* performance issues

************************************************************************

- Why are we using MAP_SHARED, not MAP_PRIVATE for mmap(2)?

How does SQLITE_CONFIG_PAGECACHE actually work? Document it!

from kristaps@ Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:51:36 +0200

Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are

- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)

- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)

- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets

- instead of re-initialising the roff predefined-strings set before each

parse, create a read-only version the first time and copy it

************************************************************************

* structural issues

************************************************************************

- POSIX says in the documentation of sysconf(3) that PATH_MAX

is allowed to be so large that it is a bad idea to use it

for sizing static buffers. So use dynamic buffers throughout.

See the file test-PATH_MAX.c for details.

Found by Aaron M. Ucko in the GNU Hurd via Bdale Garbee,

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624

- We use the input line number at several places to distinguish

same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work

with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage.

- Is it possible to further simplify ENDBODY_SPACE?

- 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

- Consider creating some views that will make the database more

- make buffers for parsing functions const

readable from the sqlite3 shell. Consider using them to

christos@ via wiz@ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:10:01 +0100

abstract from the database structure, too.

suggested by espie@ Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:52:57 +0200

- struct mparse refactoring

Steffen Nurpmeso Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200

************************************************************************

* CGI issues

************************************************************************

Line 450 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Line 564 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

output through libz.

- Sandbox (see OpenSSH).

- Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since.

- Allow for cgi.h to be overridden by CGI environment variables.

Otherwise, binary distributions will inherit the compile-time

behaviour, which is not optimal.

- Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the

CGI: -static isn't supported.

************************************************************************

* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

************************************************************************

- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time

tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100

- apostrophe (39), circumflex (94), grave (96), tilde (126)

in manuals: \(aq, \(ha, \`, \(ti

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

bentley@ 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 -0600

Do we need to fix existing manuals?

Do we need to fix the definition of the mdoc(7) language?

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