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version 1.259, 2018/08/10 04:41:25

version 1.285, 2019/03/01 10:57:17

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--- missing roff features ----------------------------------------------

- .ft CB selects constant-width bold font

see groff_out(7) for examples

- \*(.T prints the device being used,

see groff_char(7) for an example

- \[charNN], \[charNNN] prints a single-byte codepoint

see groff_char(7) for examples

- .ad (adjust margins)

.ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left)

.ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right)

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

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- .while and .shift

found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200

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- \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

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- \\ 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

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- check for missing roff escape sequences, implement those that are

trivial even if not usually appearing in manual pages, gracefully

ignore the non-trivial ones, document what they are supposed to do

and what mandoc does instead

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

- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing

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from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100

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- .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.

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- .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).

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

- .SY and .YS,

used by many groff manual pages

- preserve punctuation following .ME,

see ditroff(7) for an example

- .TQ tagged paragraph continuation,

see groff_diff(7) for examples

- groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL

These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page.

The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too.

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

- 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

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- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^

pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200

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- support .ds requests inside tbl(7) code,

see tbl(1) for an example

- 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;

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

they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.

they use some unsupported tbl(7) features, mostly macros in tbl(7).

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- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use

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

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

in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output

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

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- implement horizontal and vertical alignment in HTML output

pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200

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- implement cell spanning in HTML output

pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200

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- implement table borders in HTML output

pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200

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

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

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* formatting issues: ugly output

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- .UR can nest inside .TP,

see roff(7) for examples

- 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

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

- wrap Sh and Ss content into <div>

Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 21 Apr 2018 18:10:48 +0200

(Evaluate whether this is really useful and has no adverse

side effects before implementing; if it is possible,

it does seem cleaner.)

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- format ".IP *" etc. as <ul> rather than <dl>

https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/67

reminded by Pali Rohar 25 Nov 2018 14:34:26 +0100

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

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* warning issues

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- When a man(1) command returns no result and there was an -S

argument, check the -S argument against the list of valid

architectures and say "Unknown architecture AAA" rather than

"No entry for NNN in the manual" if there is no match.

Requires moving the lists of valid architectures out of

mdoc_validate.c such that they can be used by main.c.

Discussed with jmc@ 10 Aug 2018 19:20:12 +0100.

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- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads

gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200

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all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.

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- 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

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- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories:

/usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part

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* documentation issues

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- dashes, hyphens, and minus signs in manual pages

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

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

is this useful?

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output through libz.

- Privilege separation (see OpenSSH).

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

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

CGI: -static isn't supported.

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* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

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