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version 1.302, 2020/04/26 21:41:07

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

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- .als only works for macros in mandoc, not for user-defined strings.

Also, the "val" field in struct roffkv would have to be replaced

with a pointer to a reference-counted wrapper, and an alias

would have to point to the same wrapper as the original.

.als to undefined does nothing; the alias is not created.

.rm'ing the original leaves the alias to point to the old value.

.de .als .de changes both, but

.de .als .rm .de only changes the new value, not the alias.

Found in groffer(1) version 1.19

Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200

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- roff string condition comparisons fail when vars contain quotes:

.ds s '

.if '\*s'' \&...

hard to fix because of the basic architecture (string replacement

happens before roff(7) syntax parsing)

Found in groffer(1) version 1.19

Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200

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

- .Sh and .Ss should be parsed and partially callable, see groff_mdoc(7)

reed at reedmedia dot net Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:13:07 -0600

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- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing

ultimate goal:

restore .Xr and .Dv to

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

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

Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015.

Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015. Suggested by Avi Weinstock.

Suggested by Avi Weinstock.

This may not be the ideal solution after all: eqn(7) matrices

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are lists of columns, so Avi's proposal would show each *column*

on its own *line*, which is likely to cause confusion.

A better solution, but much harder to implement, would be to

actually show the coordinates of column vectors on different

terminal output lines, using the clumnated output facilities

developed for .Bl -tag, .Bl -column, and also used for tbl(7).

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

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

- -T man does not handle eqn(7) and tbl(7)

Stephen Gregoratto 16 Feb 2020 01:28:07 +1100

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- man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally

- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode

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

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

- check compatibility with

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc

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

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

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

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

This will become easier once escape sequences are represented

by syntax tree nodes.

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- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc

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

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

- get rid of the last handful of style= attributes such that

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

Content-Security-Policy: can be enabled without unsafe-inline

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

suggested by bentley@ Nov 10, 2019 at 06:02:49AM -0700

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

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

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

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- space characters can end up in href= attributes, for example coming

from the first .Xr argument (where they make no sense, but still);

does this affect other characters, other source macros...?

Jackson Pauls 29 Aug 2017 16:56:27 +0100

- 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...

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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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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

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* CGI issues

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- Inspect httpd(8) logs on man.openbsd.org and consider

whether logging can be improved, where bad syntax comes from,

and what needs to be done to get rid of COMPAT_OLDURI.

- Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering

output through libz.

- Privilege separation (see OpenSSH).

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* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

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- delete OS release verification from .Dx, .Fx, .Nx, .Ox etc.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629161

also Branden Robinson 18 Dec 2019 00:59:52 +1100

- Can the distinction between .Vt and .Va be made stricter,

recommending .Vt extern char * Ns Va optarg ; ?

What about the block macro properties of .Vt in the SYNOPSIS?

zeurkous 25 Dec 2019 08:48:36 +0100

- .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages:

find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe:

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