=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.31 retrieving revision 1.52 diff -u -p -r1.31 -r1.52 --- mandoc/TODO 2010/07/19 09:21:58 1.31 +++ mandoc/TODO 2010/09/25 16:52:15 1.52 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ************************************************************************ -* Official mandoc TODO. May not be quite up to date. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.31 2010/07/19 09:21:58 kristaps Exp $ +* Official mandoc TODO. +* $Id: TODO,v 1.52 2010/09/25 16:52:15 kristaps Exp $ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ @@ -40,6 +40,7 @@ from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200 + joerg@ has patches for this somewhere... - 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 @@ -55,6 +56,13 @@ - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal flags defined for struct mdoc_macro +- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal + text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -." + +- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf' + 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 @@ -62,7 +70,10 @@ - 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) - + +- allow `Qq', `Dq', `Sq', `Aq', `Bq' to have 0 arguments + noted by Alex Kozlov 08/06/10 23:05 + ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: ugly output ************************************************************************ @@ -70,19 +81,74 @@ - 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, + see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). + - 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 -- .Pp before and after .Sh (and .Ss) produces a spurious blank line; - reported by jmc@ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:28 +0100 +- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence + reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: gratuitious differences ************************************************************************ -- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some) +- .%T should be quoted, not underlined, when .%J is also present, + to better distinguish the contents of .%T and .%J, + see for example OpenBSD cat(1) +- .It ${name Ns [ selector ] Ns } + should be "${name[selector]}" not "${name [selector]}" + This is parsed as + text("${name") text("[") Ns() text(selector)... + Opening punctuation should not fall out of .Ns. + see for example OpenBSD csh(1) + +- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet + is just "o\bo". + see for example OpenBSD ksh(1) + +- .No text No ) is "text )", not "text)" + see the terrible example + case word in [[(] pattern [| pattern] ... ) list ;; ] ... esac + in OpenBSD ksh(1) + +- .Sm should *not* produce as a blank line in .Bd -literal + see for example "Brace expansion" in 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). + +- .Bd -literal and .Bd -unfilled are *not* identical. + In -literal, tabs are 8 spaces. + In -unfilled, tabs are 5 spaces, just like in -filled and -ragged. + See the CCDF_* display in OpenBSD ccdconfig(8). + +- In .Bd -unfilled, .Pp should produce one blank line, not two; + see the ccd.conf display in OpenBSD ccdconfig(8). + +- .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). + +- Bogus .Pp before .Bl should not cause a double blank line, + see "The route utility provides the following simple commands:" + in OpenBSD route(8). + ************************************************************************ * performance issues ************************************************************************ @@ -93,6 +159,10 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) +- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets + ************************************************************************ * structural issues ************************************************************************ + +- remove superfluous NOSPACE invocations (e.g., with term_word(p, "("))