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version 1.54, 2010/09/27 10:47:48

version 1.61, 2010/10/19 21:40:27

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* parser bugs

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- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between

a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g.

.if n \{

.br \}

reported by ulrich spoerlein Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:39:50 +0200

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* missing features

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- deal with nested displays, e.g. D1 inside Bd

schwarze has an old patch somewhere and would need to brush it up

- explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed

at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh

reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200

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\\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,

and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.

- look at bsd.lv tbl(1)

- implement basic non-parametric .de to support e.g. sox(1)

from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200

.de SP

also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD

.if t .sp .5

on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200

.if n .sp

joerg@ has patches for this somewhere...

.de EX

.SP

.nf

.ft CW

.de EE

.ft R

.SP

.fi

reported by naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200

- port OpenBSD tbl integration bsd.lv, probably cleaning it up

- 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

roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope.

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- allow `Qq', `Dq', `Sq', `Aq', `Bq' to have 0 arguments

noted by Alex Kozlov 08/06/10 23:05

- Have `Sh', `It', `Ss' and others complain if `Pp' is invoked prior to

close (in the post validation) or prior to open (pre). This noted by

jmc@ a thousand years ago.

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* formatting issues: ugly output

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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"

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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).

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- 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).

- 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.

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* performance issues

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