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Diff for /mandoc/TODO between version 1.84 and 1.100

version 1.84, 2011/01/25 10:37:49

version 1.100, 2011/04/13 09:57:41

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- .TP before .SH is still FATAL in man(7)

reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:54 -0500

- The mdoc(7) parser should handle `\.' as punctuation:

.Ql .if ${VAR} op something \.

should produce

`.if ${VAR} op something'.

not

`.if ${VAR} op something .'

as seen in make(1).

To escape the dot, one would use `\&.'.

- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between

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

.if n \{

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- \c (interrupted text) occurs in chat(8)

- \f(CW (constant width font) occurs in rsyncd.conf(5).

I think we should treat unknown/unavailable fonts as \fR

such that switching back with \fP works correctly -

and doesn't revert the _previous_ \fP.

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

- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks

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

- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after

.SM

.B something

should either just work or be a warning

reported by naddy@

- groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5)

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

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* formatting issues: ugly output

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

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

start-with-whitespace printing of a newline

- double quotes inside double quotes are escaped by doubling them

implement this in mdoc(7), too

so far, we only have it in roff(7) and man(7)

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

see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).

- The space character joining .Dx .Fx .Nx .Ox (are these all?) to its

argument is non-breaking. See the cdio(1) HISTORY and many others.

- .Bx uses a dash before its argument, not a space,

see for example the chpass(1) and column(1) HISTORY.

Besides, the second argument is capitalized, for example,

.Bx 4.3 tahoe .

produces 4.3BSD-Tahoe.

- 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).

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Line 236

should be indented, see e.g. rpc(3);

reported by jmc@ on discuss@ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:48:33 +0100

- .Ns should only be effective when called by another macro,

not as a stand-alone macro at the beginning of a line;

see for example the awk(1) SYNOPSIS.

- .Ns should work when called at the end of an input line, see

the following code in vi(1):

.It Xo

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should have a blank line between the text and the beginning of the

indented paragraph, see for example sudo(1).

- In man(7), the sequence

.SH HEADER

.PP

regular text

should not produce any blank lines between the header and the text,

see for example rsync(1).

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.PP

.RS

indented text

should produce one blank line between the regular and indented texts,

see for example rsync(1), and

.RE

.PP

.RS

should produce two,not one blank lines.

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.IP

.IP "tag"

indented text

should produce one, not four blank lines between the regular text

and the tag, see for example rsync(1).

Likewise,

regular text

.IP

indented text

should produce one, not two blank lines in between, and

regular text

.IP

.RS

.IP tag

indented text

should produce one, not three blank lines.

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- At least sometimes, .sp is ignored right after .SH; see named.conf(5).

- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape,

Line 315 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Line 338 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

- 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

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