Annotation of mandoc/TODO, Revision 1.12
1.1 kristaps 1: ************************************************************************
2: * missing features
3: ************************************************************************
4:
5: - explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed
6: at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh
7: reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200
8:
9: - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
10: ultimate goal:
11: restore .Xr and .Dv to
12: lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3
13: lib/libc/gen/signal.3
14: lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
15:
16: - .Bk / .Ek is broken, e.g.
17: $ man ssh
18: [...]
19: ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D
20: [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11]
21: reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200
22: also reported by jmc@ earlier
23:
24: - implement \\
25: in plain text, identical to \e
26: as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character
27: We do not have macro definitions yet; if we implement them,
28: \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,
29: and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.
30:
31: - look at bsd.lv tbl(1)
32: from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200
33:
34: - look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1)
35: These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level
36: roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope.
37: noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200
38: reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100
39:
40:
41: - FIXED OpenBSD term.h 1.16 term.c 1.30 mdoc_term.c 1.75 schwarze 23.4.10
42: handle tab characters outside literal context, e.g. usb(4)
43: reported by jmc@ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:42:12 +0100
1.2 schwarze 44: NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
1.1 kristaps 45:
46: - FIXED OpenBSD man.h 1.15 libman.h 1.16 man_hash.c 1.9
47: man.c 1.25 man_macro.c 1.15 man_validate.c 1.19 man_action.c 1.15
48: man_term.c 1.28 man_html.c 1.9 schwarze 25.4.
49: implement .if .ie .el
50: noticed by espie@ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:10:35 +0200
1.2 schwarze 51: NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
1.1 kristaps 52:
1.10 kristaps 53: - implement blank `Bl -column', such as
54: .Bl -column
55: .It foo Ta bar
56: .El
1.11 kristaps 57:
58: - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
59: flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
1.12 ! kristaps 60:
! 61: - set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned
1.10 kristaps 62:
1.1 kristaps 63: ************************************************************************
64: * formatting issues: ugly output
65: ************************************************************************
66:
67: - outside list context, text following .Sm off
68: seems to follow without a blank (TERM_NOBLANK reset late?) e.g.
69: .Sm off
70: .Xo
71: .Op Ar bind_address No /
72: .Ar port
73: .Xc
74: .Sm on
75: or by enclosing
76: reported by jmc Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:48:14 +0100
77:
78: - do not break the line after "--", it's probably a long option
79: reminded by stsp in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200
80:
81: - URGENT, this is making many kernel manuals look bad:
82: .Ft/.Fn should MAYBE behave in custom section like in SYNOPSIS?
83: autoconf.9:
84: .Sh DIRECT CONFIGURATION
85: .nr nS 1
86: .Ft "struct device *"
87: .Fn config_found_sm "struct device *parent"
88: groff:
89: DIRECT CONFIGURATION
90: struct device *
91: config_found_sm(struct device *parent, ...
92: reported by sthen Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:51 +0100
93:
94: - indentation got lost in SYNOPSIS, e.g.
95: SYNOPSIS
96: date [-ajnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format]
97: - [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
98: + [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
99: reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200
100:
101: - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks
102: try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta
103: reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400
104:
1.5 joerg 105: - nroff inserts a space before :, mandoc doesn't:
106: .Dl expr "/$a" Li : '.*/\e(.*\e)'
1.1 kristaps 107:
108: ************************************************************************
109: * formatting issues: gratuitious differences
110: ************************************************************************
111:
1.7 schwarze 112: - FIXED OpenBSD mdoc.c 1.52 schwarze 16.5.10
113: lines containing blank characters, and nothing else,
1.1 kristaps 114: in literal context (.Bd -literal):
115: groff outputs just blank lines "\n"
116: mandoc outputs blanks to the left margin,
117: then the number of balnks minus one
1.7 schwarze 118: NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
1.1 kristaps 119:
120:
121: ************************************************************************
122: * parser errors without any effect on formatting
123: ************************************************************************
124:
125: - OpenBSD::PackageName(3p) has "if (block) 90:1" in the parse tree
126:
1.9 kristaps 127: ************************************************************************
128: * performance issues
129: ************************************************************************
130:
131: Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
132:
133: - cache `Bd' display types as `Bl' types are cached (this primarily
134: improves code-size by removing the a2disp type functions)
135:
136: - improve caching mechanism to handle other per-element arguments so
137: that they need not be recalculated between front- and back-ends (also
138: reduces code size and complexity)
139:
140: - improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)
141:
142: - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
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