Annotation of mandoc/TODO, Revision 1.19
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:
1.18 schwarze 9: - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
10: see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message
11:
1.17 schwarze 12: - we need real .ds; for example, terminfo.3 has
13: .ds n 5
14: and then later
15: \fBterminfo\fR(\*n)
16: reported orally by halex@ during c2k10
17:
18: - \*(Pu is not implemented, but used in mdoc.samples
19: implementing .ds would solve this as well
20: reminded by jmc@, last on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:29:18 +0100
21:
1.1 kristaps 22: - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
23: ultimate goal:
24: restore .Xr and .Dv to
25: lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3
26: lib/libc/gen/signal.3
27: lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
28:
29: - implement \\
30: in plain text, identical to \e
31: as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character
32: We do not have macro definitions yet; if we implement them,
33: \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,
34: and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.
35:
36: - look at bsd.lv tbl(1)
37: from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200
1.17 schwarze 38: also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD
39: on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200
1.1 kristaps 40:
41: - look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1)
42: These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level
43: roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope.
44: noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200
45: reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100
46:
1.10 kristaps 47: - implement blank `Bl -column', such as
48: .Bl -column
49: .It foo Ta bar
50: .El
1.11 kristaps 51:
52: - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
53: flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
1.12 kristaps 54:
55: - set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned
1.13 kristaps 56:
57: - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke
1.15 kristaps 58:
59: - ignore horrendous m[] font colouring
60: reported by J.C. Roberts
1.10 kristaps 61:
1.1 kristaps 62: ************************************************************************
63: * formatting issues: ugly output
64: ************************************************************************
65:
66: - outside list context, text following .Sm off
67: seems to follow without a blank (TERM_NOBLANK reset late?) e.g.
68: .Sm off
69: .Xo
70: .Op Ar bind_address No /
71: .Ar port
72: .Xc
73: .Sm on
74: or by enclosing
75: reported by jmc Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:48:14 +0100
76:
77: - indentation got lost in SYNOPSIS, e.g.
78: SYNOPSIS
79: date [-ajnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format]
80: - [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
81: + [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
82: reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200
83:
84: - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks
85: try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta
86: reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400
87:
88: ************************************************************************
89: * formatting issues: gratuitious differences
90: ************************************************************************
91:
1.19 ! schwarze 92: - none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
1.1 kristaps 93:
1.9 kristaps 94: ************************************************************************
95: * performance issues
96: ************************************************************************
97:
98: Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
99:
100: - improve caching mechanism to handle other per-element arguments so
101: that they need not be recalculated between front- and back-ends (also
1.16 kristaps 102: reduces code size and complexity):
103: `Bl -column' pointer
104: `Bf' font type
1.9 kristaps 105:
106: - improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)
107:
108: - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
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