Annotation of mandoc/TODO, Revision 1.199
1.1 kristaps 1: ************************************************************************
1.37 kristaps 2: * Official mandoc TODO.
1.199 ! schwarze 3: * $Id: TODO,v 1.198 2015/02/10 08:05:30 schwarze Exp $
1.27 kristaps 4: ************************************************************************
1.145 schwarze 5:
1.184 schwarze 6: Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
7:
8: - loc = locality of the issue
9: * single file issue, affects file only, or very few
10: ** single module issue, affects several files of one module
11: *** cross-module issue, significantly impacts multiple modules
12: and may require substantial changes to internal interfaces
13: - exist = difficulty of the existing code in this area
14: * affected code is straightforward and easy to read and change
15: ** affected code is somewhat complex, but once you understand
16: the design, not particularly difficult to understand
17: *** affected code uses a special, exceptionally tricky design
18: - algo = difficulty of the new algorithm to be written
19: * the required logic and code is straightforward
20: ** the required logic is somewhat complex and needs a careful design
21: *** the required logic is exceptionally tricky,
22: maybe an approach to solve that is not even known yet
23: - size = the amount of code to be written or changed
24: * a small number of lines (at most 100, usually much less)
25: ** a considerable amount of code (several dozen to a few hundred)
26: *** a large amount of code (many hundreds, maybe thousands)
27: - imp = importance of the issue
28: * mostly for completeness
29: ** would be nice to have
30: *** issue causes considerable inconvenience
31:
32: Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations
33: are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
34:
1.145 schwarze 35: ************************************************************************
36: * crashes
37: ************************************************************************
38:
1.169 schwarze 39: - The abort() in bufcat(), html.c, can be triggered via buffmt_includes()
40: by running -Thtml -Oincludes on a file containing a long .In argument.
41: Fixing this will probably require reworking the whole bufcat() concept.
1.184 schwarze 42: loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp **
1.101 schwarze 43:
1.61 schwarze 44: ************************************************************************
1.1 kristaps 45: * missing features
46: ************************************************************************
1.70 kristaps 47:
1.79 schwarze 48: --- missing roff features ----------------------------------------------
49:
1.82 schwarze 50: - .ad (adjust margins)
51: .ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left)
52: .ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right)
53: .ad c -- center text on line
54: .ad b -- adjust both margins (alias: .ad n)
55: .na -- temporarily disable adjustment without changing the mode
56: .ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode
57: Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf).
1.184 schwarze 58: loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help)
1.150 schwarze 59:
60: - .fc (field control)
61: found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1)
1.184 schwarze 62: loc ** exist *** algo * size * imp *
1.198 schwarze 63:
1.160 schwarze 64: - .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+)
65: found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700
1.184 schwarze 66: loc * exist * algo * size * imp **
1.160 schwarze 67:
1.80 schwarze 68: - .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1)
69: reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500
1.184 schwarze 70: loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *
1.61 schwarze 71:
1.81 schwarze 72: - .ta (tab settings) occurs in ircbug(1) and probably gnats(1)
73: reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500
1.167 schwarze 74: also Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100
1.191 schwarze 75: also posix2time(3) Carsten Kunze Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:03:10 +0100
76: loc ** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ***
1.150 schwarze 77:
78: - .ti (temporary indent)
1.197 schwarze 79: found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) [devel/libvstr] vstr(3)
1.150 schwarze 80: found by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600
1.184 schwarze 81: loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** (parser reorg helps a lot)
1.154 schwarze 82:
1.198 schwarze 83: - .while and .shift
1.154 schwarze 84: found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200
1.184 schwarze 85: loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp **
1.155 schwarze 86:
87: - \h horizontal move
1.194 schwarze 88: found in cclive(1) and nasm(1) asciidoc/DocBook output
89: bentley@ on discuss@ Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:29:34 -0600
90: naddy@ Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:26:41 +0100
1.184 schwarze 91: loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** (parser reorg helps a lot)
1.125 schwarze 92:
1.160 schwarze 93: - \n+ and \n- numerical register increment and decrement
94: found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700
1.184 schwarze 95: loc * exist * algo * size * imp **
1.160 schwarze 96:
1.184 schwarze 97: - \w'' improve width measurements
1.167 schwarze 98: would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below
99: needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100
1.184 schwarze 100: loc ** exist *** algo *** size * imp ***
1.167 schwarze 101:
1.125 schwarze 102: - using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty
103: wl@ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000
1.184 schwarze 104: loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
1.167 schwarze 105:
1.79 schwarze 106: --- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
1.18 schwarze 107:
1.1 kristaps 108: - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
109: ultimate goal:
110: restore .Xr and .Dv to
111: lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3
112: lib/libc/gen/signal.3
113: lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
1.184 schwarze 114: loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp **
1.1 kristaps 115:
1.28 schwarze 116: - edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g.
117: .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1)
118: from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100
1.184 schwarze 119: loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp **
1.28 schwarze 120:
1.174 schwarze 121: - .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not
122: easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which
123: we don't have either.
124: Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered
125: to be centered as well.
1.184 schwarze 126: loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help)
1.174 schwarze 127:
1.82 schwarze 128: - .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both
129: the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms
130: of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1).
1.184 schwarze 131: loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help)
1.22 schwarze 132:
1.10 kristaps 133: - implement blank `Bl -column', such as
134: .Bl -column
135: .It foo Ta bar
136: .El
1.184 schwarze 137: loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp *
1.11 kristaps 138:
139: - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
140: flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
1.184 schwarze 141: loc * exist * algo * size * imp **
1.102 schwarze 142:
143: - In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded
144: as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly
145: ugly code from login.conf(5):
146: .Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd
147: .It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH
148: .br
149: Default search path.
150: reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net>
151: via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059
1.184 schwarze 152: loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **
1.42 schwarze 153:
154: - inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal
155: text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -."
156:
157: - inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf'
158: is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab."
159: but should give "ab ."
1.12 kristaps 160:
1.174 schwarze 161: - check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1;
162: does it need its own constant?
1.184 schwarze 163: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.174 schwarze 164:
1.20 kristaps 165: - prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children
166: (e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1)
167: (mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified)
1.109 schwarze 168:
1.174 schwarze 169: - support translated section names
170: e.g. x11/scrotwm scrotwm_es.1:21:2: error: NAME section must be first
171: that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish...
172: deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour
173: is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant
1.184 schwarze 174: loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.174 schwarze 175:
1.109 schwarze 176: - When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains
177: the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line
178: macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line.
179: No idea how the logic for distinguishing in-line and block instances
180: should be, needs investigation.
181: uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200
182: uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200
1.184 schwarze 183: loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp **
1.57 kristaps 184:
1.79 schwarze 185: --- missing man features -----------------------------------------------
186:
1.119 kristaps 187: - -T[x]html doesn't stipulate non-collapsing spaces in literal mode
1.80 schwarze 188:
1.79 schwarze 189: --- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------
190:
1.171 schwarze 191: - look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port,
192: they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.
1.184 schwarze 193: loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp ***
1.171 schwarze 194:
1.183 schwarze 195: - use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders
196: in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output
197: suggested by bentley@ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600
1.184 schwarze 198: loc * exist ** algo * size * imp **
1.105 kristaps 199:
200: - allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout
201: delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line
202: reported by Yuri Pankov, Wed 18 May 2011 11:34:59 CEST
1.184 schwarze 203: loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.79 schwarze 204:
1.182 schwarze 205: --- missing eqn features -----------------------------------------------
206:
207: - The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter.
1.184 schwarze 208: loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
1.182 schwarze 209:
210: - The spacing characters `~', `^', and tab are currently ignored,
211: see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 2 section 4.
1.184 schwarze 212: loc * exist * algo ** size * imp **
1.182 schwarze 213:
214: - Mark and lineup are parsed and ignored,
215: see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15.
1.184 schwarze 216: loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp **
1.182 schwarze 217:
1.79 schwarze 218: --- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------
1.159 schwarze 219:
220: - italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode
221: Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46
1.184 schwarze 222: loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *
1.153 schwarze 223:
1.173 schwarze 224: - When makewhatis(8) encounters a FATAL parse error,
225: it silently treats the file as formatted, which makes no sense
226: at all for paths like man1/foo.1 - and which also contradicts
227: what the manual says at the end of the description.
228: The end result will be ENOENT for file names returned
229: by mansearch() in manpage.file.
1.184 schwarze 230: loc * exist * algo * size * imp **
1.173 schwarze 231:
1.171 schwarze 232: - makewhatis(8) for preformatted pages:
233: parse the section number from the header line
234: and compare to the section number from the directory name
1.184 schwarze 235: loc * exist * algo * size * imp **
1.171 schwarze 236:
237: - Does makewhatis(8) detect missing NAME sections, missing names,
238: and missing descriptions in all the file formats?
1.184 schwarze 239: loc * exist * algo * size * imp ***
1.171 schwarze 240:
1.79 schwarze 241: - clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes:
242: (1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content
243: (2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content
244: or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR
245: see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples
246: (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING
1.184 schwarze 247: loc *** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** (parser reorg helps)
1.83 schwarze 248:
1.174 schwarze 249: - kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)
1.184 schwarze 250: loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp *
1.174 schwarze 251:
252: --- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------
1.196 schwarze 253:
254: - write a configure check for [[:<:]] support and provide some
255: fallback for whatis(1) when it doesn't work;
256: Svyatoslav Mishyn Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:07:10 +0200
1.174 schwarze 257:
258: - is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?
259: sobrado@ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200
260:
1.175 schwarze 261: - compare output to Heirloom roff, Solaris roff, and
262: http://repo.or.cz/w/neatroff.git http://litcave.rudi.ir/
1.178 schwarze 263:
264: - look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download
265: Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches
266: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200
1.174 schwarze 267:
1.79 schwarze 268: - look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1)
269: These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level
270: roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope.
1.80 schwarze 271: For details, see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
1.79 schwarze 272: noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200
273: reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100
1.160 schwarze 274:
1.174 schwarze 275: - look at pages generated from ronn(1) github.com/rtomayko/ronn
276: (based on markdown)
277:
1.160 schwarze 278: - look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg
279: First impression is not that bad.
1.172 schwarze 280:
281: - look at pages generated by pandoc; see
282: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Man.hs
283: porting planned by kili@ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:46:28 +0200
1.71 schwarze 284:
285: - check compatibility with Plan9:
286: http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an
287: http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html
288: "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700
1.63 schwarze 289:
1.174 schwarze 290: - check compatibility with the man(7) formatter
291: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c
292:
1.186 schwarze 293: - check compatibility with
294: http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/contrib/mandoc/
295: https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc
296: Amitai Schlair Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400
297:
1.1 kristaps 298: ************************************************************************
299: * formatting issues: ugly output
300: ************************************************************************
1.87 kristaps 301:
1.195 schwarze 302: - revisit empty in-line macros
303: look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ."
304: Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100
305: loc *** exist *** algo *** size * imp **
306:
307: - a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurious
1.87 kristaps 308: start-with-whitespace printing of a newline
1.195 schwarze 309:
310: - In .Bl -column, .It a<tab>"b<tab>c"
311: shows the quotes in groff, but not in mandoc
312: loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **
1.1 kristaps 313:
1.39 schwarze 314: - In .Bl -column,
315: .It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length
316: ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too,
317: see OpenBSD iked.conf(5).
1.123 schwarze 318: reported again Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200
1.184 schwarze 319: loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp ***
1.39 schwarze 320:
1.1 kristaps 321: - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks
322: try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta
323: reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400
1.184 schwarze 324: loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp **
1.48 schwarze 325:
1.83 schwarze 326: - .%T can have trailing punctuation. Currently, it puts the trailing
327: punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope.
328: That element should rather be outside its scope, such that the
329: punctuation does not get underlines. This is not trivial to
330: implement because .%T then needs some features of in_line_eoln() -
331: slurp all arguments into one single text element - and one feature
332: of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope.
333: Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix".
1.184 schwarze 334: loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp **
1.83 schwarze 335:
1.147 schwarze 336: - Trailing punctuation after .%T triggers EOS spacing, at least
337: outside .Rs (eek!). Simply setting ARGSFL_DELIM for .%T is not
338: the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop.
339: reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100
1.184 schwarze 340: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.147 schwarze 341:
1.174 schwarze 342: - global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages
343: .Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ...
344: from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200
345:
1.48 schwarze 346: - in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence
347: reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
1.184 schwarze 348: loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ***
1.197 schwarze 349:
350: - a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace
351: and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)
352: loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp **
1.149 schwarze 353:
354: - formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc
355: reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc...
356: reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600
1.171 schwarze 357:
358: --- PDF issues ---------------------------------------------------------
359:
360: - PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal
361: Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf".
362: Search the text "Routing tables".
363: Also check what PostScript mode does when fixing this.
364: reported by juanfra@ Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:44:58 +0200
1.186 schwarze 365: instructions from juanfra@ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200
366: add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier
367: and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)).
368: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.173 schwarze 369:
370: --- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
371:
1.174 schwarze 372: - <dl><dt><dd> formatting is ugly
373: hints are easy to find on the web, e.g.
374: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713048/
375: see also matthew@ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:12 -0700
1.184 schwarze 376: loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ***
1.180 schwarze 377:
1.187 schwarze 378: - jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014:
379: try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking
380:
1.180 schwarze 381: - The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force
382: the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>.
383: Not yet sure how to fix that...
384: Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org:
385: http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1
1.184 schwarze 386: loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ***
1.177 schwarze 387:
388: - consider whether <var> can be used for Ar Dv Er Ev Fa Va.
389: from bentley@ Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:17:55 -0600
1.174 schwarze 390:
1.173 schwarze 391: - check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml
1.35 kristaps 392:
1.1 kristaps 393: ************************************************************************
1.104 kristaps 394: * formatting issues: gratuitous differences
1.1 kristaps 395: ************************************************************************
1.187 schwarze 396:
397: - .Fn reopens a new scope after punctuation in mandoc,
398: but closes its scope for good in groff.
399: Do we want to change mandoc or groff?
400: Steffen Nurpmeso Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:34:59 +0100
401: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.103 schwarze 402:
1.174 schwarze 403: - In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after
404: the number, mandoc breaks the line.
405: mail to kristaps@ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200
1.184 schwarze 406: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.174 schwarze 407:
1.103 schwarze 408: - .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one,
409: not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5).
410: reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059
1.129 schwarze 411: reported again by sthen@ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC)
1.184 schwarze 412: loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **
1.39 schwarze 413:
1.83 schwarze 414: - If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after
415: the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking.
416: See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1).
1.184 schwarze 417: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.83 schwarze 418:
419: - If the first line after .It is .D1, do not assert a blank line
420: in between, see for example tmux(1).
421: reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000
1.184 schwarze 422: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.147 schwarze 423:
424: - Trailing punctuation after .It should trigger EOS spacing.
425: reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100
426: Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure.
1.184 schwarze 427: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.83 schwarze 428:
1.39 schwarze 429: - .Nx 1.0a
430: should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a",
431: see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).
1.184 schwarze 432: loc * exist * algo * size * imp **
1.83 schwarze 433:
1.39 schwarze 434: - In .Bl -tag, if a tag exceeds the right margin and must be continued
435: on the next line, it must be indented by -width, not width+1;
436: see "rule block|pass" in OpenBSD ifconfig(8).
1.184 schwarze 437: loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **
1.56 schwarze 438:
1.83 schwarze 439: - When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered
440: before measuring the width, for example
441: .Bl -tag -width ".Dv message"
442: in magic(5), located in src/usr.bin/file, is the same
443: as -width 7n, not -width 11n.
1.129 schwarze 444: The same applies to .Bl -column column widths;
445: reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar
1.157 schwarze 446: reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200
1.184 schwarze 447: loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp ***
1.157 schwarze 448: An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts
449: with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring.
1.184 schwarze 450: loc * exist * algo * size * imp ***
1.83 schwarze 451:
1.56 schwarze 452: - The \& zero-width character counts as output.
453: That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp,
454: we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc.
1.184 schwarze 455: loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.83 schwarze 456:
1.64 schwarze 457: - Header lines of excessive length:
458: Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c
459: and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY
460: found while talking to Chris Bennett
1.184 schwarze 461: loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
1.83 schwarze 462:
463: - trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape,
1.198 schwarze 464: see for example
1.83 schwarze 465: makes
466: \fBdig \fR
467: operate in batch mode
468: in dig(1).
1.184 schwarze 469: loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.166 schwarze 470:
471: ************************************************************************
472: * warning issues
473: ************************************************************************
474:
475: - check that MANDOCERR_BADTAB is thrown in the right cases,
476: i.e. when finding a literal tab character in fill mode,
477: and possibly change the wording of the warning message
478: to refer to fill mode, not literal mode
479: See the mail from Werner LEMBERG on the groff list,
480: Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:54:42 +0100 (CET)
1.184 schwarze 481: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.188 schwarze 482:
483: - warn about attempts to call non-callable macros
484: Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100
485: Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff.
486: .Fn Po prints "Po()", .Ar Sh prints "file ..." and no "Sh".
487: Relatively hard because the relevant code is scattered
488: all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.
489: loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp **
1.174 schwarze 490:
491: - warn about "new sentence, new line"
1.184 schwarze 492: loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp **
1.174 schwarze 493:
494: - mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,
495: but just the overall format
1.184 schwarze 496: loc ** exist ** algo *** size ** imp **
1.174 schwarze 497:
498: - integrate mdoclint into mandoc ("end-of-line whitespace" thread)
499: from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0100
500: from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0200
501: from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:37 +0059
502: from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:02:03 +0200
1.184 schwarze 503: (mostly done, check what remains)
1.174 schwarze 504:
505: - -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout
506: to tech@mdocml, naddy@ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200
507: wait! kristaps@ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0200
508:
509: - for system errors, use errno/strerror/warn/err
510:
511: ************************************************************************
512: * documentation issues
513: ************************************************************************
514:
515: - mention hyphenation rules:
516: breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args)
517: proper hyphenation is unimplemented
518:
519: - talk about spacing around delimiters
520: to jmc@, kristaps@ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200
521:
522: - mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain
523: is this useful?
524:
525: - mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)?
1.185 schwarze 526:
527: - Is all the content from http://www.std.com/obi/BSD/doc/usd/28.tbl/tbl
528: covered in tbl(7)?
1.1 kristaps 529:
1.9 kristaps 530: ************************************************************************
531: * performance issues
532: ************************************************************************
1.176 schwarze 533:
534: - Why are we using MAP_SHARED, not MAP_PRIVATE for mmap(2)?
535: How does SQLITE_CONFIG_PAGECACHE actually work? Document it!
536: from kristaps@ Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:51:36 +0200
1.9 kristaps 537:
1.198 schwarze 538: Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
1.9 kristaps 539:
540: - improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)
541:
542: - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
1.23 kristaps 543:
1.37 kristaps 544: - the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets
1.115 kristaps 545:
546: - instead of re-initialising the roff predefined-strings set before each
1.198 schwarze 547: parse, create a read-only version the first time and copy it
1.184 schwarze 548: loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
1.37 kristaps 549:
1.23 kristaps 550: ************************************************************************
551: * structural issues
552: ************************************************************************
1.189 schwarze 553:
554: - Use libz directly instead of forking gunzip(1).
555: Suggested by bapt at FreeBSD among others.
1.122 schwarze 556:
557: - We use the input line number at several places to distinguish
558: same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work
559: with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage.
1.67 schwarze 560:
561: - Find better ways to prevent endless loops
562: in roff(7) macro and string expansion.
1.198 schwarze 563:
1.96 schwarze 564: - Finish cleanup of date handling.
1.91 schwarze 565: Decide which formats should be recognized where.
566: Update both mdoc(7) and man(7) documentation.
567: Triggered by Tim van der Molen Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:30:45 +0100
1.186 schwarze 568:
569: - struct mparse refactoring
570: Steffen Nurpmeso Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200
1.170 schwarze 571:
572: - Consider creating some views that will make the database more
573: readable from the sqlite3 shell. Consider using them to
574: abstract from the database structure, too.
575: suggested by espie@ Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:52:57 +0200
576:
1.179 kristaps 577: ************************************************************************
578: * CGI issues
579: ************************************************************************
580:
581: - Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering
582: output through libz.
583: - Sandbox (see OpenSSH).
584: - Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since.
585: - Allow for cgi.h to be overridden by CGI environment variables.
586: Otherwise, binary distributions will inherit the compile-time
587: behaviour, which is not optimal.
588: - Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the
589: CGI: -static isn't supported.
1.181 kristaps 590:
1.192 schwarze 591: ************************************************************************
592: * to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros
593: ************************************************************************
594:
595: - use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time
596: tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100
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