Annotation of mandoc/TODO, Revision 1.37
1.1 kristaps 1: ************************************************************************
1.37 ! kristaps 2: * Official mandoc TODO.
! 3: * $Id: TODO,v 1.36 2010/08/07 17:52:36 kristaps Exp $
1.27 kristaps 4: ************************************************************************
5:
6: ************************************************************************
1.1 kristaps 7: * missing features
8: ************************************************************************
9:
10: - explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed
11: at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh
12: reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200
13:
1.18 schwarze 14: - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
15: see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message
16:
1.1 kristaps 17: - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
18: ultimate goal:
19: restore .Xr and .Dv to
20: lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3
21: lib/libc/gen/signal.3
22: lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
23:
1.28 schwarze 24: - edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g.
25: .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1)
26: from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100
27:
28: - auto-Bk in the SYNOPSIS
29: patch from kristaps@ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:51:24 +0200
30: to be revisited after OpenBSD 4.8 tree unlock
31:
1.1 kristaps 32: - implement \\
33: in plain text, identical to \e
34: as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character
35: We do not have macro definitions yet; if we implement them,
36: \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,
37: and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.
1.22 schwarze 38:
1.1 kristaps 39: - look at bsd.lv tbl(1)
40: from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200
1.17 schwarze 41: also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD
42: on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200
1.35 kristaps 43: joerg@ has patches for this somewhere...
1.1 kristaps 44:
45: - look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1)
46: These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level
47: roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope.
48: noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200
49: reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100
50:
1.10 kristaps 51: - implement blank `Bl -column', such as
52: .Bl -column
53: .It foo Ta bar
54: .El
1.11 kristaps 55:
56: - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
57: flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
1.12 kristaps 58:
59: - set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned
1.13 kristaps 60:
61: - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke
1.20 kristaps 62:
63: - prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children
64: (e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1)
65: (mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified)
1.36 kristaps 66:
67: - allow `Qq', `Dq', `Sq', `Aq', `Bq' to have 0 arguments
68: noted by Alex Kozlov 08/06/10 23:05
1.10 kristaps 69:
1.1 kristaps 70: ************************************************************************
71: * formatting issues: ugly output
72: ************************************************************************
1.33 schwarze 73:
1.28 schwarze 74: - perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@
1.29 kristaps 75: 1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too
1.1 kristaps 76:
77: - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks
78: try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta
79: reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400
1.35 kristaps 80:
81: - %A doesn't put an "and" before the final author name.
1.1 kristaps 82:
83: ************************************************************************
84: * formatting issues: gratuitious differences
85: ************************************************************************
86:
1.19 schwarze 87: - none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
1.1 kristaps 88:
1.9 kristaps 89: ************************************************************************
90: * performance issues
91: ************************************************************************
92:
93: Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
94:
95: - improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)
96:
97: - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
1.23 kristaps 98:
1.37 ! kristaps 99: - the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets
! 100:
1.23 kristaps 101: ************************************************************************
102: * structural issues
103: ************************************************************************
1.33 schwarze 104:
105: - rendering frontend code can calculate widths only for plain strings,
106: not for strings containing escape sequences. For example, this
107: hinders calculation of the indent required for .Nm \&[ in text(1).
108: comments from kristaps@ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:26:08 +0200
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