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* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.318 2021/09/10 12:48:19 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.327 2022/08/09 12:24:12 schwarze Exp $
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Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
@@ -68,7 +68,12 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
but watch out for regressions in the high-level parsers
maybe it should not even remove comments? - consider T{\"
+- tag.c, tag_put() should not put ASCII_HYPH into the tag file,
+ which happens when the tag contains "-" on the input side
+ weerd@ 28 Sep 2021 12:44:07 +0200
+ loc * exist * algo * size * imp ***
+
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* missing features
************************************************************************
@@ -292,11 +297,27 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------
+- conisder whether man(1) fallback code in main.c/fs_*() can find files
+ like man3c/fopen.3c (illumos, Solaris) and man3p/fopen.3p (POSIX)
+ discussed with Robert Mustacchi 21 Sep 2021 10:39:40 -0700
+ loc * exist * algo ** size * imp **
+
- let makewhatis(8) follow symbolic links to dirs below READ_ALLOWED_PATH
this may be feasible using fts_set(FTS_FOLLOW)
mail to sternenseemann 19 Aug 2021 19:11:50 +0200
loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
+- tag.c, tag_put() and callers like man_validate.c, check_tag()
+ should not mistake "\-" as a word-ending escape sequence but
+ instead translate it to plain "-" in the tag name
+ weerd@ 28 Sep 2021 12:44:07 +0200
+ loc ** exist * algo * size * imp ***
+
+- handle Unicode letters in tags in both HTML and terminal output
+ thread "section headers with diacritics" starting with
+ Mario Blaettermann 24 Mar 2022 18:13:23 +0100
+ loc ** exist * algo * size * imp **
+
- -T man does not handle eqn(7) and tbl(7)
Stephen Gregoratto 16 Feb 2020 01:28:07 +1100
also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901636
@@ -438,6 +459,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ***
+- the man(7) single-font macros (e.g. .B) use .itc,
+ so ".B foo\c" followed by "bar" prints "bar" in bold
+ gbranden@ Sun, 5 Jun 2022 18:08:46 -0500
+
- a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace
and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)
This will become easier once escape sequences are represented
@@ -463,20 +488,42 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
-- make the HTML scaffolding customozable with -O skip=...
+- .Nm without an argument and .Bx cause premature
+ Nab Sun, 5 Jun 2022 18:30:09 +0200
+
+- .Aq Mt could set and reset "white-space: nowrap";
+ Check whether other enclosure macros could profit from similar handling,
+ or whether that is covered by Unicode line-breaking classes WJ, ZW, GL, ZWJ.
+ John Gardner 25 Mar 2022 04:44:27 +1100
+
+- make the HTML scaffolding customizable with -O skip=...
mail to Oliver Corff 3 Jun 2021 17:28:02 +0200
more feedback from Oliver 3 Jun 2021 18:27:56 +0200
more feedback from Oliver 3 Jun 2021 23:37:18 +0200
+ would also be useful for
+ https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds-www/blob/master/
+ maintainer/support/man_postproc.awk
- .Bd -unfilled should not use monospaced font
anton@ 4 Mar 2021 08:19:35 +0100
loc ** exist * algo * size * imp **
-- HTML formatting of .nf should avoid
+- HTML formatting of .nf should avoid
,
+ even when input lines start with whitespace,
and not close and re-open
on .P my mail to ports@ 27 Jun 2021 16:09:20 +0200 + reported again by Mohamed Akram 25 Jun 2022 16:28:18 +0000 loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp ** +- tbl(7) HTML output does not implement column width specifications + reported by Ted Bullock 11 Jan 2022 16:00:44 -0700 + loc * exist * algo ? size ? imp * + +- link from flags in the SYNOPSIS to their descriptions + https://github.com/gbdev/rgbds-www/blob/master/ + maintainer/support/man_postproc.awk + loc * exist * algo ** size * imp * + - get rid of the last handful of style= attributes such that Content-Security-Policy: can be enabled without unsafe-inline suggested by bentley@ Nov 10, 2019 at 06:02:49AM -0700 @@ -499,19 +546,18 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. does this affect other characters, other source macros...? Jackson Pauls 29 Aug 2017 16:56:27 +0100 -- The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force - the width of the to the max-width given for . - Not yet sure how to fix that... - Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org: - http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1 - loc * exist * algo ** size * imp *** - - generate tags in HTML idea from florian@ Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:26:28 +0000 may be possible to implement with .Lk img://something.png alt_text - check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml +--- CSS issues --------------------------------------------------------- + +- use flexbox for .Bl-tag instead of the fragile float/clear mechanism + John Gardner 25 Mar 2022 04:44:27 +1100 + + ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: gratuitous differences ************************************************************************ @@ -557,6 +603,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200 reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@ + https://reviews.freebsd.org/D35245 + even groff_mdoc(7) uses this: Nab Sun, 5 Jun 2022 22:16:37 +0200 + When implementing this, try to avoid breaking existing manuals, + or at least fix them: Jan Stary Sun, 5 Jun 2022 22:48:05 +0200 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring.