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Line 33 Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, the

are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

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* assertion failures

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- .if n .ce in the middle of .TS data

afl case f1/id:000103,sig:06,src:009024+009105,op:splice,rep:2 (jes@)

While roff_parseln() prevents .ce and similar requests in the middle

of a tbl, the guard is no longer effective when the .ce is wrapped

in a roff block, for example a conditional. The resulting assertion

has never been seen in any real-world manual page.

This is too dangerous to fix before release because it requires

reorganizing the very delicate internals of roff_parseln(),

which risks causing more severe bugs.

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************************************************************************

* missing features

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Line 52 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 67 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1)

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- .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+)

found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700

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- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1)

when implementing this, also let .TH set it

reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500

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- .ta (tab settings)

#1 most important issue naddy@ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100

ircbug(1) gnats(1) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500

also Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100

also posix2time(3) Carsten Kunze Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:03:10 +0100

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- .ti (temporary indent)

found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) [devel/libvstr] vstr(3)

found by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600

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- .while and .shift

found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200

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- \h horizontal move

#2 most important issue naddy@ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100

found in cclive(1) nasm(1) bogofilter(1) asciidoc/DocBook output

bentley@ on discuss@ Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:29:34 -0600

naddy@ Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:26:41 +0100

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- \n+ and \n- numerical register increment and decrement

found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700

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- \n(.$ macro argument count number register; ocserv(8) by autogen

found by sthen@ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:03:01 +0000

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- \w'' improve width measurements

would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below

needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100

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- \\ in high-level macro arguments

- .als only works for macros in mandoc, not for user-defined strings.

Currently, \\ is expanded in two situations:

Also, the "val" field in struct roffkv would have to be replaced

1) macro and string definition (roff.c setstrn())

with a pointer to a reference-counted wrapper, and an alias

2) macro argument parsing (mandoc.c mandoc_getarg())

would have to point to the same wrapper as the original.

For user defined macros, the second happens in time because of ROFF_REPARSE.

.als to undefined does nothing; the alias is not created.

But for standard high-level macros, it only happens after entering the

.rm'ing the original leaves the alias to point to the old value.

high level parsers, which is too late because the code doesn't get

.de .als .de changes both, but

back to roff.c roff_res() from that point. Because this requires

.de .als .rm .de only changes the new value, not the alias.

distinguishing requests, user-defined macros and standard macros

Found in groffer(1) version 1.19

on the roff_res() level, it is hard to solve without the parser reorg.

Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200

Found by naddy@ in devel/cutils cobfusc(1) Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0100

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- using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty

- roff string condition comparisons fail when vars contain quotes:

wl@ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000

.ds s '

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.if '\*s'' \&...

hard to fix because of the basic architecture (string replacement

happens before roff(7) syntax parsing)

Found in groffer(1) version 1.19

Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200

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- mandoc replaces all ASCII control characters except tab and line feed

with '?' during input. It would be better to replace them with

Unicode escapes in preconv_encode() or somewhere in the vicinity,

such that the already existing better replacement strings show

up in the output. Emulating groff is not desirable: groff replaces

0x00, 0x0b, and 0x0d to 0x1f with the empty string (bad because

that's easy to overlook for the document author), 0x01 with '.'

(very confusing), and passes through 0x02 to 0x08, 0x0c, and 0x7f

raw (bad because that is insecure output). Remember that 0x07 may

need special handling because it is sometimes used for certain

delimiters, so it may need handling *after* roff.c rather than before.

reminded by John Gardner 16 Jun 2020 14:26:28 +1000

Actually, more ASCII control characters than just 0x07 may need

later handling because they can for example be used in macro names.

So they may need handling after roff(7) processing.

pointed out by John Gardner 23 Jun 2020 18:28:08 +1000

more info from John Gardner 29 Jun 2020 19:54:04 +1000

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--- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------

- .Sh and .Ss should be parsed and partially callable, see groff_mdoc(7)

reed at reedmedia dot net Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:13:07 -0600

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- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing

ultimate goal:

restore .Xr and .Dv to

Line 129 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 136 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100

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- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not

easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which

we don't have either.

Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered

to be centered as well.

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- .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both

the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms

of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1).

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is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab."

but should give "ab ."

- check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1;

does it need its own constant?

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- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children

(e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1)

(mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified)

Line 193 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 189 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200

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--- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------

--- missing man features -----------------------------------------------

- horizontal lines in the layout still consume data cells

- groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL

and can be mixed with actual data on the same table line

These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page.

synaptics(4) found by tedu@ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400

The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too.

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We should probably *not* add them to mandoc.

Just mentioning this here to keep track of the abuse.

Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200

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- break long text into lines inside cells

--- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------

net/lftp(1) from jirib via bentley@ Sep 13, 2016

- layout l1 for a column of max text width 3 reduces the following

- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^

inter-column spacing for groff, but not for mandoc

pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200

net/lftp(1) from jirib via bentley@ Sep 13, 2016

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- the "w" layout option is ignored

synaptics(4) found by tedu@ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400

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- the "s" layout column specifier is used for placement of data

into columns, but ignored during column width calculations

synaptics(4) found by tedu@ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400

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- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code;

probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7)

use roff_node such that macro sets can mix;

informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this.

informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100

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- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port,

they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.

they use some unsupported tbl(7) features, mostly macros in tbl(7).

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- use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders

- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use

in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:31:48 +0100

suggested by bentley@ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600

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--- missing eqn features -----------------------------------------------

- In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line.

Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015.

Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015. Suggested by Avi Weinstock.

Suggested by Avi Weinstock.

This may not be the ideal solution after all: eqn(7) matrices

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are lists of columns, so Avi's proposal would show each *column*

on its own *line*, which is likely to cause confusion.

A better solution, but much harder to implement, would be to

actually show the coordinates of column vectors on different

terminal output lines, using the clumnated output facilities

developed for .Bl -tag, .Bl -column, and also used for tbl(7).

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- The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter.

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Line 249 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 242 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15.

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- GNU eqn converts some operators to special characters, for example,

input HYPHEN-MINUS becomes output \(mi, unless it is part of a

quoted word. mandoc(1) only does this when the operator is

surrounded by blanks, not when it is part of an unquoted word.

Also, check whether there are more such cases (e.g., +?).

reported by bentley@ 20 Jun 2017 02:04:29 -0600

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- Primes, opprime, and '

bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:14:20 -0600

--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------

- -T man does not handle eqn(7) and tbl(7)

Stephen Gregoratto 16 Feb 2020 01:28:07 +1100

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- man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally

- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode

Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46

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Line 259 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 269 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

even for apropos title line output; req by bapt@

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- makewhatis(8) for preformatted pages:

parse the section number from the header line

and compare to the section number from the directory name

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- Does makewhatis(8) detect missing NAME sections, missing names,

and missing descriptions in all the file formats?

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- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes:

(1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content

(2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content

Line 279 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 280 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)

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- Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) needs either a markdown output formatter

for mandoc -mdoc or a markdown to mdoc converter because they

have to maintain manuals needed both in markdown and mdoc format.

Look at the libsoldout (markdown -> whatever)

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--- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------

- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?

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Line 291 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

- look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download

Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches

Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200

ported version: https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3

Carsten Kunze Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:21:43 +0200

- look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1)

These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level

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Line 327 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc

Amitai Schlair Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400

- check compatibility with

https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc

- check features of the Slackware man.conf(5) format

Carsten Kunze Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:24 +0100

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* formatting issues: ugly output

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Line 378 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 381 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

.Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ...

from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200

- implicit whitespace around inline equations

example code: where '$times$' denotes matrix multiplication

must not have an HTML line break, nor a blank, before <math>

partial solution: html.c {"math", HTML_NLINSIDE | HTML_INDENT},

bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:00:59 -0600

- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence

reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059

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- 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

by syntax tree nodes.

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- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc

reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc...

reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600

--- PDF issues ---------------------------------------------------------

--- PostScript and PDF issues ------------------------------------------

- PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal

Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf".

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Line 411 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

instructions from juanfra@ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200

add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier

and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)).

re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100

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--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------

- 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

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- .Bf at the beginning of a paragraph inserts a bogus 1ex horizontal

space, see for example random(3). Introduced in

http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_html.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92

Line 412 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 429 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014:

try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking

and render them with <a class="Xr" href=...>

https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15

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- space characters can end up in href= attributes, for example coming

from the first .Xr argument (where they make no sense, but still);

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 <body> to the max-width given for <html>.

Not yet sure how to fix that...

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Line 445 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1

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- consider whether <var> can be used for Ar Dv Er Ev Fa Va.

from bentley@ Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:17:55 -0600

- generate <img> 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

Line 465 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 487 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure.

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- .Nx 1.0a

should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a",

see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).

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- In .Bl -tag, if a tag exceeds the right margin and must be continued

on the next line, it must be indented by -width, not width+1;

see "rule block|pass" in OpenBSD ifconfig(8).

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- When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered

before measuring the width, for example

.Bl -tag -width ".Dv message"

Line 483 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 495 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

The same applies to .Bl -column column widths;

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@

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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.

Line 493 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 506 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc.

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- Header lines of excessive length:

Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c

and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY

found while talking to Chris Bennett

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- Sequences of multiple man(7) paragraphs (.PP, .IP) interspersed

with .ps and .nf/.fi produce execessive blank lines, see libJudy

and graphics/dcmtk. The parser reorg may help with this.

Line 515 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 522 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

* warning issues

************************************************************************

- provide a way in mandoc(1) to warn about broken .Xr links;

- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads

probably cannot be on by default in -Tlint because it needs

gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200

to access the manpath and mandoc.db(3) after parsing.

asked for by jmc@ Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:39:40 +0000

- Report errors in -O suboption parsing.

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- style message about macros inside .Bd -literal and .Dl, in particular

font changing macros like .Cm, .Ar, .Fa (from the mdoclint TODO)

- style message about mismatches between the section number in the

file name (if it is known) and the section number in .Dt

(from the mdoclint TODO)

- style message about NULL without .Dv (from the mdoclint TODO)

- style message about error constants without .Er (from the mdoclint TODO)

- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros

Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034

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- check that MANDOCERR_BADTAB is thrown in the right cases,

- style message about violations of the convention

i.e. when finding a literal tab character in fill mode,

.An name Aq Mt localpart@domain in AUTHORS (from the mdoclint TODO)

and possibly change the wording of the warning message

to refer to fill mode, not literal mode

See the mail from Werner LEMBERG on the groff list,

Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:54:42 +0100 (CET)

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- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros

Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100

Line 543 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 552 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.

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- warn about "new sentence, new line"

- warn about punctuation - e.g. ',' and ';' - at the beginning

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of a text line, if it is likely intended to follow the preceding

output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a

macro line (from the mdoclint TODO)

- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,

- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories:

but just the overall format

/usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part

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- integrate mdoclint into mandoc ("end-of-line whitespace" thread)

from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0100

from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0200

from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:37 +0059

from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:02:03 +0200

(mostly done, check what remains)

- -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout

to tech@mdocml, naddy@ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200

wait! kristaps@ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0200

************************************************************************

* documentation issues

************************************************************************

- mention hyphenation rules:

breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args)

proper hyphenation is unimplemented

- talk about spacing around delimiters

to jmc@, kristaps@ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200

- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain

is this useful?

Line 584 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

Line 577 are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.

* performance issues

************************************************************************

- Why are we using MAP_SHARED, not MAP_PRIVATE for mmap(2)?

from kristaps@ Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:51:36 +0200

Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are

- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)

- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)

- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets

- instead of re-initialising the roff predefined-strings set before each

parse, create a read-only version the first time and copy it

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* structural issues

************************************************************************

Line 610 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Line 590 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Found by Aaron M. Ucko in the GNU Hurd via Bdale Garbee,

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624

- We use the input line number at several places to distinguish

- Is it possible to further simplify ENDBODY_SPACE?

same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work

with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage.

- Find better ways to prevent endless loops

in roff(7) macro and string expansion.

- Finish cleanup of date handling.

- make buffers for parsing functions const

Decide which formats should be recognized where.

christos@ via wiz@ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:10:01 +0100

Update both mdoc(7) and man(7) documentation.

Triggered by Tim van der Molen Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:30:45 +0100

- struct mparse refactoring

Steffen Nurpmeso Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200

Line 629 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Line 605 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

* CGI issues

************************************************************************

- Inspect httpd(8) logs on man.openbsd.org and consider

whether logging can be improved, where bad syntax comes from,

and what needs to be done to get rid of COMPAT_OLDURI.

- Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering

output through libz.

- Sandbox (see OpenSSH).

- Privilege separation (see OpenSSH).

- Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since.

- Allow for cgi.h to be overridden by CGI environment variables.

Otherwise, binary distributions will inherit the compile-time

behaviour, which is not optimal.

- Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the

CGI: -static isn't supported.

************************************************************************

* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

************************************************************************

- delete OS release verification from .Dx, .Fx, .Nx, .Ox etc.

https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629161

also Branden Robinson 18 Dec 2019 00:59:52 +1100

- Can the distinction between .Vt and .Va be made stricter,

recommending .Vt extern char * Ns Va optarg ; ?

What about the block macro properties of .Vt in the SYNOPSIS?

zeurkous 25 Dec 2019 08:48:36 +0100

- .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages:

find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe:

allow .Dt vgafb 4 "macppc sparc64"

already shown as "Device Drivers Manual (macppc sparc64)"

for apropos, make that "vgafb(4) - macppc # sparc64" instead of "- all"

groff can be made to show multiple arches, too, but it is

tedious to do the string parsing in roff code...

jmc@ 23 Apr 2018 07:24:52 +0100 [man for vgafb(4)...]

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- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time

tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100

- apostrophe (39), circumflex (94), grave (96), tilde (126)

in manuals: \(aq, \(ha, \`, \(ti

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

bentley@ 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 -0600

Do we need to fix existing manuals?

Do we need to fix the definition of the mdoc(7) language?

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