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* Official mandoc TODO. |
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* $Id$ |
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Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows: |
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- loc = locality of the issue |
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* single file issue, affects file only, or very few |
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** single module issue, affects several files of one module |
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*** cross-module issue, significantly impacts multiple modules |
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and may require substantial changes to internal interfaces |
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- exist = difficulty of the existing code in this area |
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* affected code is straightforward and easy to read and change |
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** affected code is somewhat complex, but once you understand |
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the design, not particularly difficult to understand |
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*** affected code uses a special, exceptionally tricky design |
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- algo = difficulty of the new algorithm to be written |
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* the required logic and code is straightforward |
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** the required logic is somewhat complex and needs a careful design |
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*** the required logic is exceptionally tricky, |
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maybe an approach to solve that is not even known yet |
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- size = the amount of code to be written or changed |
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* a small number of lines (at most 100, usually much less) |
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** a considerable amount of code (several dozen to a few hundred) |
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*** a large amount of code (many hundreds, maybe thousands) |
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- imp = importance of the issue |
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* mostly for completeness |
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** would be nice to have |
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*** issue causes considerable inconvenience |
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Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations |
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are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. |
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| * missing features |
* missing features |
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| - explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed |
--- missing roff features ---------------------------------------------- |
| at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh |
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| reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200 |
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- .ad (adjust margins) |
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.ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left) |
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.ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right) |
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.ad c -- center text on line |
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.ad b -- adjust both margins (alias: .ad n) |
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.na -- temporarily disable adjustment without changing the mode |
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.ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode |
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Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf). |
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loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) |
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- .fc (field control) |
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found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) |
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loc ** exist *** algo * size * imp * |
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- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1) |
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when implementing this, also let .TH set it |
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reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 |
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loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp * |
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- \w'' improve width measurements |
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would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below |
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needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100 |
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loc ** exist *** algo *** size * imp *** |
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- \\ in high-level macro arguments |
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Currently, \\ is expanded in two situations: |
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1) macro and string definition (roff.c setstrn()) |
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2) macro argument parsing (mandoc.c mandoc_getarg()) |
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For user defined macros, the second happens in time because of ROFF_REPARSE. |
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But for standard high-level macros, it only happens after entering the |
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high level parsers, which is too late because the code doesn't get |
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back to roff.c roff_res() from that point. Because this requires |
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distinguishing requests, user-defined macros and standard macros |
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on the roff_res() level, it is hard to solve without the parser reorg. |
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Found by naddy@ in devel/cutils cobfusc(1) Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0100 |
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loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp * |
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- check for missing roff escape sequences, implement those that are |
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trivial even if not usually appearing in manual pages, gracefully |
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ignore the non-trivial ones, document what they are supposed to do |
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and what mandoc does instead |
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loc * exist ** algo * size * imp * |
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--- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- |
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| - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing |
- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing |
| ultimate goal: |
ultimate goal: |
| restore .Xr and .Dv to |
restore .Xr and .Dv to |
| lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3 |
lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3 |
| lib/libc/gen/signal.3 |
lib/libc/gen/signal.3 |
| lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 |
lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 |
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loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp ** |
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| - .Bk / .Ek is broken, e.g. |
- edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g. |
| $ man ssh |
.Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1) |
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from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 |
| ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D |
loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp ** |
| [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11] |
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| reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200 |
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| also reported by jmc@ earlier |
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| - FIXED man(7) .TH should recognize "3p" as a section number |
- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not |
| found in usr.bin/pkg_add OpenBSD::Getopt |
easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which |
| NEEDS MERGING TO openbsd.org |
we don't have either. |
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Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered |
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to be centered as well. |
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loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) |
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| - implement \\ |
- .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both |
| in plain text, identical to \e |
the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms |
| as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character |
of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1). |
| We do not have macro definitions yet; if we implement them, |
loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) |
| \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument, |
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| and when using the macro, it must expand yet again. |
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| - look at bsd.lv tbl(1) |
- implement blank `Bl -column', such as |
| from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 |
.Bl -column |
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.It foo Ta bar |
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.El |
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loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp * |
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- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal |
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flags defined for struct mdoc_macro |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** |
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- In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded |
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as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly |
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ugly code from login.conf(5): |
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.Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd |
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.It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH |
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.br |
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Default search path. |
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reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net> |
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via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059 |
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loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** |
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- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal |
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text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -." |
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- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf' |
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is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab." |
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but should give "ab ." |
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- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children |
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(e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) |
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(mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) |
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- support translated section names |
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e.g. x11/scrotwm scrotwm_es.1:21:2: error: NAME section must be first |
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that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish... |
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deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour |
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is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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- When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains |
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the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line |
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macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line. |
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No idea how the logic for distinguishing in-line and block instances |
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should be, needs investigation. |
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uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200 |
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uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200 |
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loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ** |
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--- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- |
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- groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL |
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These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page. |
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The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too. |
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We should probably *not* add them to mandoc. |
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Just mentioning this here to keep track of the abuse. |
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Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200 |
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loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp * |
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--- missing tbl features ----------------------------------------------- |
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- the "s" layout column specifier is used for placement of data |
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into columns, but ignored during column width calculations |
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synaptics(4) found by tedu@ Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400 |
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loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ** |
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- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^ |
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pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 |
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loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp * |
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- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code; |
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probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7) |
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use roff_node such that macro sets can mix; |
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informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100 |
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loc *** exist ** algo *** size ** imp *** |
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- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port, |
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they use some unsupported tbl(7) features. |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** |
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- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use |
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Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:31:48 +0100 |
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- use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders |
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in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output |
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suggested by bentley@ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600 |
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loc * exist ** algo * size * imp ** |
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- implement horizontal and vertical alignment in HTML output |
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pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** |
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- implement cell spanning in HTML output |
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pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 |
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loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** |
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- implement table borders in HTML output |
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pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 |
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loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** |
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--- missing eqn features ----------------------------------------------- |
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- In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line. |
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Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015. |
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Suggested by Avi Weinstock. |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** |
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- The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter. |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp * |
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- The spacing characters `~', `^', and tab are currently ignored, |
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see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 2 section 4. |
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loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ** |
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- Mark and lineup are parsed and ignored, |
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see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15. |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** |
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- GNU eqn converts some operators to special characters, for example, |
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input HYPHEN-MINUS becomes output \(mi, unless it is part of a |
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quoted word. mandoc(1) only does this when the operator is |
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surrounded by blanks, not when it is part of an unquoted word. |
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Also, check whether there are more such cases (e.g., +?). |
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reported by bentley@ 20 Jun 2017 02:04:29 -0600 |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp * |
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- Primes, opprime, and ' |
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bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:14:20 -0600 |
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--- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- |
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- man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally |
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- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode |
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Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46 |
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loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp * |
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- change the default PAGER to more -Es and use the pager |
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even for apropos title line output; req by bapt@ |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** |
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- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: |
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(1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content |
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(2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content |
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or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR |
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see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples |
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(3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING |
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loc *** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** (parser reorg helps) |
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- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET) |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp * |
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--- compatibility checks ----------------------------------------------- |
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- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff? |
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sobrado@ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200 |
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- compare output to Heirloom roff, Solaris roff, and |
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http://repo.or.cz/w/neatroff.git http://litcave.rudi.ir/ |
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- look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download |
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Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches |
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Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200 |
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ported version: https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3 |
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Carsten Kunze Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:21:43 +0200 |
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| - look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1) |
- 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 |
These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level |
| roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. |
roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. |
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For details, see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html |
| noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 |
noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 |
| reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 |
reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 |
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- look at pages generated from ronn(1) github.com/rtomayko/ronn |
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(based on markdown) |
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| - FIXED OpenBSD term.h 1.16 term.c 1.30 mdoc_term.c 1.75 schwarze 23.4.10 |
- look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg |
| handle tab characters outside literal context, e.g. usb(4) |
First impression is not that bad. |
| reported by jmc@ Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:42:12 +0100 |
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| NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv |
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| - FIXED OpenBSD man.h 1.15 libman.h 1.16 man_hash.c 1.9 |
- look at pages generated by pandoc; see |
| man.c 1.25 man_macro.c 1.15 man_validate.c 1.19 man_action.c 1.15 |
https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Man.hs |
| man_term.c 1.28 man_html.c 1.9 schwarze 25.4. |
porting planned by kili@ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:46:28 +0200 |
| implement .if .ie .el |
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| noticed by espie@ Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:10:35 +0200 |
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| NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv |
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- check compatibility with Plan9: |
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http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an |
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http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html |
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"Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700 |
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- check compatibility with COHERENT troff: |
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http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php |
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- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter |
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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c |
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- check compatibility with |
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http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/contrib/mandoc/ |
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https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc |
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Amitai Schlair Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400 |
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- check features of the Slackware man.conf(5) format |
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Carsten Kunze Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:24 +0100 |
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| * formatting issues: ugly output |
* formatting issues: ugly output |
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| - outside list context, text following .Sm off |
- revisit empty in-line macros |
| seems to follow without a blank (TERM_NOBLANK reset late?) e.g. |
look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ." |
| .Sm off |
Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100 |
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| .Op Ar bind_address No / |
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| .Ar port |
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| .Xc |
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| .Sm on |
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| reported by jmc Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:48:14 +0100 |
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| - do not break the line after "--", it's probably a long option |
- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurious |
| reminded by stsp in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200 |
start-with-whitespace printing of a newline |
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| - URGENT, this is making many kernel manuals look bad: |
- In .Bl -column, .It a<tab>"b<tab>c" |
| .Ft/.Fn should MAYBE behave in custom section like in SYNOPSIS? |
shows the quotes in groff, but not in mandoc |
| autoconf.9: |
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| .Sh DIRECT CONFIGURATION |
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| .nr nS 1 |
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| .Ft "struct device *" |
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| .Fn config_found_sm "struct device *parent" |
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| groff: |
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| DIRECT CONFIGURATION |
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| struct device * |
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| config_found_sm(struct device *parent, ... |
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| reported by sthen Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:51 +0100 |
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| - indentation got lost in SYNOPSIS, e.g. |
- In .Bl -column, |
| SYNOPSIS |
.It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length |
| date [-ajnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format] |
ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, |
| - [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] |
see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). |
| + [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] |
reported again Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200 |
| reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200 |
loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** |
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| - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks |
- empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks |
| try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta |
try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta |
| reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400 |
reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400 |
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loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp ** |
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| - nroff inserts a space before :, mandoc doesn't: |
- .%T can have trailing punctuation. Currently, it puts the trailing |
| .Dl expr "/$a" Li : '.*/\e(.*\e)' |
punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope. |
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That element should rather be outside its scope, such that the |
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punctuation does not get underlines. This is not trivial to |
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implement because .%T then needs some features of in_line_eoln() - |
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slurp all arguments into one single text element - and one feature |
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of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope. |
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Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix". |
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loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp ** |
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- Trailing punctuation after .%T triggers EOS spacing, at least |
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outside .Rs (eek!). Simply setting ARGSFL_DELIM for .%T is not |
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the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop. |
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reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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- global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages |
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.Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ... |
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from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200 |
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- implicit whitespace around inline equations |
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example code: where '$times$' denotes matrix multiplication |
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must not have an HTML line break, nor a blank, before <math> |
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partial solution: html.c {"math", HTML_NLINSIDE | HTML_INDENT}, |
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bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:00:59 -0600 |
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- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence |
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reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 |
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loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp *** |
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- a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace |
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and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1) |
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loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp ** |
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- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc |
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reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc... |
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reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600 |
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--- PostScript and PDF issues ------------------------------------------ |
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- PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal |
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Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf". |
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Search the text "Routing tables". |
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Also check what PostScript mode does when fixing this. |
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reported by juanfra@ Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:44:58 +0200 |
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instructions from juanfra@ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200 |
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add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier |
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and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)). |
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re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100 |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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--- HTML issues -------------------------------------------------------- |
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- wrap Sh and Ss content into <div> |
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Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 21 Apr 2018 18:10:48 +0200 |
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(Evaluate whether this is really useful and has no adverse |
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side effects before implementing; if it is possible, |
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it does seem cleaner.) |
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loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *** |
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|
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- .IP wants vertical spacing before itself; |
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currently, it is formatted like .Bl -compact. |
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Fixing this requires getting rid of the "float" |
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in the CSS for .Bl-tag first. |
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Reminded by Pali Rohar 25 Oct 2018 10:10:35 +0200. |
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- format ".IP *" etc. as <ul> rather than <dl> |
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https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/67 |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp *** |
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|
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- .Bf at the beginning of a paragraph inserts a bogus 1ex horizontal |
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space, see for example random(3). Introduced in |
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http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_html.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92 |
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reported by deraadt@ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:14:13 -0600 (MDT) |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp * |
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- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014: |
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try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking |
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and render them with <a class="Xr" href=...> |
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https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15 |
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loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** |
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|
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- The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force |
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the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>. |
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Not yet sure how to fix that... |
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Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org: |
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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1 |
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loc * exist * algo ** size * imp *** |
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|
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- generate <img> tags in HTML |
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idea from florian@ Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:26:28 +0000 |
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may be possible to implement with .Lk img://something.png alt_text |
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|
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- check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml |
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| * formatting issues: gratuitious differences |
* formatting issues: gratuitous differences |
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|
| - lines containing blank characters, and nothing else, |
- .Fn reopens a new scope after punctuation in mandoc, |
| in literal context (.Bd -literal): |
but closes its scope for good in groff. |
| groff outputs just blank lines "\n" |
Do we want to change mandoc or groff? |
| mandoc outputs blanks to the left margin, |
Steffen Nurpmeso Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:34:59 +0100 |
| then the number of balnks minus one |
loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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- In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after |
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the number, mandoc breaks the line. |
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mail to kristaps@ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200 |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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|
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- .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one, |
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not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5). |
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reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059 |
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reported again by sthen@ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC) |
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loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** |
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- If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after |
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the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking. |
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See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1). |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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|
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- If the first line after .It is .D1, do not assert a blank line |
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in between, see for example tmux(1). |
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reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000 |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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|
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- Trailing punctuation after .It should trigger EOS spacing. |
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reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 |
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Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure. |
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loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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|
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- When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered |
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before measuring the width, for example |
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.Bl -tag -width ".Dv message" |
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in magic(5), located in src/usr.bin/file, is the same |
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as -width 7n, not -width 11n. |
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The same applies to .Bl -column column widths; |
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reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar |
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reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200 |
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reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@ |
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loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** |
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An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts |
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with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring. |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** |
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|
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- The \& zero-width character counts as output. |
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That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp, |
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we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc. |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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|
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- Sequences of multiple man(7) paragraphs (.PP, .IP) interspersed |
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with .ps and .nf/.fi produce execessive blank lines, see libJudy |
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and graphics/dcmtk. The parser reorg may help with this. |
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|
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- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape, |
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see for example |
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makes |
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\fBdig \fR |
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operate in batch mode |
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in dig(1). |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** |
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| * parser errors without any effect on formatting |
* warning issues |
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| - OpenBSD::PackageName(3p) has "if (block) 90:1" in the parse tree |
- When a man(1) command returns no result and there was an -S |
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argument, check the -S argument against the list of valid |
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architectures and say "Unknown architecture AAA" rather than |
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"No entry for NNN in the manual" if there is no match. |
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Requires moving the lists of valid architectures out of |
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mdoc_validate.c such that they can be used by main.c. |
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Discussed with jmc@ 10 Aug 2018 19:20:12 +0100. |
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loc ** exist * algo * size * imp ** |
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|
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- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads |
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gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200 |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** |
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|
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- style message about macros inside .Bd -literal and .Dl, in particular |
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font changing macros like .Cm, .Ar, .Fa (from the mdoclint TODO) |
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- style message about mismatches between the section number in the |
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file name (if it is known) and the section number in .Dt |
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(from the mdoclint TODO) |
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|
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- style message about NULL without .Dv (from the mdoclint TODO) |
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- style message about error constants without .Er (from the mdoclint TODO) |
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|
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- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros |
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Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034 |
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loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** |
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|
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- style message about violations of the convention |
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.An name Aq Mt localpart@domain in AUTHORS (from the mdoclint TODO) |
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|
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- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros |
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Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100 |
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Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff. |
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.Fn Po prints "Po()", .Ar Sh prints "file ..." and no "Sh". |
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Relatively hard because the relevant code is scattered |
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all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different. |
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loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** |
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|
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- style message about suspicious uses of - vs. \- vs. \(mi |
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e.g. -1 is likely wrong (from the mdoclint TODO) |
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|
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- 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 |
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output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a |
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macro line (from the mdoclint TODO) |
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|
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- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence, |
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but just the overall format |
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loc ** exist ** algo *** size ** imp ** |
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|
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- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories: |
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/usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part |
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* documentation issues |
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- dashes, hyphens, and minus signs in manual pages |
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jmc@ Fri, 28 Mar 2014 07:19:27 +0000 |
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|
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- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain |
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is this useful? |
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|
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- mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)? |
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|
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- Is all the content from http://www.std.com/obi/BSD/doc/usd/28.tbl/tbl |
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covered in tbl(7)? |
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* performance issues |
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************************************************************************ |
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|
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- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets |
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* structural issues |
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************************************************************************ |
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|
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- POSIX says in the documentation of sysconf(3) that PATH_MAX |
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is allowed to be so large that it is a bad idea to use it |
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for sizing static buffers. So use dynamic buffers throughout. |
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See the file test-PATH_MAX.c for details. |
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Found by Aaron M. Ucko in the GNU Hurd via Bdale Garbee, |
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https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624 |
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|
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- We use the input line number at several places to distinguish |
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same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work |
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with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage. |
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|
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- Is it possible to further simplify ENDBODY_SPACE? |
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|
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- Find better ways to prevent endless loops |
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in roff(7) macro and string expansion. |
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|
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- make buffers for parsing functions const |
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christos@ via wiz@ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:10:01 +0100 |
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|
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- struct mparse refactoring |
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Steffen Nurpmeso Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200 |
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* CGI issues |
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************************************************************************ |
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|
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- Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering |
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output through libz. |
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- Privilege separation (see OpenSSH). |
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- Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since. |
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- Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the |
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CGI: -static isn't supported. |
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* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros |
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************************************************************************ |
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- .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages: |
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find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe: |
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allow .Dt vgafb 4 "macppc sparc64" |
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already shown as "Device Drivers Manual (macppc sparc64)" |
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for apropos, make that "vgafb(4) - macppc # sparc64" instead of "- all" |
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groff can be made to show multiple arches, too, but it is |
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tedious to do the string parsing in roff code... |
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jmc@ 23 Apr 2018 07:24:52 +0100 [man for vgafb(4)...] |
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loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *** |
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- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time |
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tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100 |
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- apostrophe (39), circumflex (94), grave (96), tilde (126) |
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in manuals: \(aq, \(ha, \`, \(ti |
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Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages. |
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bentley@ 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 -0600 |
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Do we need to fix existing manuals? |
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Do we need to fix the definition of the mdoc(7) language? |
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