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* Official mandoc TODO. May not be quite up to date. |
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* missing features |
* missing features |
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- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks |
- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks |
see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message |
see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message |
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- we need real .ds; for example, terminfo.3 has |
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.ds n 5 |
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and then later |
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\fBterminfo\fR(\*n) |
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reported orally by halex@ during c2k10 |
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- \*(Pu is not implemented, but used in mdoc.samples |
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implementing .ds would solve this as well |
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reminded by jmc@, last on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:29:18 +0100 |
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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 |
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lib/libc/gen/signal.3 |
lib/libc/gen/signal.3 |
lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 |
lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 |
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- edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g. |
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.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 |
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- auto-Bk in the SYNOPSIS |
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patch from kristaps@ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:51:24 +0200 |
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to be revisited after OpenBSD 4.8 tree unlock |
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- implement \\ |
- implement \\ |
in plain text, identical to \e |
in plain text, identical to \e |
as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character |
as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character |
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from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 |
from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 |
also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD |
also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD |
on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200 |
on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200 |
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joerg@ has patches for this somewhere... |
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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 |
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- have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke |
- have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke |
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- ignore horrendous m[] font colouring |
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reported by J.C. Roberts |
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- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children |
- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children |
(e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) |
(e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) |
(mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) |
(mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) |
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- allow `Qq', `Dq', `Sq', `Aq', `Bq' to have 0 arguments |
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noted by Alex Kozlov 08/06/10 23:05 |
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* formatting issues: ugly output |
* formatting issues: ugly output |
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- outside list context, text following .Sm off |
- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@ |
seems to follow without a blank (TERM_NOBLANK reset late?) e.g. |
1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too |
.Sm off |
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.Xo |
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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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or by enclosing |
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reported by jmc Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:48:14 +0100 |
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- indentation got lost in SYNOPSIS, e.g. |
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SYNOPSIS |
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date [-ajnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format] |
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- [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] |
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+ [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]] |
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reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200 |
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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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- %A doesn't put an "and" before the final author name. |
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* formatting issues: gratuitious differences |
* formatting issues: gratuitious differences |
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Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are |
Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are |
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- improve caching mechanism to handle other per-element arguments so |
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that they need not be recalculated between front- and back-ends (also |
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reduces code size and complexity): |
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`Bl -column' pointer |
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`Bf' font type |
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- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance) |
- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance) |
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- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) |
- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) |
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* structural issues |
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- rendering frontend code can calculate widths only for plain strings, |
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not for strings containing escape sequences. For example, this |
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hinders calculation of the indent required for .Nm \&[ in text(1). |
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comments from kristaps@ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:26:08 +0200 |
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