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* Official mandoc TODO. May not be quite up to date. |
* Official mandoc TODO. |
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* $Id$ |
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* parser bugs |
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- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between |
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a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g. |
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.br \} |
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reported by ulrich spoerlein Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:39:50 +0200 |
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- .BI "string string " word punct in gettext(3) |
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add bogus line breaks (rep by naddy@) |
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committed; currently working on IP and TP? |
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and what about B and I? |
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* missing features |
* missing features |
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- pod2man expects `tr' to be implemented for \*(-- to work |
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- explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed |
- explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed |
at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh |
at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh |
reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200 |
reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200 |
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\\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument, |
\\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument, |
and when using the macro, it must expand yet again. |
and when using the macro, it must expand yet again. |
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- implement \s (physical font size) |
- implement basic non-parametric .de to support e.g. sox(1) |
\sN - set to N |
reported by naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200 |
\s+N - increment by N, 1 <= N <= 8 |
*** sox(1) still doesn't work, tbl(1) errors need investigation |
\s-N - decrement by N, 1 <= N <= 8 |
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\s0 - restore previous size |
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\s(nn \s+-(nn \s'+-nn' \s+-'nn' \s[+-nn] \s+-[nn] - disambiguate |
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registers: .s .ps .sr .psr |
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used by e.g. cu(1), tip(1) |
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- look at bsd.lv tbl(1) |
- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: |
from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 |
(1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content |
also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD |
(2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content |
on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200 |
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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- 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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- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal |
- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal |
flags defined for struct mdoc_macro |
flags defined for struct mdoc_macro |
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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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- set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned |
- set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned |
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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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- xloadimage(1) wants .ti (temporary indent), rep by naddy@ |
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- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after |
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.SM |
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.B something |
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should either just work or be a warning |
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reported by naddy@ |
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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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* formatting issues: ugly output |
* formatting issues: ugly output |
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- double quotes inside double quotes are escaped by doubling them |
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implement this in man(7) and mdoc(7) |
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reminded by millert@ Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:29:52 -0500 |
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- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@ |
- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@ |
1) "\ " is non-breaking |
1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too |
2) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too |
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- In .Bl -column, |
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.It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length |
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ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, |
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see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). |
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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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- .Pp before and after .Sh (and .Ss) produces a spurious blank line; |
- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence |
reported by jmc@ Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:28 +0100 |
reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 |
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* formatting issues: gratuitious differences |
* formatting issues: gratuitious differences |
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- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some) |
- .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named |
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or not (run a manual without `Nm blah' to see this). I'm not sure |
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that this exists in the wild, but it's still an error. |
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- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet |
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is just "o\bo". |
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see for example OpenBSD ksh(1) |
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- The characters "|" and "\*(Ba" should never be bold, |
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not even in the middle of a word, e.g. ".Cm b\*(Bac" in |
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"mknod [-m mode] name b|c major minor" |
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in OpenBSD ksh(1) |
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- A bogus .Pp between two .It must not produce a double blank line, |
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see between -R and -r in OpenBSD rm(1), before "update" in mount(8), |
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or in DIAGNOSTICS in init(8). |
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Also have `It' complain if `Pp' is invoked at certain times (not |
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-compact?). |
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- .Nx 1.0a |
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should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a", |
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see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8). |
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- In .Bl -tag, if a tag exceeds the right margin and must be continued |
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on the next line, it must be indented by -width, not width+1; |
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see "rule block|pass" in OpenBSD ifconfig(8). |
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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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- When .Fn arguments exceed one output line, all but the first |
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should be indented, see e.g. rpc(3); |
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reported by jmc@ on discuss@ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:48:33 +0100 |
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- It seems that .TP does not want TWOSPACE after the tag; |
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see bashbug(1); reported by naddy@ |
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- Header lines of excessive length: |
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Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c |
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and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY |
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found while talking to Chris Bennett |
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* performance issues |
* performance issues |
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Line 106 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa |
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Line 186 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa |
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- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) |
- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) |
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- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets |
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* structural issues |
* structural issues |
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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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