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Diff for /mandoc/TODO between version 1.110 and 1.117

version 1.110, 2011/06/12 12:13:27

version 1.117, 2011/07/03 22:57:32

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* parser bugs

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- ".\}" on its own line gets translated to bare ".\&"

which forces pset() into man(7)

and then triggers an unknown macro error

reported by naddy@ Sun, 3 Jul 2011 21:52:24 +0200

- .TP before .SH is still FATAL in man(7)

reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:54 -0500

- Assertion failure on src/share/man/man1/man1.atari/edahdi.1 rev 1.9

in the NetBSD.

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* formatter bugs

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Line 123

Line 125

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

- .RS/.RE can be nested, see e.g. the x11/fluxbox manuals

noticed by dcoppa@ Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:58:14PM +0200:

also affects p5-Net-SFTP-Foreign-1.65

as reported by gsoares@ Wed, 18 May 2011 09:59:06 -0300

- groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5)

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

Line 286

Line 283

see for example named-checkconf(8).

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.RS

.IP

should have a blank line between the text and the beginning of the

indented paragraph, see for example sudo(1).

- In man(7), the sequence

.SH HEADER

.PP

Line 303

Line 293

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.PP

.RS

indented text

should produce one blank line between the regular and indented texts,

see for example rsync(1), and

.RE

.PP

.RS

should produce two,not one blank lines.

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- In man(7), the sequence

regular text

.IP

.IP "tag"

indented text

Line 335

Line 311

should produce one, not three blank lines.

Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200

- At least sometimes, .sp is ignored right after .SH; see named.conf(5).

- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape,

see for example

makes

Line 359 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

Line 333 Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa

- 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

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