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version 1.219, 2016/07/19 21:31:55

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

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- \\ in high-level macro arguments

Currently, \\ is expanded in two situations:

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

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

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

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

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

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

distinguishing requests, user-defined macros and standard macros

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

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

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

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

- horizontal lines in the layout still consume data cells

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

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

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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.

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

they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.

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

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- allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout

delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line

reported by Yuri Pankov, Wed 18 May 2011 11:34:59 CEST

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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.

Suggested by Avi Weinstock.

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

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

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- When makewhatis(8) encounters a FATAL parse error,

- change the default PAGER to more -Es and use the pager

it silently treats the file as formatted, which makes no sense

even for apropos title line output; req by bapt@

at all for paths like man1/foo.1 - and which also contradicts

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what the manual says at the end of the description.

The end result will be ENOENT for file names returned

by mansearch() in manpage.file.

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- makewhatis(8) for preformatted pages:

parse the section number from the header line

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- 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 -----------------------------------------------

- write a configure check for [[:<:]] support and provide some

fallback for whatis(1) when it doesn't work;

Svyatoslav Mishyn Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:07:10 +0200

- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?

sobrado@ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200

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http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html

"Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700

- check compatibility with COHERENT troff:

http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php

- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c

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see also matthew@ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:12 -0700

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- In -man -Thtml, .nf does not preserve indentation.

It should either convert blanks to  

or use <pre> rather than <div> (like .Bd -literal does).

Reported by afresh1@ 12 Apr 2016 14:35:45 -0700

- .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

reported by deraadt@ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:14:13 -0600 (MDT)

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- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014:

try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking

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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

- check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml

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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.

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

see for example

makes

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* portability

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- systems having UTF-8 but not en_US.UTF-8

call locale(1) from ./configure, select a UTF-8-locale,

and use that for test-wchar.c and term_ascii.c

to Markus Waldeck Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:55:37 +0200

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* warning issues

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

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

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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- 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,

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

and possibly change the wording of the warning message

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

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

- for system errors, use errno/strerror/warn/err

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* documentation issues

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

How does SQLITE_CONFIG_PAGECACHE actually work? Document it!

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

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* structural issues

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- Use libz directly instead of forking gunzip(1).

Suggested by bapt at FreeBSD among others.

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

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

with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage.

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- struct mparse refactoring

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

- Consider creating some views that will make the database more

readable from the sqlite3 shell. Consider using them to

abstract from the database structure, too.

suggested by espie@ Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:52:57 +0200

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* CGI issues

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