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

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- .ta (tab settings)

#1 most important issue naddy@ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100

ircbug(1) gnats(1) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500

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

also posix2time(3) Carsten Kunze Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:03:10 +0100

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- .ti (temporary indent)

found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) [devel/libvstr] vstr(3)

found by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600

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- .while and .shift

found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200

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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.

informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100

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

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

- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?

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and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)

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- rendering of double quotes in -Tascii is ugly in both groff and mandoc

to improve, both would have to be changed

Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:27:56 +0100

- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc

reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc...

reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600

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http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1

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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

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The same applies to .Bl -column column widths;

reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar

reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200

reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@

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An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts

with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring.

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we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc.

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- Header lines of excessive length:

Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c

and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY

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.

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all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.

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- warn about "new sentence, new line"

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- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,

but just the overall format

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* documentation issues

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- mention hyphenation rules:

breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args)

proper hyphenation is unimplemented

- talk about spacing around delimiters

to jmc@, kristaps@ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200

- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain

is this useful?

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Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are

- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)

- 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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output through libz.

- Sandbox (see OpenSSH).

- Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since.

- Allow for cgi.h to be overridden by CGI environment variables.

Otherwise, binary distributions will inherit the compile-time

behaviour, which is not optimal.

- Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the

CGI: -static isn't supported.

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- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time

tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100

- apostrophe (39), circumflex (94), grave (96), tilde (126)

in manuals: \(aq, \(ha, \`, \(ti

Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.

bentley@ 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 -0600

Do we need to fix existing manuals?

Do we need to fix the definition of the mdoc(7) language?

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