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version 1.241, 2017/07/20 11:58:31

version 1.282, 2019/01/04 03:39:01

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found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1)

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- .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+)

found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700

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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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- .while and .shift

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

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- \n+ and \n- numerical register increment and decrement

found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700

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- \w'' improve width measurements

would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below

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

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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 mdoc features ----------------------------------------------

- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing

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from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100

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- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not

easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which

we don't have either.

Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered

to be centered as well.

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- .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both

the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms

of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1).

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is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab."

but should give "ab ."

- check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1;

does it need its own constant?

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- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children

(e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1)

(mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified)

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uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200

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

- groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL

These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page.

The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too.

We should probably *not* add them to mandoc.

Just mentioning this here to keep track of the abuse.

Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200

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

- the "s" layout column specifier is used for placement of data

- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^

into columns, but ignored during column width calculations

pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200

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)

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- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use

Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:31:48 +0100

- use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders

in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output

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

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--- missing eqn features -----------------------------------------------

- In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line.

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surrounded by blanks, not when it is part of an unquoted word.

Also, check whether there are more such cases (e.g., +?).

reported by bentley@ 20 Jun 2017 02:04:29 -0600

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- Primes, opprime, and '

bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:14:20 -0600

--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------

- man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally

- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode

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

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--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------

- wrap Sh and Ss content into <div>

Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 21 Apr 2018 18:10:48 +0200

(Evaluate whether this is really useful and has no adverse

side effects before implementing; if it is possible,

it does seem cleaner.)

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- .IP wants vertical spacing before itself;

currently, it is formatted like .Bl -compact.

Fixing this requires getting rid of the "float"

in the CSS for .Bl-tag first.

Reminded by Pali Rohar 25 Oct 2018 10:10:35 +0200.

- format multiple subsequent .IP as a single list

rather than opening a new list for each item

Pali Rohar 25 Nov 2018 14:34:26 +0100

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- format ".IP *" etc. as <ul> rather than <dl>

https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/67

reminded by Pali Rohar 25 Nov 2018 14:34:26 +0100

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- .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

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Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure.

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- .Nx 1.0a

should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a",

see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).

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- In .Bl -tag, if a tag exceeds the right margin and must be continued

on the next line, it must be indented by -width, not width+1;

see "rule block|pass" in OpenBSD ifconfig(8).

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- When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered

before measuring the width, for example

.Bl -tag -width ".Dv message"

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* warning issues

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- When a man(1) command returns no result and there was an -S

argument, check the -S argument against the list of valid

architectures and say "Unknown architecture AAA" rather than

"No entry for NNN in the manual" if there is no match.

Requires moving the lists of valid architectures out of

mdoc_validate.c such that they can be used by main.c.

Discussed with jmc@ 10 Aug 2018 19:20:12 +0100.

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- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads

gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200

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- style message about macros inside .Bd -literal and .Dl, in particular

font changing macros like .Cm, .Ar, .Fa (from the mdoclint TODO)

- style message about mismatches between the section number in the

file name (if it is known) and the section number in .Dt

(from the mdoclint TODO)

- style message about NULL without .Dv (from the mdoclint TODO)

- style message about error constants without .Er (from the mdoclint TODO)

- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros

Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034

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- style message about violations of the convention

.An name Aq Mt localpart@domain in AUTHORS (from the mdoclint TODO)

- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros

Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100

Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff.

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all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.

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- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,

- style message about suspicious uses of - vs. \- vs. \(mi

but just the overall format

e.g. -1 is likely wrong (from the mdoclint TODO)

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- -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout

- warn about punctuation - e.g. ',' and ';' - at the beginning

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

of a text line, if it is likely intended to follow the preceding

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

output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a

macro line (from the mdoclint TODO)

- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories:

/usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part

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* documentation issues

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* performance issues

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

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

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

- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets

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- Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering

output through libz.

- Sandbox (see OpenSSH).

- Privilege separation (see OpenSSH).

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

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

CGI: -static isn't supported.

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* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros

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- .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages:

find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe:

allow .Dt vgafb 4 "macppc sparc64"

already shown as "Device Drivers Manual (macppc sparc64)"

for apropos, make that "vgafb(4) - macppc # sparc64" instead of "- all"

groff can be made to show multiple arches, too, but it is

tedious to do the string parsing in roff code...

jmc@ 23 Apr 2018 07:24:52 +0100 [man for vgafb(4)...]

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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

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