=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.252 retrieving revision 1.282 diff -u -p -r1.252 -r1.282 --- mandoc/TODO 2018/04/24 13:30:59 1.252 +++ mandoc/TODO 2019/01/04 03:39:01 1.282 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.252 2018/04/24 13:30:59 schwarze Exp $ +* $Id: TODO,v 1.282 2019/01/04 03:39:01 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows: @@ -57,10 +57,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp * -- .while and .shift - found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200 - loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** - - \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 @@ -79,12 +75,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. Found by naddy@ in devel/cutils cobfusc(1) Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0100 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp * -- check for missing roff escape sequences, implement those that are - trivial even if not usually appearing in manual pages, gracefully - ignore the non-trivial ones, document what they are supposed to do - and what mandoc does instead - loc * exist ** algo * size * imp * - --- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing @@ -100,13 +90,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp ** -- .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. - loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) - - .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). @@ -140,10 +123,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. 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? - loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** - - 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) @@ -168,6 +147,7 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. - 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 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200 @@ -175,10 +155,9 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- missing tbl features ----------------------------------------------- -- 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 - loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ** +- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^ + pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 + loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp * - support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code; probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7) @@ -193,11 +172,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. - 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 - loc * exist ** algo * size * imp ** - --- missing eqn features ----------------------------------------------- - In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line. @@ -229,6 +203,8 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- 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 loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp * @@ -379,19 +355,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- HTML issues -------------------------------------------------------- -- replace "li.It-dash:before" with "ul.Bl-dash > li:before" - and get rid of the class="It-dash" in the
  • , - and similarly for other blocks - John Gardner 23 Apr 2018 13:17:16 +1000 - loc ** exist ** algo * size ** imp ** - -- duplicate names generate duplicate href="#..." anchor attributes - possibly use "#..._" suffixes? - Jakub Klinkovsky 3 Oct 2017 21:23:36 +0200 - see also the thread: gre(4): Rename duplicate sections - up to 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200 - loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** - - wrap Sh and Ss content into
    Laura Morales 21 Apr 2018 18:10:48 +0200 (Evaluate whether this is really useful and has no adverse @@ -399,8 +362,20 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. it does seem cleaner.) loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *** +- .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 + loc * exist ** algo * size * imp *** + - format ".IP *" etc. as
      rather than
      https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/67 + reminded by Pali Rohar 25 Nov 2018 14:34:26 +0100 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp *** - .Bf at the beginning of a paragraph inserts a bogus 1ex horizontal @@ -499,6 +474,15 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * warning issues ************************************************************************ +- 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. + loc ** exist * algo * size * imp ** + - warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** @@ -537,10 +521,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a macro line (from the mdoclint TODO) -- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence, - but just the overall format - loc ** exist ** algo *** size ** imp ** +- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories: + /usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part + ************************************************************************ * documentation issues ************************************************************************ @@ -594,7 +578,7 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. - 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.