=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.250 retrieving revision 1.260 diff -u -p -r1.250 -r1.260 --- mandoc/TODO 2018/04/10 00:52:30 1.250 +++ mandoc/TODO 2018/08/10 20:40:45 1.260 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.250 2018/04/10 00:52:30 schwarze Exp $ +* $Id: TODO,v 1.260 2018/08/10 20:40:45 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows: @@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- missing roff features ---------------------------------------------- +- \*(.T prints the device being used, + see groff_char(7) for an example + +- \[charNN], \[charNNN] prints a single-byte codepoint + see groff_char(7) for examples + - .ad (adjust margins) .ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left) .ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right) @@ -79,6 +85,12 @@ 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 @@ -134,10 +146,6 @@ 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) @@ -158,6 +166,25 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200 loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ** +--- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- + +- .SY and .YS, + used by many groff manual pages + +- preserve punctuation following .ME, + see ditroff(7) for an example + +- .TQ tagged paragraph continuation, + see groff_diff(7) for examples + +- 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 + loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp * + --- missing tbl features ----------------------------------------------- - the "s" layout column specifier is used for placement of data @@ -165,6 +192,13 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. 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 .ds requests inside tbl(7) code, + see tbl(1) for an example + - 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; @@ -183,6 +217,18 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. suggested by bentley@ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600 loc * exist ** algo * size * imp ** +- implement horizontal and vertical alignment in HTML output + pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** + +- implement cell spanning in HTML output + pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 + loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** + +- implement table borders in HTML output + pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 + loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** + --- missing eqn features ----------------------------------------------- - In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line. @@ -207,12 +253,15 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. 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 + loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp * - 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 loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp * @@ -286,6 +335,9 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * formatting issues: ugly output ************************************************************************ +- .UR can nest inside .TP, + see roff(7) for examples + - revisit empty in-line macros look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ." Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100 @@ -363,9 +415,12 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- HTML issues -------------------------------------------------------- -- duplicate names generate duplicate href="#..." attributes - possibly use "#..._" suffixes? - Jakub Klinkovsky 3 Oct 2017 21:23:36 +0200 +- 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 + side effects before implementing; if it is possible, + it does seem cleaner.) + loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *** - format ".IP *" etc. as
    rather than
    https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/67 @@ -467,6 +522,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * warning issues ************************************************************************ +- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads + gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** + - style message about macros inside .Bd -literal and .Dl, in particular font changing macros like .Cm, .Ar, .Fa (from the mdoclint TODO) @@ -505,6 +564,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. 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 ************************************************************************ @@ -558,7 +621,7 @@ 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. @@ -566,6 +629,16 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. ************************************************************************ * to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros ************************************************************************ + +- .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)...] + loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *** - use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100