=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.295 retrieving revision 1.306 diff -u -p -r1.295 -r1.306 --- mandoc/TODO 2019/06/11 16:04:36 1.295 +++ mandoc/TODO 2020/09/07 14:18:49 1.306 @@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.295 2019/06/11 16:04:36 schwarze Exp $ +* $Id: TODO,v 1.306 2020/09/07 14:18:49 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows: @@ -33,6 +33,21 @@ Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, the are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. ************************************************************************ +* assertion failures +************************************************************************ + +- .if n .ce in the middle of .TS data + afl case f1/id:000103,sig:06,src:009024+009105,op:splice,rep:2 (jes@) + While roff_parseln() prevents .ce and similar requests in the middle + of a tbl, the guard is no longer effective when the .ce is wrapped + in a roff block, for example a conditional. The resulting assertion + has never been seen in any real-world manual page. + This is too dangerous to fix before release because it requires + reorganizing the very delicate internals of roff_parseln(), + which risks causing more severe bugs. + loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp * + +************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ @@ -83,8 +98,31 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp * +- mandoc replaces all ASCII control characters except tab and line feed + with '?' during input. It would be better to replace them with + Unicode escapes in preconv_encode() or somewhere in the vicinity, + such that the already existing better replacement strings show + up in the output. Emulating groff is not desirable: groff replaces + 0x00, 0x0b, and 0x0d to 0x1f with the empty string (bad because + that's easy to overlook for the document author), 0x01 with '.' + (very confusing), and passes through 0x02 to 0x08, 0x0c, and 0x7f + raw (bad because that is insecure output). Remember that 0x07 may + need special handling because it is sometimes used for certain + delimiters, so it may need handling *after* roff.c rather than before. + reminded by John Gardner 16 Jun 2020 14:26:28 +1000 + Actually, more ASCII control characters than just 0x07 may need + later handling because they can for example be used in macro names. + So they may need handling after roff(7) processing. + pointed out by John Gardner 23 Jun 2020 18:28:08 +1000 + more info from John Gardner 29 Jun 2020 19:54:04 +1000 + loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp * + --- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- +- .Sh and .Ss should be parsed and partially callable, see groff_mdoc(7) + reed at reedmedia dot net Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:13:07 -0600 + loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp * + - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing ultimate goal: restore .Xr and .Dv to @@ -217,6 +255,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- +- -T man does not handle eqn(7) and tbl(7) + Stephen Gregoratto 16 Feb 2020 01:28:07 +1100 + loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp ** + - man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally - italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode @@ -374,6 +416,11 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- HTML issues -------------------------------------------------------- +- get rid of the last handful of style= attributes such that + Content-Security-Policy: can be enabled without unsafe-inline + suggested by bentley@ Nov 10, 2019 at 06:02:49AM -0700 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** + - .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 @@ -386,6 +433,11 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15 loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** +- space characters can end up in href= attributes, for example coming + from the first .Xr argument (where they make no sense, but still); + does this affect other characters, other source macros...? + Jackson Pauls 29 Aug 2017 16:56:27 +0100 + - The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force the width of the to the max-width given for . Not yet sure how to fix that... @@ -553,6 +605,9 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * CGI issues ************************************************************************ + - Inspect httpd(8) logs on man.openbsd.org and consider + whether logging can be improved, where bad syntax comes from, + and what needs to be done to get rid of COMPAT_OLDURI. - Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering output through libz. - Privilege separation (see OpenSSH). @@ -561,6 +616,15 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. ************************************************************************ * to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros ************************************************************************ + +- delete OS release verification from .Dx, .Fx, .Nx, .Ox etc. + https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629161 + also Branden Robinson 18 Dec 2019 00:59:52 +1100 + +- Can the distinction between .Vt and .Va be made stricter, + recommending .Vt extern char * Ns Va optarg ; ? + What about the block macro properties of .Vt in the SYNOPSIS? + zeurkous 25 Dec 2019 08:48:36 +0100 - .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages: find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe: