=================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/mandoc/TODO,v retrieving revision 1.35 retrieving revision 1.82 diff -u -p -r1.35 -r1.82 --- mandoc/TODO 2010/07/27 08:46:30 1.35 +++ mandoc/TODO 2011/01/23 15:35:10 1.82 @@ -1,16 +1,56 @@ ************************************************************************ -* Official mandoc TODO. May not be quite up to date. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.35 2010/07/27 08:46:30 kristaps Exp $ +* Official mandoc TODO. +* $Id: TODO,v 1.82 2011/01/23 15:35:10 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ +* parser bugs +************************************************************************ + +- .TP before .SH is still FATAL in man(7) + reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:54 -0500 + +- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between + a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g. + .if n \{ + .br \} + reported by ulrich spoerlein Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:39:50 +0200 + +************************************************************************ +* formatter bugs +************************************************************************ + +************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ -- explicit blocks with missing end macro should be implicitely closed - at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh - reminded by stsp@ in net/pptp pptp.8 Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200 +--- missing roff features ---------------------------------------------- +- .ad (adjust margins) + .ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left) + .ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right) + .ad c -- center text on line + .ad b -- adjust both margins (alias: .ad n) + .na -- temporarily disable adjustment without changing the mode + .ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode + Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf). + +- .it (line traps) occur in mysql(1), yasm_arch(7) + generated by DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.71.1 + reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:48:18 -0500 + +- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1) + reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 + +- xloadimage(1) wants .ti (temporary indent), rep by naddy@ + +- .ta (tab settings) occurs in ircbug(1) and probably gnats(1) + reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500 + +- pod2man expects `tr' to be implemented for \*(-- to work + +--- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- + - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message @@ -25,29 +65,17 @@ .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1) from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 -- auto-Bk in the SYNOPSIS - patch from kristaps@ Fri, 16 Jul 2010 14:51:24 +0200 - to be revisited after OpenBSD 4.8 tree unlock +- \\ is now implemented correctly + * when defining strings and macros using .ds and .de + * when parsing roff(7) and man(7) macro arguments + It does not yet work in mdoc(7) macro arguments + because libmdoc does not yet use mandoc_getarg(). + Also check what happens in plain text, it must be identical to \e. -- implement \\ - in plain text, identical to \e - as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character - We do not have macro definitions yet; if we implement them, - \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument, - and when using the macro, it must expand yet again. +- .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). -- look at bsd.lv tbl(1) - from kristaps@ Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200 - also look at the mail from Thomas Klausner wiz at NetBSD - on Wed, 2 Jun 2010 11:01:29 +0200 - joerg@ has patches for this somewhere... - -- look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1) - These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level - roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. - noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 - reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 - - implement blank `Bl -column', such as .Bl -column .It foo Ta bar @@ -56,6 +84,13 @@ - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal flags defined for struct mdoc_macro +- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal + text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -." + +- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf' + is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab." + but should give "ab ." + - set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke @@ -63,27 +98,118 @@ - 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) - + +--- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- + +- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after + .SM + .B something + should either just work or be a warning + reported by naddy@ + +- groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5) + reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 + +--- missing tbl features ----------------------------------------------- + +- implement basic non-parametric .de to support e.g. sox(1) + reported by naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200 + *** sox(1) still doesn't work, tbl(1) errors need investigation + +--- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- + +- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: + (1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content + (2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content + or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR + see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples + (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING + +- look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1) + These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level + roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. + For details, see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html + noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 + reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 + +- check compatibility with Plan9: + http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an + http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html + "Anthony J. Bentley" 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700 + ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: ugly output ************************************************************************ +- double quotes inside double quotes are escaped by doubling them + implement this in mdoc(7), too + so far, we only have it in roff(7) and man(7) + reminded by millert@ Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:29:52 -0500 + - perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@ 1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too +- In .Bl -column, + .It Em AuthenticationKey Length + ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, + see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). + - empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400 -- %A doesn't put an "and" before the final author name. +- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence + reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: gratuitious differences ************************************************************************ -- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some) +- .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named + or not (run a manual without `Nm blah' to see this). I'm not sure + that this exists in the wild, but it's still an error. +- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet + is just "o\bo". + see for example OpenBSD ksh(1) + +- The characters "|" and "\*(Ba" should never be bold, + not even in the middle of a word, e.g. ".Cm b\*(Bac" in + "mknod [-m mode] name b|c major minor" + in OpenBSD ksh(1) + +- A bogus .Pp between two .It must not produce a double blank line, + see between -R and -r in OpenBSD rm(1), before "update" in mount(8), + or in DIAGNOSTICS in init(8). + Also have `It' complain if `Pp' is invoked at certain times (not + -compact?). + +- .Nx 1.0a + should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a", + see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8). + +- 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). + +- The \& zero-width character counts as output. + That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp, + we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc. + +- When .Fn arguments exceed one output line, all but the first + should be indented, see e.g. rpc(3); + reported by jmc@ on discuss@ Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:48:33 +0100 + +- 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 + ************************************************************************ +* error reporting issues +************************************************************************ + +************************************************************************ * performance issues ************************************************************************ @@ -93,12 +219,12 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even fa - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) +- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets + ************************************************************************ * structural issues ************************************************************************ -- rendering frontend code can calculate widths only for plain strings, - not for strings containing escape sequences. For example, this - hinders calculation of the indent required for .Nm \&[ in text(1). - comments from kristaps@ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:26:08 +0200 - +- Find better ways to prevent endless loops + in roff(7) macro and string expansion. +