************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. * $Id: TODO,v 1.148 2012/11/19 22:30:58 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ ************************************************************************ * crashes ************************************************************************ None known right now. ************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ --- missing roff features ---------------------------------------------- - roff.c should treat \n(.H>23 and \n(.V>19 in the pod2man(1) preamble as true, see for example AUTHORS in MooseX::Getopt.3p reported by Andreas Voegele Tue, 22 Nov 2011 15:34:47 +0100 on ports@ - .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@ reported again by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600 also uses .ce (center N lines) and .fc (field control) - .ta (tab settings) occurs in ircbug(1) and probably gnats(1) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500 - \c (interrupted text) should prevent the line break even inside .Bd literal; that occurs in chat(8) - using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty wl@ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000 --- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing ultimate goal: restore .Xr and .Dv to lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3 lib/libc/gen/signal.3 lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 - edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g. .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1) from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 - \\ 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. - .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). - implement blank `Bl -column', such as .Bl -column .It foo Ta bar .El - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal flags defined for struct mdoc_macro - In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly ugly code from login.conf(5): .Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd .It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH .br Default search path. reported by Michal Mazurek via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059 - 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 - 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) - When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line. No idea how the logic for distinguishing in-line and block instances should be, needs investigation. uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200 uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200 --- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- - groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 also occur in freeciv-client(6) freeciv-server(6) freeciv-modpack(6) reported by bentley@ Tue, 30 Oct 2012 01:05:57 -0600 - -T[x]html doesn't stipulate non-collapsing spaces in literal mode --- 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 - allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line reported by Yuri Pankov, Wed 18 May 2011 11:34:59 CEST --- 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 - The \t escape sequence is the same as a literal tab, see for example the ASCII table in hexdump(1) where .Bl -column \&000_nu \&001_so \&002_st \&003_et \&004_eo .It \&000\ nul\t001\ soh\t002\ stx\t003\ etx\t004\ eot\t005\ enq produces 000 nul 001 soh 002 stx 003 etx 004 eot 005 enq and the example in oldrdist(1) - 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 ************************************************************************ - a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurrious start-with-whitespace printing of a newline - 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 - In .Bl -column, .It Em AuthenticationKey Length ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). reported again Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200 - 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 - .%T can have trailing punctuation. Currently, it puts the trailing punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope. That element should rather be outside its scope, such that the punctuation does not get underlines. This is not trivial to implement because .%T then needs some features of in_line_eoln() - slurp all arguments into one single text element - and one feature of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope. Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix". - Trailing punctuation after .%T triggers EOS spacing, at least outside .Rs (eek!). Simply setting ARGSFL_DELIM for .%T is not the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop. reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 - in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: gratuitous differences ************************************************************************ - .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) - .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one, not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5). reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059 reported again by sthen@ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC) - If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking. See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1). - If the first line after .It is .D1, do not assert a blank line in between, see for example tmux(1). reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000 - Trailing punctuation after .It should trigger EOS spacing. reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure. - .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). - When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered before measuring the width, for example .Bl -tag -width ".Dv message" in magic(5), located in src/usr.bin/file, is the same as -width 7n, not -width 11n. The same applies to .Bl -column column widths; reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar - 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 reported again by Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Sun, 18 Sep 2011 18:24:40 +0200 Also, we don't want to break the line within the argument of: .Fa "chtype tl" - 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 - trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape, see for example makes \fBdig \fR operate in batch mode in dig(1). ************************************************************************ * performance issues ************************************************************************ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are - improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance) - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) - the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets - instead of re-initialising the roff predefined-strings set before each parse, create a read-only version the first time and copy it ************************************************************************ * structural issues ************************************************************************ - We use the input line number at several places to distinguish same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage. - Find better ways to prevent endless loops in roff(7) macro and string expansion. - Finish cleanup of date handling. Decide which formats should be recognized where. Update both mdoc(7) and man(7) documentation. Triggered by Tim van der Molen Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:30:45 +0100