+************************************************************************
+* Official mandoc TODO. May not be quite up to date.
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.36 2010/08/07 17:52:36 kristaps Exp $
+************************************************************************
+
************************************************************************
* missing features
************************************************************************
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
-- we need real .ds; for example, terminfo.3 has
- .ds n 5
- and then later
- \fBterminfo\fR(\*n)
- reported orally by halex@ during c2k10
-
-- \*(Pu is not implemented, but used in mdoc.samples
- implementing .ds would solve this as well
- reminded by jmc@, last on Sun, 27 Jun 2010 15:29:18 +0100
+- 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:
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
+
+- 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
+
- implement \\
in plain text, identical to \e
as a macro argument, identical to \ i.e. escaping the next character
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
- have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke
-- ignore horrendous m[] font colouring
- reported by J.C. Roberts
+- 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)
+
+- allow `Qq', `Dq', `Sq', `Aq', `Bq' to have 0 arguments
+ noted by Alex Kozlov 08/06/10 23:05
************************************************************************
* formatting issues: ugly output
************************************************************************
-- outside list context, text following .Sm off
- seems to follow without a blank (TERM_NOBLANK reset late?) e.g.
- .Sm off
- .Xo
- .Op Ar bind_address No /
- .Ar port
- .Xc
- .Sm on
- or by enclosing
- reported by jmc Tue, 13 Apr 2010 08:48:14 +0100
-
-- URGENT, this is making many kernel manuals look bad:
- .Ft/.Fn should MAYBE behave in custom section like in SYNOPSIS?
- autoconf.9:
- .Sh DIRECT CONFIGURATION
- .nr nS 1
- .Ft "struct device *"
- .Fn config_found_sm "struct device *parent"
- groff:
- DIRECT CONFIGURATION
- struct device *
- config_found_sm(struct device *parent, ...
- reported by sthen Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:51 +0100
-
-- indentation got lost in SYNOPSIS, e.g.
- SYNOPSIS
- date [-ajnu] [-d dst] [-r seconds] [-t minutes_west] [+format]
- - [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
- + [[[[[[cc]yy]mm]dd]HH]MM[.SS]]
- reminded by Ludo Smissaert Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200
+- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@
+ 1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too
- 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
-************************************************************************
-* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
-************************************************************************
-
-- FIXED OpenBSD mdoc.c 1.52 schwarze 16.5.10
- lines containing blank characters, and nothing else,
- in literal context (.Bd -literal):
- groff outputs just blank lines "\n"
- mandoc outputs blanks to the left margin,
- then the number of balnks minus one
- NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
-
+- %A doesn't put an "and" before the final author name.
************************************************************************
-* parser errors without any effect on formatting
+* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
************************************************************************
-- OpenBSD::PackageName(3p) has "if (block) 90:1" in the parse tree
+- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
************************************************************************
* performance issues
Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
-- improve caching mechanism to handle other per-element arguments so
- that they need not be recalculated between front- and back-ends (also
- reduces code size and complexity):
- `Bl -column' pointer
- `Bf' font type
-
- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)
- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
+
+************************************************************************
+* 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
+
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