+************************************************************************
+* Official mandoc TODO.
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.65 2010/11/29 13:04:31 kristaps Exp $
+************************************************************************
+
+************************************************************************
+* parser bugs
+************************************************************************
+
+- 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
+
+- .BI "string string " word punct in gettext(3)
+ add bogus line breaks (rep by naddy@)
+ committed; currently working on IP and TP?
+ and what about B and I?
+
************************************************************************
* missing features
************************************************************************
- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message
-- 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
-
- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
ultimate goal:
restore .Xr and .Dv to
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
\\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,
and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.
-- implement \s (physical font size)
- \sN - set to N
- \s+N - increment by N, 1 <= N <= 8
- \s-N - decrement by N, 1 <= N <= 8
- \s0 - restore previous size
- \s(nn \s+-(nn \s'+-nn' \s+-'nn' \s[+-nn] \s+-[nn] - disambiguate
- registers: .s .ps .sr .psr
- used by e.g. cu(1), tip(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
+- implement basic non-parametric .de to support e.g. sox(1)
+ .de SP
+ .if t .sp .5
+ .if n .sp
+ ..
+ .de EX
+ .SP
+ .nf
+ .ft CW
+ ..
+ .de EE
+ .ft R
+ .SP
+ .fi
+ ..
+ reported by naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200
+
+- implement parametric .de to support e.g.
+ /usr/xenocara/lib/libXxf86vm/manXF86VM.man
+ .de ZN
+ .ie t \fB\^\\$1\^\fR\\$2
+ .el \fI\^\\$1\^\fP\\$2
+ ..
+ .ZN -lXxf86vm
+
+- 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
+
+- port OpenBSD tbl integration bsd.lv, probably cleaning it up
- 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
- 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
-- 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
+
+- Have `Sh', `It', `Ss' and others complain if `Pp' is invoked prior to
+ close (in the post validation) or prior to open (pre). This noted by
+ jmc@ a thousand years ago.
+
+- xloadimage(1) wants .ti (temporary indent), rep by naddy@
+
+- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after
+ .SM
+ .B something
+ should either just work or be a warning
+ reported by naddy@
+
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* 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
-
-- 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
+
+- In .Bl -column,
+ .It Em Authentication<tab>Key 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
+- 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.
+
+- .%T should be quoted, not underlined, when .%J is also present,
+ to better distinguish the contents of .%T and .%J,
+ see for example OpenBSD cat(1)
+
+- 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).
+
+- .Bd -literal and .Bd -unfilled are *not* identical.
+ In -literal, tabs are 8 spaces.
+ In -unfilled, tabs are 5 spaces, just like in -filled and -ragged.
+ See the CCDF_* display in OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).
+
+- .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
+
+- It seems that .TP does not want TWOSPACE after the tag;
+ see bashbug(1); reported by naddy@
+
+- 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
************************************************************************
* 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
-
- 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
+
+************************************************************************
+* structural issues
+************************************************************************
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