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 ************************************************************************
 ************************************************************************

-* Official mandoc TODO.  May not be quite up to date.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.28 2010/07/18 16:42:03 schwarze Exp $
+* Official mandoc TODO.
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.234 2017/02/18 11:53:33 schwarze Exp $

 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 

+Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
+
+ - loc = locality of the issue
+    *    single file issue, affects file only, or very few
+    **   single module issue, affects several files of one module
+    ***  cross-module issue, significantly impacts multiple modules
+         and may require substantial changes to internal interfaces
+ - exist = difficulty of the existing code in this area
+    *    affected code is straightforward and easy to read and change
+    **   affected code is somewhat complex, but once you understand
+         the design, not particularly difficult to understand
+    ***  affected code uses a special, exceptionally tricky design
+ - algo = difficulty of the new algorithm to be written
+    *    the required logic and code is straightforward
+    **   the required logic is somewhat complex and needs a careful design
+    ***  the required logic is exceptionally tricky,
+         maybe an approach to solve that is not even known yet
+ - size = the amount of code to be written or changed
+    *    a small number of lines (at most 100, usually much less)
+    **   a considerable amount of code (several dozen to a few hundred)
+    ***  a large amount of code (many hundreds, maybe thousands)
+ - imp = importance of the issue
+    *    mostly for completeness
+    **   would be nice to have
+    ***  issue causes considerable inconvenience
+
+Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations
+are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
+

 ************************************************************************
 * missing features
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 * 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).
+  loc ***  exist ***  algo **  size **  imp **  (parser reorg would help)
+
+- .fc (field control)
+  found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1)
+  loc **  exist ***  algo *  size *  imp *
+
+- .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+)
+  found by bentley@ in sbcl(1)  Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1)
+  when implementing this, also let .TH set it
+  reported by brad@  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500
+  loc ***  exist ***  algo ***  size **  imp *
+
+- .ta (tab settings)
+  #1 most important issue naddy@ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100
+  ircbug(1) gnats(1) reported by brad@  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500
+  also Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@  Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100
+  also posix2time(3) Carsten Kunze  Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:03:10 +0100
+  loc **  exist ***  algo **  size **  imp ***
+
+- .ti (temporary indent)
+  found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) [devel/libvstr] vstr(3)
+  found by bentley@ in nmh(1)  Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp ** (parser reorg helps a lot)
+
+- .while and .shift
+  found by jca@ in ratpoison(1)  Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size **  imp **
+
+- \h horizontal move
+  #2 most important issue naddy@  Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100
+  found in cclive(1) nasm(1) bogofilter(1) asciidoc/DocBook output
+  bentley@ on discuss@  Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:29:34 -0600
+  naddy@  Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:26:41 +0100
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp *** (parser reorg helps a lot)
+
+- \n+ and \n- numerical register increment and decrement
+  found by bentley@ in sbcl(1)  Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- \n(.$ macro argument count number register; ocserv(8) by autogen
+  found by sthen@  Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:03:01 +0000
+  loc *  exist **  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- \w'' improve width measurements
+  would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below
+  needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@  Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100
+  loc **  exist ***  algo ***  size *  imp ***
+
+- \\ in high-level macro arguments
+  Currently, \\ is expanded in two situations:
+  1) macro and string definition (roff.c setstrn())
+  2) macro argument parsing (mandoc.c mandoc_getarg())
+  For user defined macros, the second happens in time because of ROFF_REPARSE.
+  But for standard high-level macros, it only happens after entering the
+  high level parsers, which is too late because the code doesn't get
+  back to roff.c roff_res() from that point.  Because this requires
+  distinguishing requests, user-defined macros and standard macros
+  on the roff_res() level, it is hard to solve without the parser reorg.
+  Found by naddy@ in devel/cutils cobfusc(1)  Mon, 16 Feb 2015 19:10:52 +0100
+  loc ***  exist ***  algo ***  size **  imp *
+
+- using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty
+  wl@  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp *

 
 

-- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
-  see the OpenBSD mdoc_macro.c 1.47 commit message
+--- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------

 
 - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
   ultimate goal:
 
 - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
   ultimate goal:


@@ -20,92 +122,494 @@
   lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3
   lib/libc/gen/signal.3
   lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
   lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3
   lib/libc/gen/signal.3
   lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2

+  loc *  exist ***  algo ***  size *  imp **

 
 - 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
 
 - 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

+  loc *  exist ***  algo ***  size **  imp **

 
 

-- 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
-  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.
-
-- 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
+- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not
+  easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which
+  we don't have either.
+  Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered
+  to be centered as well.
+  loc ***  exist ***  algo **  size **  imp **  (parser reorg would help)

 
 

-- 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
+- .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).
+  loc ***  exist ***  algo **  size **  imp **  (parser reorg would help)

 
 - implement blank `Bl -column', such as
   .Bl -column
   .It foo Ta bar
   .El
 
 - implement blank `Bl -column', such as
   .Bl -column
   .It foo Ta bar
   .El

+  loc *  exist ***  algo ***  size *  imp *

 
 - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
   flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
 
 - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
   flags defined for struct mdoc_macro

+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- 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 <akfaew at jasminek dot net>
+  via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059
+  loc *  exist ***  algo **  size *  imp **

 
 

-- set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned
+- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal
+  text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -."

 
 

-- have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke
+- 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 ."

 
 

-- ignore horrendous m[] font colouring
-  reported by J.C. Roberts
+- check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1;
+  does it need its own constant?
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **

 
 - 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)
 
 - 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)

-  
+
+- support translated section names
+  e.g. x11/scrotwm scrotwm_es.1:21:2: error: NAME section must be first
+  that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish...
+  deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour
+  is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- 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
+  loc *  exist **  algo ***  size *  imp **
+
+--- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------
+
+- horizontal lines in the layout still consume data cells
+  and can be mixed with actual data on the same table line
+  synaptics(4) found by tedu@  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size **  imp ***
+
+- break long text into lines inside cells
+  net/lftp(1) from jirib via bentley@ Sep 13, 2016
+
+- layout l1 for a column of max text width 3 reduces the following
+  inter-column spacing for groff, but not for mandoc
+  net/lftp(1) from jirib via bentley@ Sep 13, 2016
+
+- the "w" layout option is ignored
+  synaptics(4) found by tedu@  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- the "s" layout column specifier is used for placement of data
+  into columns, but ignored during column width calculations
+  synaptics(4) found by tedu@  Mon, 17 Aug 2015 21:17:42 -0400
+  loc *  exist **  algo ***  size *  imp **
+
+- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code;
+  probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7)
+  use roff_node such that macro sets can mix;
+  informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100
+  loc ***  exist **  algo ***  size **  imp ***
+
+- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port,
+  they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size **  imp ***
+
+- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use
+  Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:31:48 +0100
+
+- use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders
+  in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output
+  suggested by bentley@  Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600
+  loc *  exist **  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+--- missing eqn features -----------------------------------------------
+
+- In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line.
+  Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015.
+  Suggested by Avi Weinstock.
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter.
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp *
+
+- The spacing characters `~', `^', and tab are currently ignored,
+  see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 2 section 4.
+  loc *  exist *  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- Mark and lineup are parsed and ignored,
+  see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15.
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size **  imp **
+
+--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------
+
+- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode
+  Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org  Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46
+  loc **  exist **  algo *  size *  imp *
+
+- change the default PAGER to more -Es and use the pager
+  even for apropos title line output; req by bapt@
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp ***
+
+- 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
+  loc ***  exist **  algo **  size **  imp *** (parser reorg helps)
+
+- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me  Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size ***  imp *
+
+- Vsevolod Stakhov (FreeBSD) needs either a markdown output formatter
+  for mandoc -mdoc or a markdown to mdoc converter because they
+  have to maintain manuals needed both in markdown and mdoc format.
+  Look at the libsoldout (markdown -> whatever)
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size **  imp **
+
+--- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------
+
+- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?
+  sobrado@  Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200
+
+- compare output to Heirloom roff, Solaris roff, and
+  http://repo.or.cz/w/neatroff.git  http://litcave.rudi.ir/
+
+- look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download
+  Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches
+  Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200
+  ported version: https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3
+  Carsten Kunze  Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:21:43 +0200
+
+- 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
+
+- look at pages generated from ronn(1) github.com/rtomayko/ronn
+  (based on markdown)
+
+- look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg
+  First impression is not that bad.
+
+- look at pages generated by pandoc; see
+  https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Man.hs
+  porting planned by kili@  Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:46:28 +0200
+
+- check compatibility with Plan9:
+  http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an
+  http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html
+  "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700
+
+- check compatibility with COHERENT troff:
+  http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php
+
+- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter
+  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c
+
+- check compatibility with
+  http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/contrib/mandoc/
+  https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc
+  Amitai Schlair  Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400
+
+- check features of the Slackware man.conf(5) format
+  Carsten Kunze  Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:24 +0100
+

 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: ugly output
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: ugly output
 ************************************************************************
 

-- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@
-  1) "\ " is non-breaking
-  2) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too
+- revisit empty in-line macros
+  look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ."
+  Carsten Kunze  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100
+  loc *** exist *** algo *** size * imp **
+
+- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurious
+  start-with-whitespace printing of a newline
+
+- In .Bl -column, .It a<tab>"b<tab>c"
+  shows the quotes in groff, but not in mandoc
+  loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp **
+
+- In .Bl -column,
+  .It Em Authentication<tab>Key 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
+  loc *  exist ***  algo ***  size **  imp ***

 
 - 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
 
 - 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

+  loc *  exist ***  algo ***  size *  imp **
+
+- .%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".
+  loc **  exist **  algo ***  size *  imp **
+
+- 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
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages
+  .Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ...
+  from kristaps@  Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200
+
+- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence
+  reminded by jmc@  Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
+  loc *  exist **  algo ***  size *  imp ***
+
+- a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace
+  and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)
+  loc **  exist *  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc
+  reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc...
+  reported by bentley@  Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600
+
+--- PostScript and PDF issues ------------------------------------------
+
+- PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal
+  Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf".
+  Search the text "Routing tables".
+  Also check what PostScript mode does when fixing this.
+  reported by juanfra@ Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:44:58 +0200
+  instructions from juanfra@  Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200
+    add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier
+    and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)).
+  re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
+
+- .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
+  reported by deraadt@ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:14:13 -0600 (MDT)
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp *
+
+- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014:
+  try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking
+  and render them with <a class="Xr" href=...>
+  https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15
+  loc *  exist *  algo **  size **  imp **
+
+- The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force
+  the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>.
+  Not yet sure how to fix that...
+  Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org:
+  http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1
+  loc *  exist *  algo **  size *  imp ***
+
+- generate <img> tags in HTML
+  idea from florian@  Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:26:28 +0000
+  may be possible to implement with .Lk img://something.png alt_text
+
+- check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml
+
+************************************************************************
+* formatting issues: gratuitous differences
+************************************************************************
+
+- .Fn reopens a new scope after punctuation in mandoc,
+  but closes its scope for good in groff.
+  Do we want to change mandoc or groff?
+  Steffen Nurpmeso  Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:34:59 +0100
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- .Lk formatting for long links with line breaks
+  Franco Fichtner  8 Oct 2013 00:33:42 +0200
+
+- In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after
+  the number, mandoc breaks the line.
+  mail to kristaps@  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- .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)
+  loc *  exist ***  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- 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).
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- 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
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- 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.
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **

 
 

-- .Pp before and after .Sh (and .Ss) produces a spurious blank line;
-  reported by jmc@  Thu, 15 Jul 2010 23:00:28 +0100
+- .Nx 1.0a
+  should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a",
+  see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- 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).
+  loc *  exist ***  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- 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
+  reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200
+  reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@
+  loc ***  exist ***  algo ***  size **  imp ***
+  An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts
+  with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring.
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp ***
+
+- 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.
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+- Sequences of multiple man(7) paragraphs (.PP, .IP) interspersed
+  with .ps and .nf/.fi produce execessive blank lines, see libJudy
+  and graphics/dcmtk.  The parser reorg may help with this.
+
+- 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).
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **

 
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************

-* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
+* warning issues

 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 

-- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
+- provide a way in mandoc(1) to warn about broken .Xr links;
+  probably cannot be on by default in -Tlint because it needs
+  to access the manpath and mandoc.db(3) after parsing.
+  asked for by jmc@ Fri, 4 Dec 2015 22:39:40 +0000
+
+- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros
+  Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros
+  Steffen Nurpmeso  Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100
+  Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff.
+  .Fn Po prints "Po()", .Ar Sh prints "file ..." and no "Sh".
+  Relatively hard because the relevant code is scattered
+  all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different.
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size **  imp **
+
+- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,
+  but just the overall format
+  loc **  exist **  algo ***  size **  imp **
+
+- integrate mdoclint into mandoc ("end-of-line whitespace" thread)
+  from jmc@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0100
+  from kristaps@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0200
+  from jmc@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:37 +0059
+  from kristaps@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:02:03 +0200
+  (mostly done, check what remains)
+
+- -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout
+  to tech@mdocml, naddy@  Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200
+  wait!  kristaps@  Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0200
+
+************************************************************************
+* documentation issues
+************************************************************************
+
+- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain
+  is this useful?
+
+- mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)?
+
+- Is all the content from http://www.std.com/obi/BSD/doc/usd/28.tbl/tbl
+  covered in tbl(7)?

 
 ************************************************************************
 * performance issues
 ************************************************************************
 
 
 ************************************************************************
 * performance issues
 ************************************************************************
 

-Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster.  These are 
+- Why are we using MAP_SHARED, not MAP_PRIVATE for mmap(2)?
+  from kristaps@  Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:51:36 +0200
+
+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 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
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 * structural issues
 ************************************************************************

+
+- POSIX says in the documentation of sysconf(3) that PATH_MAX
+  is allowed to be so large that it is a bad idea to use it
+  for sizing static buffers.  So use dynamic buffers throughout.
+  See the file test-PATH_MAX.c for details.
+  Found by Aaron M. Ucko in the GNU Hurd via Bdale Garbee,
+  https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624
+
+- 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
+
+- struct mparse refactoring
+  Steffen Nurpmeso  Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200
+
+************************************************************************
+* CGI issues
+************************************************************************
+
+ - Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering
+   output through libz.
+ - Sandbox (see OpenSSH).
+ - Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since.
+ - Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the
+   CGI: -static isn't supported.
+
+************************************************************************
+* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros
+************************************************************************
+
+- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time
+  tobimensch  Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100