Don't let empty strings into the makewhatis keyword database.

[mandoc.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index bca6d03c8cc755b3b21529585d2f0d5c76e49af8..6cd2adf03f0337d72ed7e2838321772b0f0a7625 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ************************************************************************
 * Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.98 2011/03/30 00:02:40 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.113 2011/06/18 17:58:48 kristaps Exp $
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
@@ -10,16 +10,15 @@
 - .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
 ************************************************************************
 
+- tbl(7): Horizontal and vertical lines are formatted badly:
+  With the box option, there is too much white space at the end of cells.
+  Horizontal lines from "=" lines are a bit too long.
+  yuri dot pankov at gmail dot com  Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:45:26 +0400
+
 ************************************************************************
 * missing features
 ************************************************************************
@@ -51,11 +50,6 @@
 
 - \c (interrupted text) occurs in chat(8)
 
-- \f(CW (constant width font) occurs in rsyncd.conf(5).
-  I think we should treat unknown/unavailable fonts as \fR
-  such that switching back with \fP works correctly -
-  and doesn't revert the _previous_ \fP.
-
 --- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
 
 - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
@@ -91,6 +85,16 @@
 - 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 <akfaew at jasminek dot net>
+  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 -."
 
@@ -106,6 +110,14 @@
   (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)
@@ -117,6 +129,10 @@
   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:
@@ -183,7 +199,7 @@
   reminded by jmc@  Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
 
 ************************************************************************
-* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
+* formatting issues: gratuitous differences
 ************************************************************************
 
 - .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named
@@ -206,6 +222,10 @@
   Also have `It' complain if `Pp' is invoked at certain times (not
   -compact?).
 
+- .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
+
 - 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).
@@ -257,13 +277,6 @@
   should not produce two blank lines before the .SH,
   see for example named-checkconf(8).
 
-- In man(7), the sequence
-    regular text
-    .RS
-    .IP
-  should have a blank line between the text and the beginning of the
-  indented paragraph, see for example sudo(1).
-
 - In man(7), the sequence
     .SH HEADER
     <blank line>
@@ -273,20 +286,6 @@
   see for example rsync(1).
   Reported by naddy@  Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200
 
-- In man(7), the sequence
-    regular text
-    .PP
-    .RS
-    indented text
-  should produce one blank line between the regular and indented texts,
-  see for example rsync(1), and
-    .RE
-    <blank line>
-    .PP
-    .RS
-  should produce two,not one blank lines.
-  Reported by naddy@  Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200
-
 - In man(7), the sequence
     regular text
     .IP