Show the flags MDOC_DELIMO, MDOC_DELIMC, MDOC_EOS, and MAN_EOS.

[mandoc.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index 6af68af19f2bce07a5c73961240e8dee09d48245..c17f681213120b6b7fa9e309aecaf537176922cd 100644 (file)
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,29 +1,45 @@
 ************************************************************************
 * Official mandoc TODO.
 ************************************************************************
 * Official mandoc TODO.

-* $Id: TODO,v 1.102 2011/04/16 23:00:45 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.213 2015/08/29 15:10:28 schwarze Exp $

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

-************************************************************************
-* parser bugs
-************************************************************************
-
-- .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
+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.

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

-* formatter bugs
+* crashes

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

-- 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
+- The abort() in bufcat(), html.c, can be triggered via buffmt_includes()
+  by running -Thtml -Oincludes on a file containing a long .In argument.
+  Fixing this will probably require reworking the whole bufcat() concept.
+  loc **  exist *  algo *  size **  imp **

 
 ************************************************************************
 * missing features
 
 ************************************************************************
 * missing features


@@ -39,62 +55,110 @@
   .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).
   .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 *

 
 

-- .it (line traps) occur in mysql(1), yasm_arch(7)
-  generated by DocBook XSL Stylesheets v1.71.1 <http://docbook.sf.net/>
-  reported by brad@  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:48:18 -0500
+- .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)
 
 - .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
   reported by brad@  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500

-
-- xloadimage(1) wants .ti (temporary indent), rep by naddy@
-
-- .ta (tab settings) occurs in ircbug(1) and probably gnats(1)
-  reported by brad@  Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500
-
-- pod2man expects `tr' to be implemented for \*(-- to work
-
-- \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.
+  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 *

 
 --- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
 
 
 --- 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
 - .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

+  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 **

 
 

-- \\ 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 -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)

 
 - .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).
 
 - .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
 
 - 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


@@ -105,6 +169,7 @@
     Default search path.
   reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net>
   via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059
     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 **

 
 - 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, punctuation is handled like normal
   text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -."


@@ -113,44 +178,130 @@
   is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab."
   but should give "ab ."
 
   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
+- 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)
 

---- missing man features -----------------------------------------------
+- 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 **

 
 

-- .RS/.RE can be nested, see e.g. the x11/fluxbox manuals
-  noticed by dcoppa@  Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:58:14PM +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
+- -T[x]html doesn't stipulate non-collapsing spaces in literal mode

 
 --- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------
 
 
 --- 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
+- 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 ***
+
+- 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.
+  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 ***
+
+- 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 ----------------------------------------------
 
 
 --- 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 ***
+
+- makewhatis(8) for preformatted pages:
+  parse the section number from the header line
+  and compare to the section number from the directory name
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- Does makewhatis(8) detect missing NAME sections, missing names,
+  and missing descriptions in all the file formats?
+  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
 - 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

 
 

-- 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)
+- 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

 
 - 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
 
 - 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


@@ -159,34 +310,59 @@
   noted by stsp@  Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200
   reminded by nicm@  Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100
 
   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 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
+

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

-- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurrious
-  start-with-whitespace printing of a newline
+- 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 **

 
 

-- 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
+- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurious
+  start-with-whitespace printing of a newline

 
 

-- perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@
-  1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too
+- 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).
 
 - 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.
 
 - .%T can have trailing punctuation.  Currently, it puts the trailing
   punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope.


@@ -196,153 +372,242 @@
   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".
   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
 
 - 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
+
+--- 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 (?)).
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
+
+- <dl><dt><dd> formatting is ugly
+  hints are easy to find on the web, e.g.
+  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713048/
+  see also matthew@  Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:12 -0700
+  loc *  exist *  algo **  size *  imp ***
+
+- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014:
+  try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking
+
+- 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 ***
+
+- consider whether <var> can be used for Ar Dv Er Ev Fa Va.
+  from bentley@  Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:17:55 -0600
+
+- 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: gratuitious differences
+* 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.
+- .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 **

 
 

-- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet
-  is just "o\bo".
-  see for example OpenBSD ksh(1)
+- 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 **

 
 

-- 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), or before "is always true" in ksh(1).
-  The same happens with .Pp just before .El, see bgpd.conf(5).
-  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
+  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).
 
 - 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
 
 - 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 **

 
 - .Nx 1.0a
   should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a",
   see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8).
 
 - .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).
 
 - 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.
 
 - 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
+  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.
 
 - 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
-
-- .Ns should work when called at the end of an input line, see
-  the following code in vi(1):
-    .It Xo
-    .Op Ar line
-    .Cm a Ns Op Cm ppend Ns
-    .Op Cm !\&
-    .Xc
-    The input text is appended after the specified line.
+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **

 
 - 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
 
 - 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

+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp *

 
 

-- In man(7), the sequence
-    .HP
-    one line of regular text
-    .SH
-  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>
-    .PP
-    regular text
-  should not produce any blank lines between the header and the text,
-  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
-    .IP "tag"
-    indented text
-  should produce one, not four blank lines between the regular text
-  and the tag, see for example rsync(1).
-  Likewise,
-    regular text
-    .IP
-    indented text
-  should produce one, not two blank lines in between, and
-    regular text
-    .IP
-    .RS
-    .IP tag
-    indented text
-  should produce one, not three blank lines.
-  Reported by naddy@  Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200
-
-- At least sometimes, .sp is ignored right after .SH; see named.conf(5).
+- 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,
 
 - trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape,

-  see for example 
+  see for example

     makes
     \fBdig \fR
     operate in batch mode
   in dig(1).
     makes
     \fBdig \fR
     operate in batch mode
   in dig(1).

+  loc **  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+
+************************************************************************
+* portability
+************************************************************************
+
+- word boundaries in regular expressions for whatis(1)
+  set up config tests to use [[:<:]], \<, or nothing
+  Svyatoslav Mishyn  Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:07:10 +0200
+  reminded by Peter Bray Fri, 03 Apr 2015 23:02:16 +1100
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp *
+
+- systems having UTF-8 but not en_US.UTF-8
+  call locale(1) from ./configure, select a UTF-8-locale,
+  and use that for test-wchar.c and term_ascii.c
+  to Markus Waldeck  Sat, 18 Jul 2015 01:55:37 +0200
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp *
+
+************************************************************************
+* warning issues
+************************************************************************
+
+- Report errors in -O suboption parsing.
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros
+  Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034
+  loc *  exist *  algo *  size *  imp **
+
+- check that MANDOCERR_BADTAB is thrown in the right cases,
+  i.e. when finding a literal tab character in fill mode,
+  and possibly change the wording of the warning message
+  to refer to fill mode, not literal mode
+  See the mail from Werner LEMBERG on the groff list,
+  Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:54:42 +0100 (CET)
+  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 **
+
+- warn about "new sentence, new line"
+  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
+
+- for system errors, use errno/strerror/warn/err

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

-* error reporting issues
+* documentation issues

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

+- mention hyphenation rules:
+  breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args)
+  proper hyphenation is unimplemented
+
+- talk about spacing around delimiters
+  to jmc@, kristaps@  Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200
+
+- 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)?
+  How does SQLITE_CONFIG_PAGECACHE actually work?  Document it!
+  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)
 


@@ -350,14 +615,54 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster.  These are
 
 - the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets
 
 
 - 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
+  loc *  exist **  algo **  size *  imp **
+

 ************************************************************************
 * structural issues
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 * structural issues
 ************************************************************************
 

+- Use libz directly instead of forking gunzip(1).
+  Suggested by bapt at FreeBSD among others.
+
+- 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.
 - 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
 - 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
+
+- Consider creating some views that will make the database more
+  readable from the sqlite3 shell.  Consider using them to
+  abstract from the database structure, too.
+  suggested by espie@  Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:52:57 +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.
+ - Allow for cgi.h to be overridden by CGI environment variables.
+   Otherwise, binary distributions will inherit the compile-time
+   behaviour, which is not optimal.
+ - 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