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 * Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.230 2017/02/03 17:59:22 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.234 2017/02/18 11:53:33 schwarze Exp $
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 Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
 - 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.
+  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,
@@ -385,10 +385,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
   and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1)
   loc **  exist *  algo **  size *  imp **
 
-- rendering of double quotes in -Tascii is ugly in both groff and mandoc
-  to improve, both would have to be changed
-  Carsten Kunze  Fri, 12 Dec 2014 14:27:56 +0100
-
 - 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
@@ -427,9 +423,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
   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
@@ -493,6 +486,7 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
   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.
@@ -503,12 +497,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
   we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc.
   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
-  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.
@@ -542,9 +530,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
   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 **
@@ -564,13 +549,6 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
 * documentation issues
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-- 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?
 
@@ -590,14 +568,8 @@ 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 characters (not as important)
-
 - 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 **
-
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 * structural issues
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@@ -632,9 +604,6 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster.  These are
    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.