+************************************************************************
+* Official mandoc TODO.
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.42 2010/08/20 22:51:29 schwarze Exp $
+************************************************************************
+
************************************************************************
* 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
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
+ joerg@ has patches for this somewhere...
- 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
+
+- 'br\} doesn't correctly close scope.
+ Noted by joerg@, 28/7/2010.
************************************************************************
* 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
+- %A doesn't put an "and" before the final author name.
+
************************************************************************
* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
************************************************************************
-- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
+- .%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)
+
+- .It ${name Ns [ selector ] Ns }
+ should be "${name[selector]}" not "${name [selector]}"
+ This is parsed as
+ text("${name") text("[") Ns() text(selector)...
+ Opening punctuation should not fall out of .Ns.
+ see for example OpenBSD csh(1)
+
+- .%A should append the last author with " and " (if there are two)
+ or ", and " (if there are more), not ", "
+ see for example OpenBSD csh(1)
+
+- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet
+ is just "o\bo".
+ see for example OpenBSD ksh(1)
+
+- .No text No ) is "text )", not "text)"
+ see the terrible example
+ case word in [[(] pattern [| pattern] ... ) list ;; ] ... esac
+ in OpenBSD ksh(1)
+
+- .Sm should *not* produce as a blank line in .Bd -literal
+ see for example "Brace expansion" in 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).
+
+- In .Bd -unfilled, .Pp should produce one blank line, not two;
+ see the ccd.conf 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).
+
+- When .%T is used outside an .Rs context and with a trailing comma,
+ there is no point in rendering two commata,
+ see the first paragraph of the DESCRIPTION in OpenBSD mount_nfs(8).
+
+- When .%T is used outside an .Rs context and without a trailing comma,
+ no comma should be rendered at all,
+ see the first paragraph of the DESCRIPTION in OpenBSD exports(5).
+
+- Bogus .Pp before .Bl should not cause a double blank line,
+ see "The route utility provides the following simple commands:"
+ in OpenBSD route(8).
************************************************************************
* 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
- `Bf' font type
-
- 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
+************************************************************************
+
+- rendering frontend code can calculate widths only for plain strings,
+ not for strings containing escape sequences. For example, this
+ hinders calculation of the indent required for .Nm \&[ in text(1).
+ comments from kristaps@ Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:26:08 +0200
+
+- another example of the same problem:
+ .Bl -tag -width "\eD{format}XX" -compact
+ in OpenBSD ksh(1) gives the wrong width
+ because "\e" is one character in groff, two in mandoc
+
+- Now that `ds' is minimally supported, we can get rid of some
+ predefined strings. \*(C+ has already been thrown out. Track these
+ down and whack them. Look in e.g. gcc.1 for the top-level `ds'
+ invocations. These are reproduced across most crappy GNU manuals.
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