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* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.234 2017/02/18 11:53:33 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.239 2017/07/14 12:48:37 schwarze Exp $
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Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500
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-- .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
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-
-- .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
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see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15.
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+- GNU eqn converts some operators to special characters, for example,
+ input HYPHEN-MINUS becomes output \(mi, unless it is part of a
+ quoted word. mandoc(1) only does this when the operator is
+ surrounded by blanks, not when it is part of an unquoted word.
+ Also, check whether there are more such cases (e.g., +?).
+ reported by bentley@ 20 Jun 2017 02:04:29 -0600
+
+- Primes, opprime, and '
+ bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:14:20 -0600
+
--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------
- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode
- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)
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-- 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)
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-
--- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------
- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?
.Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ...
from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200
+- implicit whitespace around inline equations
+ example code: where '$times$' denotes matrix multiplication
+ must not have an HTML line break, nor a blank, before <math>
+ partial solution: html.c {"math", HTML_NLINSIDE | HTML_INDENT},
+ bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:00:59 -0600
+
- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence
reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
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Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
-- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance)
-
- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets
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- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time
tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100
+
+- apostrophe (39), circumflex (94), grave (96), tilde (126)
+ in manuals: \(aq, \(ha, \`, \(ti
+ Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages.
+ bentley@ 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 -0600
+ Do we need to fix existing manuals?
+ Do we need to fix the definition of the mdoc(7) language?