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* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.302 2020/04/26 21:41:07 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.317 2021/09/06 14:32:07 schwarze Exp $
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Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations
are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
+************************************************************************
+* assertion failures
+************************************************************************
+
+- .if n .ce in the middle of .TS data
+ afl case f1/id:000103,sig:06,src:009024+009105,op:splice,rep:2 (jes@)
+ While roff_parseln() prevents .ce and similar requests in the middle
+ of a tbl, the guard is no longer effective when the .ce is wrapped
+ in a roff block, for example a conditional. The resulting assertion
+ has never been seen in any real-world manual page.
+ This is too dangerous to fix before release because it requires
+ reorganizing the very delicate internals of roff_parseln(),
+ which risks causing more severe bugs.
+ loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp *
+
+
+************************************************************************
+* bugs: invalid output
+************************************************************************
+
+- wrong number of layout columns in tbl(7) code generated by -T man
+ https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?57720
+ The reason likely is that tbl(7) does not support the -Bl -column
+ feature of not explicitly specifying the last table column.
+ loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp ***
+
+
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* missing features
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Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200
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+- mandoc replaces all ASCII control characters except tab and line feed
+ with '?' during input. It would be better to replace them with
+ Unicode escapes in preconv_encode() or somewhere in the vicinity,
+ such that the already existing better replacement strings show
+ up in the output. Emulating groff is not desirable: groff replaces
+ 0x00, 0x0b, and 0x0d to 0x1f with the empty string (bad because
+ that's easy to overlook for the document author), 0x01 with '.'
+ (very confusing), and passes through 0x02 to 0x08, 0x0c, and 0x7f
+ raw (bad because that is insecure output). Remember that 0x07 may
+ need special handling because it is sometimes used for certain
+ delimiters, so it may need handling *after* roff.c rather than before.
+ reminded by John Gardner 16 Jun 2020 14:26:28 +1000
+ Actually, more ASCII control characters than just 0x07 may need
+ later handling because they can for example be used in macro names.
+ So they may need handling after roff(7) processing.
+ pointed out by John Gardner 23 Jun 2020 18:28:08 +1000
+ more info from John Gardner 29 Jun 2020 19:54:04 +1000
+ loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *
+
+- many missing features used in old groff_char(7),
+ some can possibly be supported
+ kamil at netbsd 12 Nov 2020 17:27:09 +0100 + reply
+
+- \s with arbitrary arg delimiters as already supported for other escapes
+ found following jmc@'s mail 28 Apr 2021 18:31:41 +0100
+ loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
+
--- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
- .Sh and .Ss should be parsed and partially callable, see groff_mdoc(7)
--- missing man features -----------------------------------------------
+- MANWIDTH
+ Markus Waldeck <waldeck at gmx dot de> 9 Jun 2015 05:49:56 +0200
+ Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 26 Apr 2018 08:15:55 +0200
+ Kamil Rytarowski <kamil at netbsd> 13 Nov 2020 00:19:36 +0100
+ patch from Kamil 13 Nov 2020 22:37:07 +0100
+ loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
+
- groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL
These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page.
The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too.
--- missing tbl features -----------------------------------------------
+- fully support the "nospaces" option;
+ Oliver Corff mentioned usefulness 20 Jun 2021 09:41:06 +0200
+ loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
+
- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^
pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200
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--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------
+- let makewhatis(8) follow symbolic links to dirs below READ_ALLOWED_PATH
+ this may be feasible using fts_set(FTS_FOLLOW)
+ mail to sternenseemann 19 Aug 2021 19:11:50 +0200
+ loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
+
- -T man does not handle eqn(7) and tbl(7)
Stephen Gregoratto 16 Feb 2020 01:28:07 +1100
+ also https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=901636
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- man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally
- check features of the Slackware man.conf(5) format
Carsten Kunze Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:24 +0100
+- look at http://www.snake.net/software/troffcvt/ (troff to HTML)
+ mentioned by Oliver Corff 22 Jan 2021 01:36:49 +0100
+
+
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* formatting issues: ugly output
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add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier
and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)).
re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100
- loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp **
+ loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **
--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
+- make the HTML scaffolding customozable with -O skip=...
+ mail to Oliver Corff 3 Jun 2021 17:28:02 +0200
+
+- .Bd -unfilled should not use monospaced font
+ anton@ 4 Mar 2021 08:19:35 +0100
+ loc ** exist * algo * size * imp **
+
+- HTML formatting of .nf should avoid <br/>
+ and not close and re-open <pre> on .P
+ my mail to ports@ 27 Jun 2021 16:09:20 +0200
+ loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp **
+
- get rid of the last handful of style= attributes such that
Content-Security-Policy: can be enabled without unsafe-inline
suggested by bentley@ Nov 10, 2019 at 06:02:49AM -0700
http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1
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+- implement the tbl(7) layout "n" specifier for HTML output,
+ probably by manual alignment, inserting adequate numbers of
+ digit-width spaces, similar to tbl_term.c, tbl_number()
+ Oliver Corff 16 May 2021 20:29:00 +0200
+ loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp **
+
- 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
* warning issues
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+- shorten/simplify error messages for usage errors
+ To: deraadt@ 25 Oct 2020 23:37:01 +0100
+ loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp ***
+
- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads
gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200
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output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a
macro line (from the mdoclint TODO)
+- report double .TH in man(7) as an ERROR and let the first win
+ kristaps@ 28 Mar 2021 13:30:41 +0200
+ loc * exist * algo * size * imp *
+
- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories:
/usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part
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