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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+************************************************************************
+* Official mandoc TODO.
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.41 2010/08/18 08:39:54 kristaps Exp $
+************************************************************************
+

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


@@ -6,6 +11,9 @@
   at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh
   reminded by stsp@  in net/pptp pptp.8  Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200
 
   at the end of the enclosing block, e.g. .Bl It (El) Sh
   reminded by stsp@  in net/pptp pptp.8  Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200
 

+- 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
 - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing
   ultimate goal:
   restore .Xr and .Dv to


@@ -13,13 +21,13 @@
   lib/libc/gen/signal.3
   lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
 
   lib/libc/gen/signal.3
   lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2
 

-- .Bk / .Ek is broken, e.g.
-  $ man ssh
-  [...]
-  ssh [-1246AaCfgKkMNnqsTtVvXxYy] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec] [-D
-  [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile] [-I pkcs11]
-  reminded by Ludo Smissaert  Mon, 10 May 2010 12:15:11 +0200
-  also reported by jmc@ earlier
+- 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
 
 - implement \\
   in plain text, identical to \e


@@ -30,6 +38,9 @@
 
 - look at bsd.lv tbl(1)
   from kristaps@  Fri, 11 Sep 2009 17:10:53 +0200
 
 - look at bsd.lv tbl(1)
   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
 
 - 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


@@ -37,81 +48,141 @@
   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
 

+- implement blank `Bl -column', such as
+  .Bl -column
+  .It foo Ta bar
+  .El
+
+- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
+  flags defined for struct mdoc_macro

 
 

-- FIXED OpenBSD term.h 1.16 term.c 1.30 mdoc_term.c 1.75 schwarze 23.4.10
-  handle tab characters outside literal context, e.g. usb(4)
-  reported by jmc@  Mon, 19 Apr 2010 07:42:12 +0100
-  NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
+- set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned

 
 

-- FIXED OpenBSD man.h 1.15 libman.h 1.16 man_hash.c 1.9 
-  man.c 1.25 man_macro.c 1.15 man_validate.c 1.19 man_action.c 1.15 
-  man_term.c 1.28 man_html.c 1.9 schwarze 25.4.
-  implement .if .ie .el
-  noticed by espie@  Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:10:35 +0200
-  NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
+- have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke

 
 

+- 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
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 * 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
-
-- do not break the line after "--", it's probably a long option
-  reminded by stsp in net/pptp pptp.8  Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:32:39 +0200
-
-- URGENT, this is making many kernel manuals look bad:
-  .Ft/.Fn should MAYBE behave in custom section like in SYNOPSIS?
-  autoconf.9:
-    .Sh DIRECT CONFIGURATION
-    .nr nS 1
-    .Ft "struct device *"
-    .Fn config_found_sm "struct device *parent"
-  groff:
-    DIRECT CONFIGURATION
-      struct device *
-      config_found_sm(struct device *parent, ...
-  reported by sthen  Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:42:51 +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
 
 
 - 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
 

-- nroff inserts a space before :, mandoc doesn't:
-    .Dl expr "/$a" Li : '.*/\e(.*\e)'
+- %A doesn't put an "and" before the final author name.

 
 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: gratuitious differences
 ************************************************************************
 
 
 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: gratuitious differences
 ************************************************************************
 

-- FIXED OpenBSD mdoc.c 1.52 schwarze 16.5.10
-  lines containing blank characters, and nothing else,
-  in literal context (.Bd -literal):
-  groff outputs just blank lines "\n"
-  mandoc outputs blanks to the left margin,
-  then the number of balnks minus one
-  NEEDS MERGING TO bsd.lv
+- .%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

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

-* parser errors without any effect on formatting
+
+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
+
+************************************************************************
+* structural issues

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

-- OpenBSD::PackageName(3p) has "if (block) 90:1" in the parse tree
+- 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.