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* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.88 2011/02/02 21:40:45 kristaps Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.104 2011/04/30 10:18:24 kristaps Exp $
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- .TP before .SH is still FATAL in man(7)
reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:54:54 -0500
-- The mdoc(7) parser should handle `\.' as punctuation:
- .Ql .if ${VAR} op something \.
- should produce
- `.if ${VAR} op something'.
- not
- `.if ${VAR} op something .'
- as seen in make(1).
- To escape the dot, one would use `\&.'.
-
- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between
a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g.
.if n \{
* formatter bugs
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+- tbl(7): Horizontal and vertical lines are formatted badly:
+ With the box option, there is too much white space at the end of cells.
+ Horizontal lines from "=" lines are a bit too long.
+ yuri dot pankov at gmail dot com Thu, 14 Apr 2011 05:45:26 +0400
+
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* missing features
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- \c (interrupted text) occurs in chat(8)
+- \f(CW (constant width font) occurs in rsyncd.conf(5).
+ I think we should treat unknown/unavailable fonts as \fR
+ such that switching back with \fP works correctly -
+ and doesn't revert the _previous_ \fP.
+
--- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
- fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
+- In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded
+ as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly
+ ugly code from login.conf(5):
+ .Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd
+ .It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH
+ .br
+ Default search path.
+ reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net>
+ via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059
+
- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal
text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -."
--- missing man features -----------------------------------------------
-- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after
- .SM
- .B something
- should either just work or be a warning
- reported by naddy@
+- .RS/.RE can be nested, see e.g. the x11/fluxbox manuals
+ noticed by dcoppa@ Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 04:58:14PM +0200:
- groff an-ext.tmac macros (.UR, .UE) occur in xine(5)
reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500
reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
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-* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
+* formatting issues: gratuitous differences
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- .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named
Also have `It' complain if `Pp' is invoked at certain times (not
-compact?).
+- .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one,
+ not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5).
+ reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059
+
- If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after
the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking.
See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1).
should have a blank line between the text and the beginning of the
indented paragraph, see for example sudo(1).
+- In man(7), the sequence
+ .SH HEADER
+ <blank line>
+ .PP
+ regular text
+ should not produce any blank lines between the header and the text,
+ see for example rsync(1).
+ Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200
+
+- In man(7), the sequence
+ regular text
+ .PP
+ .RS
+ indented text
+ should produce one blank line between the regular and indented texts,
+ see for example rsync(1), and
+ .RE
+ <blank line>
+ .PP
+ .RS
+ should produce two,not one blank lines.
+ Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200
+
+- In man(7), the sequence
+ regular text
+ .IP
+ .IP "tag"
+ indented text
+ should produce one, not four blank lines between the regular text
+ and the tag, see for example rsync(1).
+ Likewise,
+ regular text
+ .IP
+ indented text
+ should produce one, not two blank lines in between, and
+ regular text
+ .IP
+ .RS
+ .IP tag
+ indented text
+ should produce one, not three blank lines.
+ Reported by naddy@ Mon, 28 Mar 2011 20:45:42 +0200
+
- At least sometimes, .sp is ignored right after .SH; see named.conf(5).
- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape,
- Find better ways to prevent endless loops
in roff(7) macro and string expansion.
-
+
+- Finish cleanup of date handling.
+ Decide which formats should be recognized where.
+ Update both mdoc(7) and man(7) documentation.
+ Triggered by Tim van der Molen Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:30:45 +0100
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