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* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.313 2021/06/02 18:23:34 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.319 2021/09/21 17:58:13 schwarze Exp $
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Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
which risks causing more severe bugs.
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+* bugs: invalid output
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+- 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.
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+- eqn(7) delimiters cause conditional lines to misbehave
+ nabijaczleweli 8 Sep 2021 15:24:48 +0200
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+- roff.c, roff_expand() should not remove blanks before comments
+ to Oliver Corff, Sep 7, 2021
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+ but watch out for regressions in the high-level parsers
+ maybe it should not even remove comments? - consider T{\"
+
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* missing features
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--- missing misc features ----------------------------------------------
+- conisder whether man(1) fallback code in main.c/fs_*() can find files
+ like man3c/fopen.3c (illumos, Solaris) and man3p/fopen.3p (POSIX)
+ discussed with Robert Mustacchi 21 Sep 2021 10:39:40 -0700
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+- 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
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- -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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--- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
+- make the HTML scaffolding customozable with -O skip=...
+ mail to Oliver Corff 3 Jun 2021 17:28:02 +0200
+ more feedback from Oliver 3 Jun 2021 18:27:56 +0200
+ more feedback from Oliver 3 Jun 2021 23:37:18 +0200
+
- .Bd -unfilled should not use monospaced font
anton@ 4 Mar 2021 08:19:35 +0100
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+- 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
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+
- 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
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- 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