Remove useless DIVs in favour of BRs. Fix `Ex' by having it print a prior

[mandoc.git] / TODO

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
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--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -1,8 +1,23 @@
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-* Official mandoc TODO.  May not be quite up to date.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.32 2010/07/19 11:06:31 kristaps Exp $
+* Official mandoc TODO.
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.68 2010/12/16 01:00:29 kristaps Exp $

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

+************************************************************************
+* parser bugs
+************************************************************************
+
+- the roff parser doesn't tolerate additional characters between
+  a macro and the \} terminating a conditional block, e.g.
+  .if n \{
+  .br \}
+  reported by ulrich spoerlein  Tue, 19 Oct 2010 20:39:50 +0200
+
+- .BI "string string " word punct in gettext(3)
+  add bogus line breaks (rep by naddy@)
+  committed; currently working on IP and TP?
+  and what about B and I?
+

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


@@ -36,10 +51,18 @@
   \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,
   and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.
 
   \\ must behave in a macro def like in a macro argument,
   and when using the macro, it must expand yet again.
 

-- 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
+- implement basic non-parametric .de to support e.g. sox(1)
+  reported by naddy@ Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200
+  *** sox(1) still doesn't work, tbl(1) errors need investigation
+
+- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes:
+  (1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content
+  (2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content
+      or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR
+      see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples
+  (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING
+
+- port OpenBSD tbl integration bsd.lv, probably cleaning it up

 
 - 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


@@ -55,6 +78,13 @@
 - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
   flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
 
 - explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal
   flags defined for struct mdoc_macro
 

+- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal
+  text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -."
+
+- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf'
+  is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab."
+  but should give "ab ."
+

 - set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned
 
 - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke
 - set a meaningful default if no `Bl' list type is assigned
 
 - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke


@@ -62,23 +92,93 @@
 - 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)
 - 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)

-  
+
+- xloadimage(1) wants .ti (temporary indent), rep by naddy@
+
+- bashbug(1) complains "line scope broken" after
+  .SM
+  .B something
+  should either just work or be a warning
+  reported by naddy@
+

 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: ugly output
 ************************************************************************
 
 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: ugly output
 ************************************************************************
 

+- double quotes inside double quotes are escaped by doubling them
+  implement this in man(7) and mdoc(7)
+  reminded by millert@  Thu, 09 Dec 2010 17:29:52 -0500
+

 - perl(1) SYNOPSIS looks bad; reported by deraadt@
   1) man(7) seems to need SYNOPSIS .Nm blocks, too
 
 - 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
 

+- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence
+  reminded by jmc@  Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
+

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

-- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
+- .Rv (and probably .Ex) print different text if an `Nm' has been named
+  or not (run a manual without `Nm blah' to see this).  I'm not sure
+  that this exists in the wild, but it's still an error.
+
+- .%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)
+
+- In .Bl -bullet, the groff bullet is "+\b+\bo\bo", the mandoc bullet
+  is just "o\bo".
+  see for example 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).
+  Also have `It' complain if `Pp' is invoked at certain times (not
+  -compact?).
+
+- .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).
+
+- .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).
+
+- The \& zero-width character counts as output.
+  That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp,
+  we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc.
+
+- When .Fn arguments exceed one output line, all but the first
+  should be indented, see e.g. rpc(3);
+  reported by jmc@ on discuss@  Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:48:33 +0100
+
+- It seems that .TP does not want TWOSPACE after the tag;
+  see bashbug(1); reported by naddy@
+
+- Header lines of excessive length:
+  Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c
+  and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY
+  found while talking to Chris Bennett

 
 ************************************************************************
 * performance issues
 
 ************************************************************************
 * performance issues


@@ -90,6 +190,12 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster.  These are
 
 - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
 
 
 - improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important)
 

+- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets
+

 ************************************************************************
 * structural issues
 ************************************************************************
 ************************************************************************
 * structural issues
 ************************************************************************

+
+- Find better ways to prevent endless loops
+  in roff(7) macro and string expansion.
+