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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2018-08-06 14:16:30 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2018-08-06 14:16:30 +0000
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scanned to groff manual pages for todo items;
the sheer number of issues is amazing, but they all look feasible
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diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index b4711c95..6df63ea3 100644
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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
************************************************************************
* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.257 2018/07/31 15:25:55 schwarze Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.258 2018/08/06 14:16:30 schwarze Exp $
************************************************************************
Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows:
@@ -38,6 +38,18 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
--- missing roff features ----------------------------------------------
+- .nop prints its arguments as text,
+ see groff(7) for an example
+
+- .ft CB selects constant-width bold font
+ see groff_out(7) for examples
+
+- \*(.T prints the device being used,
+ see groff_char(7) for an example
+
+- \[charNN], \[charNNN] prints a single-byte codepoint
+ see groff_char(7) for examples
+
- .ad (adjust margins)
.ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left)
.ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right)
@@ -162,8 +174,18 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
--- missing man features -----------------------------------------------
+- .SY and .YS,
+ used by many groff manual pages
+
+- preserve punctuation following .ME,
+ see ditroff(7) for an example
+
+- .TQ tagged paragraph continuation,
+ see groff_diff(7) for examples
+
- 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.
We should probably *not* add them to mandoc.
Just mentioning this here to keep track of the abuse.
Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200
@@ -180,6 +202,9 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200
loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp *
+- support .ds requests inside tbl(7) code,
+ see tbl(1) for an example
+
- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code;
probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7)
use roff_node such that macro sets can mix;
@@ -316,6 +341,9 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong.
* formatting issues: ugly output
************************************************************************
+- .UR can nest inside .TP,
+ see roff(7) for examples
+
- revisit empty in-line macros
look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ."
Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100