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authorIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2010-08-15 16:38:35 +0000
committerIngo Schwarze <schwarze@openbsd.org>2010-08-15 16:38:35 +0000
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************************************************************************
* Official mandoc TODO.
-* $Id: TODO,v 1.37 2010/08/14 09:48:56 kristaps Exp $
+* $Id: TODO,v 1.38 2010/08/15 16:38:35 schwarze Exp $
************************************************************************
************************************************************************
@@ -84,7 +84,40 @@
* formatting issues: gratuitious differences
************************************************************************
-- none reported right now (yet schwarze@ knows of some)
+- .%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).
************************************************************************
* performance issues
@@ -106,3 +139,9 @@ Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are
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
+