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@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ ************************************************************************ * Official mandoc TODO. -* $Id: TODO,v 1.295 2019/06/11 16:04:36 schwarze Exp $ +* $Id: TODO,v 1.319 2021/09/21 17:58:13 schwarze Exp $ ************************************************************************ Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows: @@ -33,6 +33,43 @@ Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. ************************************************************************ +* assertion failures +************************************************************************ + +- .if n .ce in the middle of .TS data + afl case f1/id:000103,sig:06,src:009024+009105,op:splice,rep:2 (jes@) + While roff_parseln() prevents .ce and similar requests in the middle + of a tbl, the guard is no longer effective when the .ce is wrapped + in a roff block, for example a conditional. The resulting assertion + has never been seen in any real-world manual page. + This is too dangerous to fix before release because it requires + reorganizing the very delicate internals of roff_parseln(), + which risks causing more severe bugs. + loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp * + + +************************************************************************ +* bugs: invalid output +************************************************************************ + +- 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. + loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp *** + +- eqn(7) delimiters cause conditional lines to misbehave + nabijaczleweli 8 Sep 2021 15:24:48 +0200 + loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp * + +- roff.c, roff_expand() should not remove blanks before comments + to Oliver Corff, Sep 7, 2021 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp * + but watch out for regressions in the high-level parsers + maybe it should not even remove comments? - consider T{\" + + +************************************************************************ * missing features ************************************************************************ @@ -83,8 +120,39 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp * +- mandoc replaces all ASCII control characters except tab and line feed + with '?' during input. It would be better to replace them with + Unicode escapes in preconv_encode() or somewhere in the vicinity, + such that the already existing better replacement strings show + up in the output. Emulating groff is not desirable: groff replaces + 0x00, 0x0b, and 0x0d to 0x1f with the empty string (bad because + that's easy to overlook for the document author), 0x01 with '.' + (very confusing), and passes through 0x02 to 0x08, 0x0c, and 0x7f + raw (bad because that is insecure output). Remember that 0x07 may + need special handling because it is sometimes used for certain + delimiters, so it may need handling *after* roff.c rather than before. + reminded by John Gardner 16 Jun 2020 14:26:28 +1000 + Actually, more ASCII control characters than just 0x07 may need + later handling because they can for example be used in macro names. + So they may need handling after roff(7) processing. + pointed out by John Gardner 23 Jun 2020 18:28:08 +1000 + more info from John Gardner 29 Jun 2020 19:54:04 +1000 + loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp * + +- many missing features used in old groff_char(7), + some can possibly be supported + kamil at netbsd 12 Nov 2020 17:27:09 +0100 + reply + +- \s with arbitrary arg delimiters as already supported for other escapes + found following jmc@'s mail 28 Apr 2021 18:31:41 +0100 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp * + --- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- +- .Sh and .Ss should be parsed and partially callable, see groff_mdoc(7) + reed at reedmedia dot net Sat, 21 Dec 2019 17:13:07 -0600 + loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp * + - .Bl -column .Xo support is missing ultimate goal: restore .Xr and .Dv to @@ -153,6 +221,13 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- +- MANWIDTH + Markus Waldeck <waldeck at gmx dot de> 9 Jun 2015 05:49:56 +0200 + Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 26 Apr 2018 08:15:55 +0200 + Kamil Rytarowski <kamil at netbsd> 13 Nov 2020 00:19:36 +0100 + patch from Kamil 13 Nov 2020 22:37:07 +0100 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp * + - 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. @@ -217,6 +292,21 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. --- 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 + loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ** + +- 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 + loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** + +- -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 + loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp ** + - man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally - italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode @@ -291,6 +381,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. - 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 + + ************************************************************************ * formatting issues: ugly output ************************************************************************ @@ -370,10 +464,29 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)). re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100 - loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** + loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** --- 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 + loc ** exist * algo * size * imp ** + +- 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 + loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp ** + +- 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 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** + - .Bf at the beginning of a paragraph inserts a bogus 1ex horizontal space, see for example random(3). Introduced in http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_html.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92 @@ -386,6 +499,11 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15 loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** +- space characters can end up in href= attributes, for example coming + from the first .Xr argument (where they make no sense, but still); + does this affect other characters, other source macros...? + Jackson Pauls 29 Aug 2017 16:56:27 +0100 + - The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>. Not yet sure how to fix that... @@ -470,6 +588,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * warning issues ************************************************************************ +- shorten/simplify error messages for usage errors + To: deraadt@ 25 Oct 2020 23:37:01 +0100 + loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp *** + - warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** @@ -505,6 +627,10 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a macro line (from the mdoclint TODO) +- report double .TH in man(7) as an ERROR and let the first win + kristaps@ 28 Mar 2021 13:30:41 +0200 + loc * exist * algo * size * imp * + - makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories: /usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part @@ -553,6 +679,9 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * CGI issues ************************************************************************ + - Inspect httpd(8) logs on man.openbsd.org and consider + whether logging can be improved, where bad syntax comes from, + and what needs to be done to get rid of COMPAT_OLDURI. - Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering output through libz. - Privilege separation (see OpenSSH). @@ -562,6 +691,15 @@ are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. * to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros ************************************************************************ +- delete OS release verification from .Dx, .Fx, .Nx, .Ox etc. + https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=629161 + also Branden Robinson 18 Dec 2019 00:59:52 +1100 + +- Can the distinction between .Vt and .Va be made stricter, + recommending .Vt extern char * Ns Va optarg ; ? + What about the block macro properties of .Vt in the SYNOPSIS? + zeurkous 25 Dec 2019 08:48:36 +0100 + - .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages: find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe: allow .Dt vgafb 4 "macppc sparc64" |