1************************************************************************ 2* Official mandoc TODO. 3* $Id: TODO,v 1.295 2019/06/11 16:04:36 schwarze Exp $ 4************************************************************************ 5 6Many issues are annotated for difficulty as follows: 7 8 - loc = locality of the issue 9 * single file issue, affects file only, or very few 10 ** single module issue, affects several files of one module 11 *** cross-module issue, significantly impacts multiple modules 12 and may require substantial changes to internal interfaces 13 - exist = difficulty of the existing code in this area 14 * affected code is straightforward and easy to read and change 15 ** affected code is somewhat complex, but once you understand 16 the design, not particularly difficult to understand 17 *** affected code uses a special, exceptionally tricky design 18 - algo = difficulty of the new algorithm to be written 19 * the required logic and code is straightforward 20 ** the required logic is somewhat complex and needs a careful design 21 *** the required logic is exceptionally tricky, 22 maybe an approach to solve that is not even known yet 23 - size = the amount of code to be written or changed 24 * a small number of lines (at most 100, usually much less) 25 ** a considerable amount of code (several dozen to a few hundred) 26 *** a large amount of code (many hundreds, maybe thousands) 27 - imp = importance of the issue 28 * mostly for completeness 29 ** would be nice to have 30 *** issue causes considerable inconvenience 31 32Obviously, as the issues have not been solved yet, these annotations 33are mere guesses, and some may be wrong. 34 35************************************************************************ 36* missing features 37************************************************************************ 38 39--- missing roff features ---------------------------------------------- 40 41- .ad (adjust margins) 42 .ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left) 43 .ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right) 44 .ad c -- center text on line 45 .ad b -- adjust both margins (alias: .ad n) 46 .na -- temporarily disable adjustment without changing the mode 47 .ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode 48 Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf). 49 loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) 50 51- .fc (field control) 52 found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) 53 loc ** exist *** algo * size * imp * 54 55- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1) 56 when implementing this, also let .TH set it 57 reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 58 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp * 59 60- \w'' improve width measurements 61 would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below 62 needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100 63 loc ** exist *** algo *** size * imp *** 64 65- .als only works for macros in mandoc, not for user-defined strings. 66 Also, the "val" field in struct roffkv would have to be replaced 67 with a pointer to a reference-counted wrapper, and an alias 68 would have to point to the same wrapper as the original. 69 .als to undefined does nothing; the alias is not created. 70 .rm'ing the original leaves the alias to point to the old value. 71 .de .als .de changes both, but 72 .de .als .rm .de only changes the new value, not the alias. 73 Found in groffer(1) version 1.19 74 Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200 75 loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp * 76 77- roff string condition comparisons fail when vars contain quotes: 78 .ds s ' 79 .if '\*s'' \&... 80 hard to fix because of the basic architecture (string replacement 81 happens before roff(7) syntax parsing) 82 Found in groffer(1) version 1.19 83 Jan Stary 20 Apr 2019 20:16:54 +0200 84 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp * 85 86--- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- 87 88- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing 89 ultimate goal: 90 restore .Xr and .Dv to 91 lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3 92 lib/libc/gen/signal.3 93 lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 94 loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp ** 95 96- edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g. 97 .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1) 98 from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 99 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp ** 100 101- .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both 102 the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms 103 of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1). 104 loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) 105 106- implement blank `Bl -column', such as 107 .Bl -column 108 .It foo Ta bar 109 .El 110 loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp * 111 112- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal 113 flags defined for struct mdoc_macro 114 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 115 116- In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded 117 as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly 118 ugly code from login.conf(5): 119 .Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd 120 .It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH 121 .br 122 Default search path. 123 reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net> 124 via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059 125 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 126 127- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal 128 text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -." 129 130- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf' 131 is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab." 132 but should give "ab ." 133 134- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children 135 (e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) 136 (mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) 137 138- support translated section names 139 e.g. x11/scrotwm scrotwm_es.1:21:2: error: NAME section must be first 140 that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish... 141 deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour 142 is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant 143 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 144 145- When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains 146 the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line 147 macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line. 148 No idea how the logic for distinguishing in-line and block instances 149 should be, needs investigation. 150 uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200 151 uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200 152 loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ** 153 154--- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- 155 156- groff_www(7) .MTO and .URL 157 These macros were used by the GNU grep(1) man page. 158 The groff_www(7) manual page itself uses them, too. 159 We should probably *not* add them to mandoc. 160 Just mentioning this here to keep track of the abuse. 161 Laura Morales <lauretas at mail dot com> 20 Apr 2018 07:33:02 +0200 162 loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp * 163 164--- missing tbl features ----------------------------------------------- 165 166- vertical centering in cells vertically spanned with ^ 167 pali dot rohar at gmail dot com 16 Jul 2018 13:03:35 +0200 168 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp * 169 170- support mdoc(7) and man(7) macros inside tbl(7) code; 171 probably requires the parser reorg and letting tbl(7) 172 use roff_node such that macro sets can mix; 173 informed by bapt@ that FreeBSD needs this: 3 Jan 2015 23:32:23 +0100 174 loc *** exist ** algo *** size ** imp *** 175 176- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port, 177 they use some unsupported tbl(7) features, mostly macros in tbl(7). 178 loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** 179 180- look what Joerg Schilling manual pages use 181 Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:31:48 +0100 182 183--- missing eqn features ----------------------------------------------- 184 185- In a matrix, break the output line after each matrix line. 186 Found in the discussion at CDBUG 2015. Suggested by Avi Weinstock. 187 This may not be the ideal solution after all: eqn(7) matrices 188 are lists of columns, so Avi's proposal would show each *column* 189 on its own *line*, which is likely to cause confusion. 190 A better solution, but much harder to implement, would be to 191 actually show the coordinates of column vectors on different 192 terminal output lines, using the clumnated output facilities 193 developed for .Bl -tag, .Bl -column, and also used for tbl(7). 194 loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** 195 196- The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter. 197 loc * exist * algo * size * imp * 198 199- The spacing characters `~', `^', and tab are currently ignored, 200 see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 2 section 4. 201 loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ** 202 203- Mark and lineup are parsed and ignored, 204 see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15. 205 loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** 206 207- GNU eqn converts some operators to special characters, for example, 208 input HYPHEN-MINUS becomes output \(mi, unless it is part of a 209 quoted word. mandoc(1) only does this when the operator is 210 surrounded by blanks, not when it is part of an unquoted word. 211 Also, check whether there are more such cases (e.g., +?). 212 reported by bentley@ 20 Jun 2017 02:04:29 -0600 213 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp * 214 215- Primes, opprime, and ' 216 bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 23:14:20 -0600 217 218--- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- 219 220- man -ks 1,8 route; kn@ Jul 13, 2018 orally 221 222- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode 223 Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46 224 loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp * 225 226- change the default PAGER to more -Es and use the pager 227 even for apropos title line output; req by bapt@ 228 loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** 229 230- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: 231 (1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content 232 (2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content 233 or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR 234 see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples 235 (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING 236 loc *** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** (parser reorg helps) 237 238- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET) 239 loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp * 240 241--- compatibility checks ----------------------------------------------- 242 243- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff? 244 sobrado@ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200 245 246- compare output to Heirloom roff, Solaris roff, and 247 http://repo.or.cz/w/neatroff.git http://litcave.rudi.ir/ 248 249- look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download 250 Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches 251 Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200 252 ported version: https://github.com/n-t-roff/DWB3.3 253 Carsten Kunze Wed, 22 Apr 2015 11:21:43 +0200 254 255- look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1) 256 These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level 257 roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. 258 For details, see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html 259 noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 260 reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 261 262- look at pages generated from ronn(1) github.com/rtomayko/ronn 263 (based on markdown) 264 265- look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg 266 First impression is not that bad. 267 268- look at pages generated by pandoc; see 269 https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Man.hs 270 porting planned by kili@ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:46:28 +0200 271 272- check compatibility with Plan9: 273 http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an 274 http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html 275 "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700 276 277- check compatibility with COHERENT troff: 278 http://www.nesssoftware.com/home/mwc/source.php 279 280- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter 281 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c 282 283- check compatibility with 284 http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/contrib/mandoc/ 285 https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc 286 Amitai Schlair Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400 287 288- check compatibility with 289 https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/scdoc 290 291- check features of the Slackware man.conf(5) format 292 Carsten Kunze Wed, 11 Mar 2015 17:57:24 +0100 293 294************************************************************************ 295* formatting issues: ugly output 296************************************************************************ 297 298- revisit empty in-line macros 299 look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ." 300 Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100 301 loc *** exist *** algo *** size * imp ** 302 303- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurious 304 start-with-whitespace printing of a newline 305 306- In .Bl -column, .It a<tab>"b<tab>c" 307 shows the quotes in groff, but not in mandoc 308 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 309 310- In .Bl -column, 311 .It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length 312 ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, 313 see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). 314 reported again Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200 315 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** 316 317- empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks 318 try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta 319 reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400 320 loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp ** 321 322- .%T can have trailing punctuation. Currently, it puts the trailing 323 punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope. 324 That element should rather be outside its scope, such that the 325 punctuation does not get underlines. This is not trivial to 326 implement because .%T then needs some features of in_line_eoln() - 327 slurp all arguments into one single text element - and one feature 328 of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope. 329 Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix". 330 loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp ** 331 332- Trailing punctuation after .%T triggers EOS spacing, at least 333 outside .Rs (eek!). Simply setting ARGSFL_DELIM for .%T is not 334 the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop. 335 reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 336 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 337 338- global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages 339 .Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ... 340 from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200 341 342- implicit whitespace around inline equations 343 example code: where '$times$' denotes matrix multiplication 344 must not have an HTML line break, nor a blank, before <math> 345 partial solution: html.c {"math", HTML_NLINSIDE | HTML_INDENT}, 346 bentley@ Thu, 13 Jul 2017 19:00:59 -0600 347 348- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence 349 reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 350 loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp *** 351 352- a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace 353 and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1) 354 This will become easier once escape sequences are represented 355 by syntax tree nodes. 356 loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp ** 357 358- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc 359 reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc... 360 reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600 361 362--- PostScript and PDF issues ------------------------------------------ 363 364- PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal 365 Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf". 366 Search the text "Routing tables". 367 Also check what PostScript mode does when fixing this. 368 reported by juanfra@ Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:44:58 +0200 369 instructions from juanfra@ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200 370 add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier 371 and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)). 372 re-reported by tb@ Mon, 16 Mar 2015 16:47:21 +0100 373 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 374 375--- HTML issues -------------------------------------------------------- 376 377- .Bf at the beginning of a paragraph inserts a bogus 1ex horizontal 378 space, see for example random(3). Introduced in 379 http://mdocml.bsd.lv/cgi-bin/cvsweb/mdoc_html.c.diff?r1=1.91&r2=1.92 380 reported by deraadt@ Mon, 28 Sep 2015 20:14:13 -0600 (MDT) 381 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp * 382 383- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014: 384 try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking 385 and render them with <a class="Xr" href=...> 386 https://github.com/Debian/debiman/issues/15 387 loc * exist * algo ** size ** imp ** 388 389- The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force 390 the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>. 391 Not yet sure how to fix that... 392 Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org: 393 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1 394 loc * exist * algo ** size * imp *** 395 396- generate <img> tags in HTML 397 idea from florian@ Tue, 7 Apr 2015 00:26:28 +0000 398 may be possible to implement with .Lk img://something.png alt_text 399 400- check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml 401 402************************************************************************ 403* formatting issues: gratuitous differences 404************************************************************************ 405 406- .Fn reopens a new scope after punctuation in mandoc, 407 but closes its scope for good in groff. 408 Do we want to change mandoc or groff? 409 Steffen Nurpmeso Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:34:59 +0100 410 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 411 412- In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after 413 the number, mandoc breaks the line. 414 mail to kristaps@ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200 415 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 416 417- .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one, 418 not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5). 419 reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059 420 reported again by sthen@ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC) 421 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 422 423- If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after 424 the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking. 425 See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1). 426 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 427 428- If the first line after .It is .D1, do not assert a blank line 429 in between, see for example tmux(1). 430 reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000 431 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 432 433- Trailing punctuation after .It should trigger EOS spacing. 434 reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 435 Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure. 436 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 437 438- When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered 439 before measuring the width, for example 440 .Bl -tag -width ".Dv message" 441 in magic(5), located in src/usr.bin/file, is the same 442 as -width 7n, not -width 11n. 443 The same applies to .Bl -column column widths; 444 reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar 445 reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200 446 reported again by Bruce Evans Fri, 17 Feb 2017 21:22:44 +0100 via bapt@ 447 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** 448 An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts 449 with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring. 450 loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** 451 452- The \& zero-width character counts as output. 453 That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp, 454 we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc. 455 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 456 457- Sequences of multiple man(7) paragraphs (.PP, .IP) interspersed 458 with .ps and .nf/.fi produce execessive blank lines, see libJudy 459 and graphics/dcmtk. The parser reorg may help with this. 460 461- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape, 462 see for example 463 makes 464 \fBdig \fR 465 operate in batch mode 466 in dig(1). 467 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 468 469************************************************************************ 470* warning issues 471************************************************************************ 472 473- warn about duplicate .Sh/.Ss heads 474 gre(4): Rename duplicate sections 20 Apr 2018 15:27:33 +0200 475 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 476 477- style message about macros inside .Bd -literal and .Dl, in particular 478 font changing macros like .Cm, .Ar, .Fa (from the mdoclint TODO) 479 480- style message about mismatches between the section number in the 481 file name (if it is known) and the section number in .Dt 482 (from the mdoclint TODO) 483 484- style message about NULL without .Dv (from the mdoclint TODO) 485 486- style message about error constants without .Er (from the mdoclint TODO) 487 488- warn when .Sh or .Ss contain other macros 489 Steffen Nurpmeso, savannah.gnu.org/bugs/index.php?45034 490 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 491 492- style message about violations of the convention 493 .An name Aq Mt localpart@domain in AUTHORS (from the mdoclint TODO) 494 495- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros 496 Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100 497 Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff. 498 .Fn Po prints "Po()", .Ar Sh prints "file ..." and no "Sh". 499 Relatively hard because the relevant code is scattered 500 all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different. 501 loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** 502 503- warn about punctuation - e.g. ',' and ';' - at the beginning 504 of a text line, if it is likely intended to follow the preceding 505 output without intervening whitespace, in particular after a 506 macro line (from the mdoclint TODO) 507 508- makewhatis -p complains about language subdirectories: 509 /usr/local/man//ru: Unknown directory part 510 511 512************************************************************************ 513* documentation issues 514************************************************************************ 515 516- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain 517 is this useful? 518 519- mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)? 520 521- Is all the content from http://www.std.com/obi/BSD/doc/usd/28.tbl/tbl 522 covered in tbl(7)? 523 524************************************************************************ 525* performance issues 526************************************************************************ 527 528- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets 529 530************************************************************************ 531* structural issues 532************************************************************************ 533 534- POSIX says in the documentation of sysconf(3) that PATH_MAX 535 is allowed to be so large that it is a bad idea to use it 536 for sizing static buffers. So use dynamic buffers throughout. 537 See the file test-PATH_MAX.c for details. 538 Found by Aaron M. Ucko in the GNU Hurd via Bdale Garbee, 539 https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=829624 540 541- Is it possible to further simplify ENDBODY_SPACE? 542 543- Find better ways to prevent endless loops 544 in roff(7) macro and string expansion. 545 546- make buffers for parsing functions const 547 christos@ via wiz@ Fri, 18 Dec 2015 17:10:01 +0100 548 549- struct mparse refactoring 550 Steffen Nurpmeso Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200 551 552************************************************************************ 553* CGI issues 554************************************************************************ 555 556 - Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering 557 output through libz. 558 - Privilege separation (see OpenSSH). 559 - Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since. 560 561************************************************************************ 562* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros 563************************************************************************ 564 565- .Cd # arch1, arch2 in section 4 pages: 566 find better way to indicate multiple architectures, maybe: 567 allow .Dt vgafb 4 "macppc sparc64" 568 already shown as "Device Drivers Manual (macppc sparc64)" 569 for apropos, make that "vgafb(4) - macppc # sparc64" instead of "- all" 570 groff can be made to show multiple arches, too, but it is 571 tedious to do the string parsing in roff code... 572 jmc@ 23 Apr 2018 07:24:52 +0100 [man for vgafb(4)...] 573 loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp *** 574 575- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time 576 tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100 577 578- apostrophe (39), circumflex (94), grave (96), tilde (126) 579 in manuals: \(aq, \(ha, \`, \(ti 580 Re: [Groff] ASCII Minus Sign in man Pages. 581 bentley@ 26 Apr 2017 10:02:06 -0600 582 Do we need to fix existing manuals? 583 Do we need to fix the definition of the mdoc(7) language? 584
