move some things here from my private TODO list,

and remove some items that have already been taken care of

1 files changed, 78 insertions, 17 deletions

diff --git a/TODO b/TODO
index f5b05a2f..63bb5a8a 100644
--- a/TODO
+++ b/TODO
@@ -64,11 +64,6 @@
 - using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty
   wl@  Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000
 
-- general expression parser, including arithmetics
-  to be used at least for .if/.ie and .nr and maybe at other places
-  could use J.T.Conklin's PD code in bin/expr/expr.c for inspiration
-  needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@  Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100
-
 --- missing mdoc features ----------------------------------------------
 
 - fix bad block nesting involving multiple identical explicit blocks
@@ -92,6 +87,12 @@
   because libmdoc does not yet use mandoc_getarg().
   Also check what happens in plain text, it must be identical to \e.
 
+- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not
+  easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which
+  we don't have either.
+  Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered
+  to be centered as well.
+
 - .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both
   the left and right margin.  In groff, it is implemented in terms
   of .ad b, which we don't have either.  Found in cksum(1).
@@ -125,10 +126,19 @@
 
 - have a blank `It' head for `Bl -tag' not puke
 
+- check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1;
+  does it need its own constant?
+
 - 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)
 
+- support translated section names
+  e.g. x11/scrotwm scrotwm_es.1:21:2: error: NAME section must be first
+  that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish...
+  deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour
+  is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant
+
 - When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains
   the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line
   macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line.
@@ -146,9 +156,8 @@
 - look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port,
   they use some unsupported tbl(7) features.
 
-- 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
+- investigate tbl(1) errors in sox(1)
+  see also naddy@  Sat, 16 Oct 2010 23:51:57 +0200
 
 - allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout
   delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line
@@ -159,15 +168,6 @@
 - italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode
   Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org  Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46
 
-- The whatis(1) utility looks for whole words in Nm.
-  If the file name of a page does not agree with the contents of any
-  of its Nm macros (e.g. pool(9)), add the file name as an Nm entry
-  to the mandoc.db as well, such that whatis(1) finds it.
-  If there is a page with a file name that does not appear as a substring
-  neither in Nm nor in Nd, the same fix would allow finding that page
-  with apropos(1) using the file name as a key, as well.
-  Issue reported by tedu@  Fri, 05 Jul 2013 21:15:23 -0400
-
 - When makewhatis(8) encounters a FATAL parse error,
   it silently treats the file as formatted, which makes no sense
   at all for paths like man1/foo.1 - and which also contradicts
@@ -189,6 +189,15 @@
       see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples
   (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING
 
+- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me  Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET)
+
+--- compatibility checks -----------------------------------------------
+
+- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff?
+  sobrado@  Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200
+
+- compare output to Heirloom roff and Solaris roff
+
 - 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
   roff stuff.  Figure out to what extent we can cope.
@@ -196,6 +205,9 @@
   noted by stsp@  Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200
   reminded by nicm@  Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100
 
+- look at pages generated from ronn(1) github.com/rtomayko/ronn
+  (based on markdown)
+
 - look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg
   First impression is not that bad.
 
@@ -208,6 +220,9 @@
   http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html
   "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700
 
+- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter
+  https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c
+
 ************************************************************************
 * formatting issues: ugly output
 ************************************************************************
@@ -239,6 +254,10 @@
   the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop.
   reported by Nicolas Joly  Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100
 
+- global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages
+  .Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ...
+  from kristaps@  Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200
+
 - in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence
   reminded by jmc@  Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059
 
@@ -256,6 +275,11 @@
 
 --- HTML issues --------------------------------------------------------
 
+- <dl><dt><dd> formatting is ugly
+  hints are easy to find on the web, e.g.
+  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713048/
+  see also matthew@  Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:12 -0700
+
 - check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml
 
 ************************************************************************
@@ -270,6 +294,10 @@
   is just "o\bo".
   see for example OpenBSD ksh(1)
 
+- In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after
+  the number, mandoc breaks the line.
+  mail to kristaps@  Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200
+
 - .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one,
   not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5).
   reported by jmc@  Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059
@@ -333,6 +361,39 @@
   See the mail from Werner LEMBERG on the groff list,
   Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:54:42 +0100 (CET)
 
+- warn about "new sentence, new line"
+
+- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence,
+  but just the overall format
+
+- integrate mdoclint into mandoc ("end-of-line whitespace" thread)
+  from jmc@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0100
+  from kristaps@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0200
+  from jmc@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:37 +0059
+  from kristaps@  Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:02:03 +0200
+
+- -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout
+  to tech@mdocml, naddy@  Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200
+  wait!  kristaps@  Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0200
+
+- for system errors, use errno/strerror/warn/err
+
+************************************************************************
+* documentation issues
+************************************************************************
+
+- mention hyphenation rules:
+  breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args)
+  proper hyphenation is unimplemented
+
+- talk about spacing around delimiters
+  to jmc@, kristaps@  Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200
+
+- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain
+  is this useful?
+
+- mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)?
+
 ************************************************************************
 * performance issues
 ************************************************************************