1************************************************************************ 2* Official mandoc TODO. 3* $Id: TODO,v 1.1.1.3 2015/12/17 21:58:48 christos 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* crashes 37************************************************************************ 38 39- The abort() in bufcat(), html.c, can be triggered via buffmt_includes() 40 by running -Thtml -Oincludes on a file containing a long .In argument. 41 Fixing this will probably require reworking the whole bufcat() concept. 42 loc ** exist * algo * size ** imp ** 43 44************************************************************************ 45* missing features 46************************************************************************ 47 48--- missing roff features ---------------------------------------------- 49 50- .ad (adjust margins) 51 .ad l -- adjust left margin only (flush left) 52 .ad r -- adjust right margin only (flush right) 53 .ad c -- center text on line 54 .ad b -- adjust both margins (alias: .ad n) 55 .na -- temporarily disable adjustment without changing the mode 56 .ad -- re-enable adjustment without changing the mode 57 Adjustment mode is ignored while in no-fill mode (.nf). 58 loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) 59 60- .fc (field control) 61 found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) 62 loc ** exist *** algo * size * imp * 63 64- .nr third argument (auto-increment step size, requires \n+) 65 found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700 66 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 67 68- .ns (no-space mode) occurs in xine-config(1) 69 reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:45:23 -0500 70 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp * 71 72- .ta (tab settings) 73 #1 most important issue naddy@ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100 74 ircbug(1) gnats(1) reported by brad@ Sat, 15 Jan 2011 15:50:51 -0500 75 also Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100 76 also posix2time(3) Carsten Kunze Mon, 1 Dec 2014 13:03:10 +0100 77 loc ** exist *** algo ** size ** imp *** 78 79- .ti (temporary indent) 80 found by naddy@ in xloadimage(1) [devel/libvstr] vstr(3) 81 found by bentley@ in nmh(1) Mon, 23 Apr 2012 13:38:28 -0600 82 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** (parser reorg helps a lot) 83 84- .while and .shift 85 found by jca@ in ratpoison(1) Sun, 30 Jun 2013 12:01:09 +0200 86 loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** 87 88- \h horizontal move 89 #2 most important issue naddy@ Mon, 16 Feb 2015 20:59:17 +0100 90 found in cclive(1) nasm(1) bogofilter(1) asciidoc/DocBook output 91 bentley@ on discuss@ Sat, 21 Sep 2013 22:29:34 -0600 92 naddy@ Thu, 4 Dec 2014 16:26:41 +0100 93 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp *** (parser reorg helps a lot) 94 95- \n+ and \n- numerical register increment and decrement 96 found by bentley@ in sbcl(1) Mon, 9 Dec 2013 18:36:57 -0700 97 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 98 99- \n(.$ macro argument count number register; ocserv(8) by autogen 100 found by sthen@ Thu, 19 Feb 2015 22:03:01 +0000 101 loc * exist ** algo * size * imp ** 102 103- \w'' improve width measurements 104 would not be very useful without an expression parser, see below 105 needed for Tcl_NewStringObj(3) via wiz@ Wed, 5 Mar 2014 22:27:43 +0100 106 loc ** exist *** algo *** size * imp *** 107 108- using undefined strings or macros defines them to be empty 109 wl@ Mon, 14 Nov 2011 14:37:01 +0000 110 loc * exist * algo * size * imp * 111 112--- missing mdoc features ---------------------------------------------- 113 114- .Bl -column .Xo support is missing 115 ultimate goal: 116 restore .Xr and .Dv to 117 lib/libc/compat-43/sigvec.3 118 lib/libc/gen/signal.3 119 lib/libc/sys/sigaction.2 120 loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp ** 121 122- edge case: decide how to deal with blk_full bad nesting, e.g. 123 .Sh .Nm .Bk .Nm .Ek .Sh found by jmc@ in ssh-keygen(1) 124 from jmc@ Wed, 14 Jul 2010 18:10:32 +0100 125 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp ** 126 127- .Bd -centered implies -filled, not -unfilled, which is not 128 easy to implement; it requires code similar to .ce, which 129 we don't have either. 130 Besides, groff has bug causing text right *before* .Bd -centered 131 to be centered as well. 132 loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) 133 134- .Bd -filled should not be the same as .Bd -ragged, but align both 135 the left and right margin. In groff, it is implemented in terms 136 of .ad b, which we don't have either. Found in cksum(1). 137 loc *** exist *** algo ** size ** imp ** (parser reorg would help) 138 139- implement blank `Bl -column', such as 140 .Bl -column 141 .It foo Ta bar 142 .El 143 loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp * 144 145- explicitly disallow nested `Bl -column', which would clobber internal 146 flags defined for struct mdoc_macro 147 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 148 149- In .Bl -column .It, the end of the line probably has to be regarded 150 as an implicit .Ta, if there could be one, see the following mildly 151 ugly code from login.conf(5): 152 .Bl -column minpasswordlen program xetcxmotd 153 .It path Ta path Ta value of Dv _PATH_DEFPATH 154 .br 155 Default search path. 156 reported by Michal Mazurek <akfaew at jasminek dot net> 157 via jmc@ Thu, 7 Apr 2011 16:00:53 +0059 158 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 159 160- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, punctuation is handled like normal 161 text, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Fl x . Ta ...' should give "-x -." 162 163- inside `.Bl -column' phrases, TERMP_IGNDELIM handling by `Pf' 164 is not safe, e.g. `.Bl -column .It Pf a b .' gives "ab." 165 but should give "ab ." 166 167- check whether it is correct that `D1' uses INDENT+1; 168 does it need its own constant? 169 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 170 171- prohibit `Nm' from having non-text HEAD children 172 (e.g., NetBSD mDNSShared/dns-sd.1) 173 (mdoc_html.c and mdoc_term.c `Nm' handlers can be slightly simplified) 174 175- support translated section names 176 e.g. x11/scrotwm scrotwm_es.1:21:2: error: NAME section must be first 177 that one uses NOMBRE because it is spanish... 178 deraadt tends to think that section-dependent macro behaviour 179 is a bad idea in the first place, so this may be irrelevant 180 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 181 182- When there is free text in the SYNOPSIS and that free text contains 183 the .Nm macro, groff somehow understands to treat the .Nm as an in-line 184 macro, while mandoc treats it as a block macro and breaks the line. 185 No idea how the logic for distinguishing in-line and block instances 186 should be, needs investigation. 187 uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:03:51 +0200 188 uqs@ Thu, 2 Jun 2011 11:33:35 +0200 189 loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp ** 190 191--- missing man features ----------------------------------------------- 192 193- -T[x]html doesn't stipulate non-collapsing spaces in literal mode 194 195--- missing tbl features ----------------------------------------------- 196 197- look at the POSIX manuals in the books/man-pages-posix port, 198 they use some unsupported tbl(7) features. 199 loc * exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** 200 201- use Unicode U+2500 to U+256C for table borders 202 in tbl(7) -Tutf-8 output 203 suggested by bentley@ Tue, 14 Oct 2014 04:10:55 -0600 204 loc * exist ** algo * size * imp ** 205 206- allow standalone `.' to be interpreted as an end-of-layout 207 delimiter instead of being thrown away as a no-op roff line 208 reported by Yuri Pankov, Wed 18 May 2011 11:34:59 CEST 209 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 210 211--- missing eqn features ----------------------------------------------- 212 213- The "size" keyword is parsed, but ignored by the formatter. 214 loc * exist * algo * size * imp * 215 216- The spacing characters `~', `^', and tab are currently ignored, 217 see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 2 section 4. 218 loc * exist * algo ** size * imp ** 219 220- Mark and lineup are parsed and ignored, 221 see User's Guide (Second Edition) page 5 section 15. 222 loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** 223 224--- missing misc features ---------------------------------------------- 225 226- italic correction (\/) in PostScript mode 227 Werner LEMBERG on groff at gnu dot org Sun, 10 Nov 2013 12:47:46 228 loc ** exist ** algo * size * imp * 229 230- When makewhatis(8) encounters a FATAL parse error, 231 it silently treats the file as formatted, which makes no sense 232 at all for paths like man1/foo.1 - and which also contradicts 233 what the manual says at the end of the description. 234 The end result will be ENOENT for file names returned 235 by mansearch() in manpage.file. 236 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 237 238- makewhatis(8) for preformatted pages: 239 parse the section number from the header line 240 and compare to the section number from the directory name 241 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 242 243- Does makewhatis(8) detect missing NAME sections, missing names, 244 and missing descriptions in all the file formats? 245 loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** 246 247- clean up escape sequence handling, creating three classes: 248 (1) fully implemented, or parsed and ignored without loss of content 249 (2) unimplemented, potentially causing loss of content 250 or serious mangling of formatting (e.g. \n) -> ERROR 251 see textproc/mgdiff(1) for nice examples 252 (3) undefined, just output the character -> perhaps WARNING 253 loc *** exist ** algo ** size ** imp *** (parser reorg helps) 254 255- kettenis wants base roff, ms, and me Fri, 1 Jan 2010 22:13:15 +0100 (CET) 256 loc ** exist ** algo ** size *** imp * 257 258--- compatibility checks ----------------------------------------------- 259 260- write a configure check for [[:<:]] support and provide some 261 fallback for whatis(1) when it doesn't work; 262 Svyatoslav Mishyn Wed, 17 Dec 2014 11:07:10 +0200 263 264- is .Bk implemented correctly in modern groff? 265 sobrado@ Tue, 19 Apr 2011 22:12:55 +0200 266 267- compare output to Heirloom roff, Solaris roff, and 268 http://repo.or.cz/w/neatroff.git http://litcave.rudi.ir/ 269 270- look at AT&T DWB http://www2.research.att.com/sw/download 271 Carsten Kunze <carsten dot kunze at arcor dot de> has patches 272 Mon, 4 Aug 2014 17:01:28 +0200 273 274- look at pages generated from reStructeredText, e.g. devel/mercurial hg(1) 275 These are a weird mixture of man(7) and custom autogenerated low-level 276 roff stuff. Figure out to what extent we can cope. 277 For details, see http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html 278 noted by stsp@ Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:17:55 +0200 279 reminded by nicm@ Mon, 3 May 2010 09:52:41 +0100 280 281- look at pages generated from ronn(1) github.com/rtomayko/ronn 282 (based on markdown) 283 284- look at pages generated from Texinfo source by yat2m, e.g. security/gnupg 285 First impression is not that bad. 286 287- look at pages generated by pandoc; see 288 https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/master/src/Text/Pandoc/Writers/Man.hs 289 porting planned by kili@ Thu, 19 Jun 2014 19:46:28 +0200 290 291- check compatibility with Plan9: 292 http://swtch.com/usr/local/plan9/tmac/tmac.an 293 http://swtch.com/plan9port/man/man7/man.html 294 "Anthony J. Bentley" <anthonyjbentley@gmail.com> 28 Dec 2010 21:58:40 -0700 295 296- check compatibility with the man(7) formatter 297 https://raw.githubusercontent.com/rofl0r/hardcore-utils/master/man.c 298 299- check compatibility with 300 http://ikiwiki.info/plugins/contrib/mandoc/ 301 https://github.com/schmonz/ikiwiki/compare/mandoc 302 Amitai Schlair Mon, 19 May 2014 14:05:53 -0400 303 304************************************************************************ 305* formatting issues: ugly output 306************************************************************************ 307 308- revisit empty in-line macros 309 look at the difference between "Em x Em ." and "Sq x Em ." 310 Carsten Kunze Fri, 12 Dec 2014 00:15:41 +0100 311 loc *** exist *** algo *** size * imp ** 312 313- a column list with blank `Ta' cells triggers a spurious 314 start-with-whitespace printing of a newline 315 316- In .Bl -column, .It a<tab>"b<tab>c" 317 shows the quotes in groff, but not in mandoc 318 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 319 320- In .Bl -column, 321 .It Em Authentication<tab>Key Length 322 ought to render "Key Length" with emphasis, too, 323 see OpenBSD iked.conf(5). 324 reported again Nicolas Joly via wiz@ Wed, 12 Oct 2011 00:20:00 +0200 325 loc * exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** 326 327- empty phrases in .Bl column produce too few blanks 328 try e.g. .Bl -column It Ta Ta 329 reported by millert Fri, 02 Apr 2010 16:13:46 -0400 330 loc * exist *** algo *** size * imp ** 331 332- .%T can have trailing punctuation. Currently, it puts the trailing 333 punctuation into a trailing MDOC_TEXT element inside its own scope. 334 That element should rather be outside its scope, such that the 335 punctuation does not get underlines. This is not trivial to 336 implement because .%T then needs some features of in_line_eoln() - 337 slurp all arguments into one single text element - and one feature 338 of in_line() - put trailing punctuation out of scope. 339 Found in mount_nfs(8) and exports(5), search for "Appendix". 340 loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp ** 341 342- Trailing punctuation after .%T triggers EOS spacing, at least 343 outside .Rs (eek!). Simply setting ARGSFL_DELIM for .%T is not 344 the right solution, it sends mandoc into an endless loop. 345 reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 346 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 347 348- global variables in the SYNOPSIS of section 3 pages 349 .Vt vs .Vt/.Va vs .Ft/.Va vs .Ft/.Fa ... 350 from kristaps@ Tue, 08 Jun 2010 11:13:32 +0200 351 352- in enclosures, mandoc sometimes fancies a bogus end of sentence 353 reminded by jmc@ Thu, 23 Sep 2010 18:13:39 +0059 354 loc * exist ** algo *** size * imp *** 355 356- a line starting with "\fB something" counts as starting with whitespace 357 and triggers a line break; found in audio/normalize-mp3(1) 358 loc ** exist * algo ** size * imp ** 359 360- formatting /usr/local/man/man1/latex2man.1 with groff and mandoc 361 reveals lots of bugs both in groff and mandoc... 362 reported by bentley@ Wed, 22 May 2013 23:49:30 -0600 363 364--- PDF issues --------------------------------------------------------- 365 366- PDF output doesn't use a monospaced font for .Bd -literal 367 Example: "mandoc -Tpdf afterboot.8 > output.pdf && pdfviewer output.pdf". 368 Search the text "Routing tables". 369 Also check what PostScript mode does when fixing this. 370 reported by juanfra@ Wed, 04 Jun 2014 21:44:58 +0200 371 instructions from juanfra@ Wed, 11 Jun 2014 02:21:01 +0200 372 add a new <</Type /Font>> block to the PDF files with /BaseFont /Courier 373 and change the /Name from /F0 to the new font (/F5 (?)). 374 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 375 376--- HTML issues -------------------------------------------------------- 377 378- <dl><dt><dd> formatting is ugly 379 hints are easy to find on the web, e.g. 380 http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1713048/ 381 see also matthew@ Fri, 18 Jul 2014 19:25:12 -0700 382 loc * exist * algo ** size * imp *** 383 384- jsg on icb, Nov 3, 2014: 385 try to guess Xr in man(7) for hyperlinking 386 387- The tables used to render the three-part page headers actually force 388 the width of the <body> to the max-width given for <html>. 389 Not yet sure how to fix that... 390 Observed by an Anonymous Coward on undeadly.org: 391 http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=20140925064244&pid=1 392 loc * exist * algo ** size * imp *** 393 394- consider whether <var> can be used for Ar Dv Er Ev Fa Va. 395 from bentley@ Wed, 13 Aug 2014 09:17:55 -0600 396 397- check https://github.com/trentm/mdocml 398 399************************************************************************ 400* formatting issues: gratuitous differences 401************************************************************************ 402 403- .Fn reopens a new scope after punctuation in mandoc, 404 but closes its scope for good in groff. 405 Do we want to change mandoc or groff? 406 Steffen Nurpmeso Sat, 08 Nov 2014 13:34:59 +0100 407 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 408 409- In .Bl -enum -width 0n, groff continues one the same line after 410 the number, mandoc breaks the line. 411 mail to kristaps@ Mon, 20 Jul 2009 02:21:39 +0200 412 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 413 414- .Pp between two .It in .Bl -column should produce one, 415 not two blank lines, see e.g. login.conf(5). 416 reported by jmc@ Sun, 17 Apr 2011 14:04:58 +0059 417 reported again by sthen@ Wed, 18 Jan 2012 02:09:39 +0000 (UTC) 418 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 419 420- If the *first* line after .It is .Pp, break the line right after 421 the tag, do not pad with space characters before breaking. 422 See the description of the a, c, and i commands in sed(1). 423 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 424 425- If the first line after .It is .D1, do not assert a blank line 426 in between, see for example tmux(1). 427 reported by nicm@ 13 Jan 2011 00:18:57 +0000 428 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 429 430- Trailing punctuation after .It should trigger EOS spacing. 431 reported by Nicolas Joly Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:49:54 +0100 432 Probably, this should be fixed somewhere in termp_it_pre(), not sure. 433 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 434 435- .Nx 1.0a 436 should be "NetBSD 1.0A", not "NetBSD 1.0a", 437 see OpenBSD ccdconfig(8). 438 loc * exist * algo * size * imp ** 439 440- In .Bl -tag, if a tag exceeds the right margin and must be continued 441 on the next line, it must be indented by -width, not width+1; 442 see "rule block|pass" in OpenBSD ifconfig(8). 443 loc * exist *** algo ** size * imp ** 444 445- When the -width string contains macros, the macros must be rendered 446 before measuring the width, for example 447 .Bl -tag -width ".Dv message" 448 in magic(5), located in src/usr.bin/file, is the same 449 as -width 7n, not -width 11n. 450 The same applies to .Bl -column column widths; 451 reported again by Nicolas Joly Thu, 1 Mar 2012 13:41:26 +0100 via wiz@ 5 Mar 452 reported again by Franco Fichtner Fri, 27 Sep 2013 21:02:28 +0200 453 loc *** exist *** algo *** size ** imp *** 454 An easy partial fix would be to just skip the first word if it starts 455 with a dot, including any following white space, when measuring. 456 loc * exist * algo * size * imp *** 457 458- The \& zero-width character counts as output. 459 That is, when it is alone on a line between two .Pp, 460 we want three blank lines, not two as in mandoc. 461 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 462 463- Header lines of excessive length: 464 Port OpenBSD man_term.c rev. 1.25 to mdoc_term.c 465 and document it in mdoc(7) and man(7) COMPATIBILITY 466 found while talking to Chris Bennett 467 loc * exist * algo * size * imp * 468 469- trailing whitespace must be ignored even when followed by a font escape, 470 see for example 471 makes 472 \fBdig \fR 473 operate in batch mode 474 in dig(1). 475 loc ** exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 476 477************************************************************************ 478* warning issues 479************************************************************************ 480 481- check that MANDOCERR_BADTAB is thrown in the right cases, 482 i.e. when finding a literal tab character in fill mode, 483 and possibly change the wording of the warning message 484 to refer to fill mode, not literal mode 485 See the mail from Werner LEMBERG on the groff list, 486 Fri, 14 Feb 2014 18:54:42 +0100 (CET) 487 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 488 489- warn about attempts to call non-callable macros 490 Steffen Nurpmeso Tue, 11 Nov 2014 22:55:16 +0100 491 Note that formatting is inconsistent in groff. 492 .Fn Po prints "Po()", .Ar Sh prints "file ..." and no "Sh". 493 Relatively hard because the relevant code is scattered 494 all over mdoc_macro.c and all subtly different. 495 loc ** exist ** algo ** size ** imp ** 496 497- warn about "new sentence, new line" 498 loc ** exist ** algo *** size * imp ** 499 500- mandoc_special does not really check the escape sequence, 501 but just the overall format 502 loc ** exist ** algo *** size ** imp ** 503 504- integrate mdoclint into mandoc ("end-of-line whitespace" thread) 505 from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:12:09 +0100 506 from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 18:34:53 +0200 507 from jmc@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 17:45:37 +0059 508 from kristaps@ Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:02:03 +0200 509 (mostly done, check what remains) 510 511- -Tlint parser errors and warnings to stdout 512 to tech@mdocml, naddy@ Wed, 28 Sep 2011 11:21:46 +0200 513 wait! kristaps@ Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:12:52 +0200 514 515- for system errors, use errno/strerror/warn/err 516 517************************************************************************ 518* documentation issues 519************************************************************************ 520 521- mention hyphenation rules: 522 breaking at letter-letter in text mode (not macro args) 523 proper hyphenation is unimplemented 524 525- talk about spacing around delimiters 526 to jmc@, kristaps@ Sat, 23 Apr 2011 17:41:27 +0200 527 528- mark macros as: page structure domain, manual domain, general text domain 529 is this useful? 530 531- mention /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template in mdoc(7)? 532 533- Is all the content from http://www.std.com/obi/BSD/doc/usd/28.tbl/tbl 534 covered in tbl(7)? 535 536************************************************************************ 537* performance issues 538************************************************************************ 539 540- Why are we using MAP_SHARED, not MAP_PRIVATE for mmap(2)? 541 How does SQLITE_CONFIG_PAGECACHE actually work? Document it! 542 from kristaps@ Sat, 09 Aug 2014 13:51:36 +0200 543 544Several areas can be cleaned up to make mandoc even faster. These are 545 546- improve hashing mechanism for macros (quite important: performance) 547 548- improve hashing mechanism for characters (not as important) 549 550- the PDF file is HUGE: this can be reduced by using relative offsets 551 552- instead of re-initialising the roff predefined-strings set before each 553 parse, create a read-only version the first time and copy it 554 loc * exist ** algo ** size * imp ** 555 556************************************************************************ 557* structural issues 558************************************************************************ 559 560- Improve -O suboption parsing. Do it in the main program such that 561 errors can be reported. Pay attention to distinguishing the 562 mandoc(1) and apropos(1) styles of both options. 563 loc ** exist * algo ** size ** imp *** 564 565- Use libz directly instead of forking gunzip(1). 566 Suggested by bapt at FreeBSD among others. 567 568- We use the input line number at several places to distinguish 569 same-line from different-line input. That plainly doesn't work 570 with user-defined macros, leading to random breakage. 571 572- Find better ways to prevent endless loops 573 in roff(7) macro and string expansion. 574 575- Finish cleanup of date handling. 576 Decide which formats should be recognized where. 577 Update both mdoc(7) and man(7) documentation. 578 Triggered by Tim van der Molen Tue, 22 Feb 2011 20:30:45 +0100 579 580- struct mparse refactoring 581 Steffen Nurpmeso Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:50:00 +0200 582 583- Consider creating some views that will make the database more 584 readable from the sqlite3 shell. Consider using them to 585 abstract from the database structure, too. 586 suggested by espie@ Sat, 19 Apr 2014 14:52:57 +0200 587 588************************************************************************ 589* CGI issues 590************************************************************************ 591 592 - Enable HTTP compression by detecting gzip encoding and filtering 593 output through libz. 594 - Sandbox (see OpenSSH). 595 - Enable caching support via HTTP 304 and If-Modified-Since. 596 - Allow for cgi.h to be overridden by CGI environment variables. 597 Otherwise, binary distributions will inherit the compile-time 598 behaviour, which is not optimal. 599 - Have Mac OSX systems automatically disable -static compilation of the 600 CGI: -static isn't supported. 601 602************************************************************************ 603* to improve in the groff_mdoc(7) macros 604************************************************************************ 605 606- use uname(1) to set doc-default-operating-system at install time 607 tobimensch Mon, 1 Dec 2014 00:25:07 +0100 608