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diff --git a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/troff/TODO b/gnu/usr.bin/groff/troff/TODO deleted file mode 100644 index c8ee6bc..0000000 --- a/gnu/usr.bin/groff/troff/TODO +++ /dev/null @@ -1,136 +0,0 @@ -Give a more helpful error message when the indent is set to a value -greater than the line-length. - -Tracing. This is a pain to implement because requests are responsible -for reading their own arguments. - -Possibly implement -s option (stop every N pages). This functionality -would be more appropriate in a postprocessor. - -Line breaking should be smarter. In particular, it should be possible -to shrink spaces. Also avoid having a line that's been shrunk a lot -next to a line that's been stretched a lot. The difficulty is to -design a mechanism that allows the user complete control over the -decision of where to break the line. - -Provide a mechanism to control the shape of the rag in non-justified -text. - -Add a discretionary break escape sequence. \B'...'...'...' like TeX. - -Think about kerning between characters and spaces. (Need to implement -get_breakpoints and split methods for kern_pair_node class.) - -In troff, if .L > 1 when a diversion is reread in no-fill mode, then -extra line-spacing is added on. Groff at the moment treats line-spacing -like vertical spacing and doesn't do this. - -Suppose \(ch comes from a special font S, and that the current font is -R. Suppose that R contains a hyphen character and that S does not. -Suppose that the current font is R. Suppose that \(ch is in a word -and has a non-zero hyphen-type. Then we ought to be able to hyphenate, -but we won't be able to because we will look for the hyphen only in -font S and not in font R. - -Variant of tm which doesn't write a newline. - -Perhaps the current input level should be accessible in a number register. - -Should \w deal with a newline like \X? - -Have another look at uses of token::delimiter. Perhaps we need to -distinguish the case where we want to see if a token could start a -number, from the case where we want to see if it could occur somewhere -in a number expression. - -Provide a facility like copy thru in pic. - -Fancier implementation of font families which doesn't group fonts into -families purely on the basis of their names. - -In the DESC file make the number of fonts optional if they are all on -one line. - -Number register to give the diversion level. - -Time various alternative implementations of scale (both in font.c and -number.c). On a sparc it's faster to always do it in floating point. - -Devise a more compact representation for the hyphenation patterns trie. - -Have a per-environment parameter to increase letter-spacing. - -Number register to return character height. - -Number register to return character slant. - -Request to set character height. - -Request to set character slant. - -Provide some way to upcase or downcase strings. - -Support non-uniformly scalable fonts. Perhaps associate a suffix with -a particular range of sizes. eg - sizesuffix .display 14-512 -Then is you ask for R at pointsize 16, groff will first look for -R.display and then R. Probably necessary to be able to specify a -separate unitwidth for each sizesuffix (eg. for X). - -Request to copy an environment into the current environment. - -Variant of `.it' for which a line interrupted with \c counts as one -input line. - -Make it possible to suppress hyphenation on a word-by-word basis. -(Perhaps store hyphenation flags in tfont.) - -Possibly allow multiple simultaneous input line traps. - -Unpaddable, breakable space escape sequence. - -Support hanging punctuation. - -In justified text, if the last line of a paragraph is only a little -bit short it might be desirable to justify the line. Allow the user -control over this. - -Have a blank line macro like the end macro. When a blank line macro -has been set, then a blank line causes the blank line macro to be -called rather than doing the equivalent of .sp. - -The pm request could print where the macro was defined. Also could -optionally print the contents of a macro. - -Provide some way to round numbers to multiples of the current -horizontal or vertical resolution. - -Better string-processing support (substring, length, search). - -Generalized ligatures. - -Provide some way for a macro to tell whether it was called with `'' or -`.'. This would be useful for implementing a tracing macro package. - -Request to remove an environment. (Maintain a count of the references -to the environment from the environment table, environment dictionary -or environment stack.) - -Perhaps in the nr request a leading `-' should only be recognized as a -decrement when it's at the same input level as the request. - -Don't ever change a charinfo. Create new variants instead and chain -them together. - -Make it possible to tr characters onto \~. - -Unix troff appears to read the first character of a request name in -copy mode. Should we do the same? - -Number register giving name of end macro. - -More thorough range checking. - -Provide syntax for octal and hexadecimal numeric constants. Perhaps -o#100 and x#7f as per Scheme. Or perhaps PostScript 16#7f. Ambiguity -between whether `c' is treated as digit or scaling indicator. |