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authorJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-09-25 09:27:41 +0000
committerJason McIntyre <jmc@cvs.openbsd.org>2003-09-25 09:27:41 +0000
commit966b373664aa38d38a682e503a56a277d490ad9a (patch)
tree2f579503673fd1a63a1c4544d2203fc7d66b4198 /share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
parent6b3c54e1435a0a904ebb541942c4e1d549228729 (diff)
update BUGS; this section is getting bigger rather than smaller :(
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diff --git a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7 b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
index d6682212c69..09b37d44e52 100644
--- a/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
+++ b/share/man/man7/mdoc.samples.7
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.45 2003/09/02 19:08:21 jmc Exp $
+.\" $OpenBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.46 2003/09/25 09:27:40 jmc Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: mdoc.samples.7,v 1.5 1996/04/03 20:17:34 jtc Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1990, 1993
@@ -3226,21 +3226,28 @@ template for writing a man page
.Xr troff 1 ,
.Xr mdoc 7
.Sh BUGS
-Undesirable hyphenation on the dash of a flag
-argument is not yet resolved, and causes
-occasional mishaps in the
-.Sx DESCRIPTION
-section.
-(line break on the hyphen).
+Undesirable hyphenation on the dash of a macro argument is not yet resolved,
+and can cause line break on the hyphen.
.Pp
-Predefined strings are not declared in documentation.
+A
+.Ql \&.Pp
+before a display causes a double vertical space in PostScript output.
.Pp
-Section 3f has not been added to the header routines.
+No macro yet exists to cause a line break without inserting a vertical space
+(such as troff's
+.Ql \&.br
+macro).
.Pp
-.Ql \&.Nm
-font should be changed in
-.Sx NAME
-section.
+.Ql \&.Dt
+does not allow arbitrary arguments, and certainly should.
+.Pp
+Arbitrary arguments to
+.Ql \&.Os
+must be double quoted.
+.Pp
+The
+.Ql \&.At
+macro cannot handle punctuation.
.Pp
.Ql \&.Fn
needs to have a check to prevent splitting up
@@ -3260,6 +3267,8 @@ to the right).
.Pp
The list and display macros do not do any keeps
and certainly should be able to.
+.Pp
+Section 3f has not been added to the header routines.
.\" Note what happens if the parameter list overlaps a newline
.\" boundary.
.\" to make sure a line boundary is crossed: