NetBSD/gnu/dist/groff/tmac/TODO
wiz 48af41221f Import groff-1.19.1. Changes since 1.19:
Groff
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o The argument of the command line option `-I' is now also passed to troff
  and grops, specifying a directory to search for files on the command line,
  files named in `so' and `psbb' requests, and files named in \X'ps: file'
  and \X'ps: import' escapes.

o If option `-V' is used more than once, the commands will be both printed
  on standard error and run.

Troff
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o Two new read-only, string-valued registers `.m' and `.M' return the
  name of the current drawing and background color, respectively.

o New read-only register `.U' which is set to 1 if in safer mode and set
  to 0 if in unsafe mode.

o An input encoding file for latin-5 (a.k.a. ISO 8859-9) has been added.
  Example use:

    groff -Tdvi -mlatin5 my_file > my_file.dvi

  Note that some output devices don't support all glyphs of this encoding.

o If the `return' request is called with an argument, it exits twice,
  namely the current macro and the macro one level higher.  This is
  used to define a wrapper macro for `return' in trace.tmac.

o For completeness, two new requests have been added: `dei1' and `ami1'.
  They are equivalent to `dei' and `ami', respectively, but the macros
  are executed with compatibility mode off (similar to `de1' and `am1').

o New command line option `-I' to specify a directory for files (both
  those on the command line and those named in `psbb' requests).  This is
  also handled by the groff wrapper program.

o Since version 1.19 you can say `.vs 0'.  Older versions emit a warning
  and convert this to `.vs \n[.V]'.

  This hasn't been documented properly.  Note that `.vs 0' isn't saved in a
  diversion since it doesn't result in vertical motion.

Pic
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o Dashed and dotted ellipses have been implemented.

Tbl
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o New key character `x' to make tbl call a user-defined macro on a table
  cell.  Patch by Heinz-Jürgen Oertel <hj.oertel@surfeu.de>.

Grohtml
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o New option `-j' to emit output splitted into multiple files.

Grops
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o New command line option `-I' to specify a directory to search for files
  on the command line and files named in \X'ps: import' and \X'ps: file'
  escapes.  This is also handled by the groff wrapper program.

o The default value for the `broken' keyword in the DESC file is now 0.

Grolj4
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o A new man page `lj4_font(5)' documents how fonts are accessed with
  grolj4.

o The built-in fonts for LJ4 and newer PCL 5 devices have been completely
  revised, mainly to access as much glyphs as possible.  The provided
  metric files should be compatible with recent PCL 5 printers also.
  Additionally, font description files have been added for the Arial and
  Times New Roman family, the MS symbol, and Wingdings fonts.

Hpftodit
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o Completely revised to handle HP TrueType metric files also.  See the
  hpftodit manual page for more details.

Macro Packages
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o www.tmac: New macro `JOBNAME' to split output into multiple files.

o In mdoc, multiple calls to `.Lb' are now supported in the LIBRARY
  section.
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Support multiple line-spacing.
If we have footnotes in the abstract in RP format, then the footnote
will appear on the cover sheet, which it should, but also on the first
page, which it should not.
Should we allow multi-page cover-sheets?
Warn about automatically numbered footnotes in floating keeps.
When we bring back the footnote overflow at the top of page, it would
be more efficient to avoid diverting it again. (Need to keep track of
footnote height.)
Possibly have a place above which the footnote trap must not be
placed.
Improved indexing, not using tm, controlled by string variable (eg
-dIDX=file.idx).
When changing from multi-column to narrower columns, we could avoid
doing a @super-eject. (This might not be a good idea.)
Think about cutmarks. Possibly implement CM.
Implement thesis Mode (TM, CT).
Implement more V10 features.
Should this
.LP
.rs
.sp \n(.tu
print two pages?