Three small bugs?

["Ulrich Spörlein" <uqs@spoerlein.net>]

Hi all,

three nits I ran into:

1. sendmail's -man pages have a header like this:

.TH MAIL.LOCAL 8 "$Date: 2003/10/20 20:26:51 $"
.SH NAME
mail.local
\- store mail in a mailbox
.SH SYNOPSIS

where groff will put the date verbatim in the footer. mandoc however
will put the current date into the footer. It would be nice if this
could be made to take the third argument to .TH literally, if parsing as
a date fails.

2. in our libthr.3 references another lib using .Lb, where trailing
punctuation makes mandoc barf.

.Sh DESCRIPTION
...
has been optimized for use by applications expecting system scope thread
semantics, and can provide significant performance improvements
compared to
.Lb libkse .
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr pthread 3

Please note that this .Lb call is not in the LIBRARY section.

3. Another nit is the .Ud macro, which is used a couple of times like
this:

.Sh BUGS
The
.Nm
utility is
.Ud .

where the trailing punctuation is a) not required but should b) not
break mandoc. The full stop in the source is quite handy, imho, so you
know the sentence ends here.

Which other macros "silently" end a sentence (besides Ud and Bt)?


Cheers,
Uli
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