Re: The eternal "use XXX instead of POD" debate (was: Project Start: ?Section 1)

On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:15:23PM -0700, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> 
> That's vaguely like the verbatim-formatted stuff that I've been 
> experimenting with lately, where the second line here:
>     flock COUNTER, LOCK_EX;
> #:                 ^^^^^^^
> bolds the characters above the "^".

I'd like to see an easy way to declare that a verbatim block
(or all following verbatim blocks till told otherwise?) should
be parsed for formatting code like B, I, E, X, and L. The loss of
vertical alignment in the pod source would rarely be a concern.

Tim.