Re: allowing L<text|href>

On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> As for (1), I think that it is actually not difficult, and merely
>> appeared so due to the software involved at the time.  David and I
>> whipped up what I believe is a fairly complete and mostly unambiguous
>> grammar:

We forgot to account for L<< >>. So we need to exclude < and > from any text in L<>, but allow them in L<< >>. Otherwise they're the same.

> I was in favor of this originally and am still in favor of it now.  I
> think we should support it and am happy to find a way of representing the
> results textually in Pod::Text and Pod::Man.  It will produce much nicer
> HTML output.

And I'd be happy to test Pod::Simple's existing implementation of this feature, and make sure it works properly for man pages and plain text. I can probably squeeze some time to do that this week.

Best,

David