Re: allowing L<text|href>

[email protected] ("David E. Wheeler")
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Dec 1, 2009, at 1:20 PM, John McNamara wrote:

> I think the something like the second second but without the brackets.
> 
> 
>            POD                     | Text Output
>    --------------------------------+--------------------------------
>    L<things|crontab(5)>            | things (crontab(5))
>    L<things|crontab(5)/foo>        | things (crontab(5)/foo)
>    L<Perl Error Messages|perldiag> | Perl Error Message (perldiag)
>    L<perl.org|http://perl.org>     | perl.org (http://perl.org) 

Thanks. That does seem a bit better.

> As for Markdown, I had been planning to add support for it to Pod::Simple::Wiki. BTW, the latter is why I am very much in favour of a L<text|href> syntax. Outputting Wiki text without proper link support is a major deficiency.

Yah. Pod::Simple already supports this, though.

Best,

David
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