Re: `=item 1. Text` Doesn't Produce Ordered List Item

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 05:00:43PM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote:
> * "David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]> [2010-07-20T16:40:18]
> > > perlpodspec says that the former is an unordered list and the latter is a
> > > description list.  I think pod2html is wrong here.
> > 
> > If so, my next question would be: how dependent are people on this? Is it
> > something we want to consider adding to the spec? Or should pod2html be
> > changed to remove this interpretation?
> 
> I would like to see pod2html (as a Pod::Html-based thing) be replaced with
> Pod::Simple, which should fix this.  Noncompliant documents should be fixed.

I would love to see Pod::Html (and Pod::Checker) replaced with Pod::Simple
based equivalents. But I don't have the time to do this.

http://news.perlfoundation.org/2010/07/2010q3-call-for-grant-proposal.html
might be useful for others, if time == money (or they can define an exchange
rate between the two)

Nicholas Clark