Re: How can one put a table into a pod

On 04/23/2011 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
> I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using
> as-is formatting, but it's not very good.
>
> The documentation in perlpod seems to indicate that in
> ----------------------------------------------------
> =begin html
>
> <br>Figure 1.<br><IMG SRC="figure1.png"><br>
>
> =end html
>
> =begin text
>
> ---------------
> | foo |
> | bar |
> ---------------
>
> ^^^^ Figure 1. ^^^^
>
> =end text
> ----------------------------------------------------
>
>
> the 'text' part acts as a fall back, and that an html formatter will not
> output it, even though it knows how to. Is that the case? If so, that
> could be used to put a table into the pod that works for the formatters
> that one knows how to specify tables for, and have the as-is function as
> a fallback. But how does one guarantee that the format version and the
> fallback aren't both output?
>

It's worse than I thought.  I ran some experiments.  It appears that the 
various formatters don't recognize 'text', and so there's no way to 
specify a fall back.  Perhaps there is a 'text' formatter.  I don't know 
what it would be.

There also doesn't appear to be a way to extend the pod language in a 
backwards compatible way.

Am I missing something?