Re: pod checker that finds missing internal links?

On 01/29/2012 05:31 PM, Russ Allbery wrote:
> Patrice Dumas<[email protected]>  writes:
>
>> Then, in my opinion, in that case the pod specification should be
>> changed such that X<..>  is not referred to as index entries, but anchors
>> (or labels).  I think that it certainly makes more sense to have labels
>> than index entries in Pod since there is no command to actually print
>> the index while there is a good support for any kind of links with L<>.
>> Still, I think that it should be one or the other since index entries
>> and anchors are really distinct things.
>
> I believe roffitall in the Perl source does attempt to generate an index.
>
>> I guess that candidate converters that could use X<..>  are converters to
>> formats where index entries exist, such as DocBook and maybe LaTeX.
>
> And *roff, although admittedly there probably aren't that many people who
> use Pod::Man to generate printable documents rather than the online man
> pages.
>

I believe that O'Reilly publishing uses X<> to help generate their 
indices.  I could find out for sure if people desire that info.