Re: =item 1. Error

[email protected] (Russ Allbery)
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Organization The Eyrie
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> writes:
> On 12-04-26 11:57 AM, Russ Allbery wrote:

>> 1. If the =item tags are numeric, ignore the value of the numbers and just
>>     renumber them.  This is similar to what other markup languages do, but
>>     it has the significant problem of making it a bit more annoying to
>>     document, say, a list of exit status returns, where several numbers are
>>     skipped.

> =over

> =item Z<>42

> The answer to the Ultimate Question.

> =back

Which is why I said "a bit more annoying" rather than "impossible."
However, I still think it's not in the spirit of POD to require that ugly
hack.

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Russ Allbery ([email protected])             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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