Re: Strange perldoc perldoc

[email protected] (Smylers)
Newsgroups perl.pod-people
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Ricardo Signes writes:

> * Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> [2012-04-30T10:18:57]
> 
> > I just ran `perldoc perldoc` and got this:
> > 
> > SYNOPSIS
> >            B<perldoc> [B<-h>] [B<-D>] [B<-t>] [B<-u>] [B<-m>]
> > […]
> >
> > Why is there mark-up in these verbatim paragraphs?
> 
> Funny.  My guess is that the author was targeting Pod::Simple::XHTML
> which, as was recently discussed, strangely chooses to display
> verbatim blocks not-verbatim by default.

It didn't used to be verbatim, when the bold formatting was originally
added. That Pod got indented in this Dev release a few months ago:
https://metacpan.org/diff/file/?target=BDFOY/Pod-Perldoc-3.15_10/lib/perldoc.pod&source=BDFOY/Pod-Perldoc-3.15_09/lib/perldoc.pod

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