Re: Strange perldoc perldoc
[email protected] (Russ Allbery)
| Newsgroups | perl.pod-people |
|---|---|
| Organization | The Eyrie |
| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
Shawn H Corey <[email protected]> writes: > On 12-04-30 10:52 AM, Smylers wrote: >> 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 > Well, if they wanted it indented, they should have used > =over/=back. That's what it was invented for. ;) I suspect indentation wasn't the goal, but rather preserving formatting. There currently isn't any way in POD to preserve line breaks and allow inline formatting, which gets a little annoying when writing man pages. (There's an undocumented hack in pod2man that actually preserves formatting in this particular situation even without indentation due to an accidental interaction with *roff, but it's not really something to rely upon.) -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>