Re: Tables in PODs

On 09/20/2013 08:43 AM, Nicholas Clark wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 10:30:13AM -0400, Shawn H Corey wrote:
>> Is there any specification for tables in PODs? I haven't been able to
>> find any. Isn't it about time tables were added? I have attached a
>> specification for them for your review.
>
> There is a perl 6 specification for tables. See
>
> https://raw.github.com/perl6/specs/master/S26-documentation.pod
>
> and an implementation for Perl 5, at least for HTML:
>
> https://metacpan.org/module/Perl6::Pod
>
> However, the big question I don't know the answer to is if anyone has
> implemented code to output tables to man pages. man can do tables (very
> nicely), but I know approximately zero roff, so I don't know how easy it
> is (or isn't)

I do know roff.  Looking briefly at the spec, it looks reasonably easy 
to do.
>
> Or how good plain text output for tables is.
>
> Nicholas Clark
>