Re: =item * foo bar

On 05/08/2018 09:57 PM, Dan Book wrote:
> On Tue, May 8, 2018 at 11:32 PM, Karl Williamson=20
> <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
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>     There is code in Pod::Simple that "tolerates" (meaning accepts as a
>     bullet item) this pod line that would normally be illegal by
>     perlpodspec.
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>     I wonder if anyone is around who remembers why this was added.=C2=A0=
 I
>     didn't see details in an internet search
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> I don't think it's illegal by perlpodspec. perlpodspec allows "=3Ditem=20
> [text]" where text is not a * followed by spaces, but it doesn't say=20
> anything about * followed by spaces and then other words.

My reading of that is that this should be treated as

=3Ditem text

which of course is legal, but the * would be output as a star and not=20
translated into a bullet, and that is what happens here.

If I had known about this earlier, I would have used it in pods to make=20
it look better.  So maybe the spec could be changed to specifically=20
allow this.  Or are there commonly used implementations that don't=20
support it?