Re: =item * foo bar

On Wed, 9 May 2018 09:44:32 -0600
Karl Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:

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

A way to get a bullet and text is:

=item E<bull> text

Of course, that only does one level.

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

The POD for Perl 5.6 and early would allow both. Sometime during 5.8 it
was changed so bullets needed a single * and nothing else. `perldoc
perlpod` still isn't clear on this. `perldoc perlpodspec` makes this
clear. `perldoc perlpod` should be consider deprecated.


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