I agree, too and would like to add that any formatter should flag that as an error, especially podchecker.
-Marek -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: David E. Wheeler [mailto:da...@kineticode.com] Gesendet: Sonntag, 26. Juni 2011 06:19 An: Marc Green Cc: pod-people@perl.org Betreff: Re: Handling nested =open directives On Jun 25, 2011, at 1:19 PM, Marc Green wrote: > Given the following erroneous POD, should the formatter interpret the bold line as the start of a text paragraph and indent it (and therefore each line afterwards would also be treated as a text paragraph), or should the formatter keep the bold line at the same indent level as the prior italicized line, and treat the "=item *" as a bulleted list instead of a text paragraph? > > I believe that it should treat it as the former because the bold line is after the nested =open, but the test case for htmlview.pod disagrees -- it treats it as the latter. I agree with you. Best, David
