Johan Vromans <jvrom...@squirrel.nl> writes: > Just what we need... more obscure trickery.
> Why not replace "=item *" by something friendly like "=bullet" ? It's an interesting thought, since one can add new POD commands with backward compatibility. I think in retrospect it's clear that the automatic list type detection from the contents of =item wasn't a great idea, and we would have been better off with =bullet, =number, and =desc. > Also quite stupid: > =over 4 > =item 1. > First item. > =item 1. > Another item. > =back I think this used to work and now doesn't work in a kind of weird and annoying way. I seem to recall that this was discussed before, but the current state doesn't make sense to me: either auto-number and warn, or take what the user entered verbatim, but taking what the user entered verbatim and then warning is strange. But I probably haven't thought through it. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
