How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Karl Williamson
I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using as-is formatting, but it's not very good. The documentation in perlpod seems to indicate that in =begin html brFigure 1.brIMG SRC=figure1.pngbr =end html

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Karl Williamson
On 04/23/2011 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using as-is formatting, but it's not very good. The documentation in perlpod seems to indicate that in =begin html brFigure

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Allison Randal
On 04/23/2011 03:12 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: On 04/23/2011 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using as-is formatting, but it's not very good. There also doesn't appear to be a way to extend the pod language in a backwards

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Karl Williamson
On 04/23/2011 06:23 PM, Allison Randal wrote: On 04/23/2011 03:12 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: On 04/23/2011 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using as-is formatting, but it's not very good. There also doesn't appear to be a way

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com writes: It's worse than I thought. I ran some experiments. It appears that the various formatters don't recognize 'text', and so there's no way to specify a fall back. Perhaps there is a 'text' formatter. I don't know what it would be. pod2text

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: That explains how to do it. Thanks. I would like something like this for the core Perl 5 documentation. Are there reasons besides inertia for this to not be shipped with the Perl core? Tuits. If you or someone else would like to propose

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Karl Williamson
On 04/23/2011 09:58 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: Karl Williamsonpub...@khwilliamson.com writes: It's worse than I thought. I ran some experiments. It appears that the various formatters don't recognize 'text', and so there's no way to specify a fall back. Perhaps there is a 'text' formatter. I

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Tom Christiansen
Karl, sorry, I don't know how deal with tables in pod. I always just include pod-embedded =for tbl tables for the books and let the production crew handle it. That's not a solution that works here, though. --tom

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Russ Allbery
Karl Williamson pub...@khwilliamson.com writes: I used to be considered a [nt]roff guru. I would still rather use it than MS Word, but I find the Linux implementations lacking, and actually don't have much need to write documents. Anyway, I could easily write the Pod::Man part (famous last

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread Karl Williamson
On 04/23/2011 10:13 PM, David E. Wheeler wrote: On Apr 23, 2011, at 6:38 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: That explains how to do it. Thanks. I would like something like this for the core Perl 5 documentation. Are there reasons besides inertia for this to not be shipped with the Perl core?

Re: How can one put a table into a pod

2011-04-23 Thread David E. Wheeler
On Apr 23, 2011, at 10:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote: I was thinking that PseudoPod implemented most of what might be needed, and so why not ship that. Its table spec looks quite simple, and perhaps sufficient. +1 tbl's is also pretty simple; it allows, without my looking at the