Re: =item * foo bar

On Wed, 9 May 2018 09:44:32 -0600 Karl Williamson 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 text Of course, that only does

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 > wrote: There is code in Pod::Simple that "tolerates" (meaning accepts as a bullet item) this pod line that would normally be illegal by

Re: =item * foo bar

Karl Williamson writes: > There is code in Pod::Simple that "tolerates" (meaning accepts as a > bullet item) this pod line that would normally be illegal by > perlpodspec. > I wonder if anyone is around who remembers why this was added. I didn't > see details in an

Re: the construct =item * Foo bar

Sean M Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: You've got an excellent to-do list there, to which the only additions that come to mind just now are making sure that E... handling is done according to perlpodspec (probably mostly simple done by using Pod::Escapes), and making sure that Pod::Man and

Re: the construct =item * Foo bar

At 20:54 2002-10-16 +, Smylers wrote: [...]for other people who try to parse it using pod readers that just implement the spec and not your slew of variances. (Similar to how people view their webpages in 'Internet Explorer', it forgives some errors, and so they are unaware of them as they

Re: the construct =item * Foo bar

* Sean 'TorgoX' Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [17 Oct 2002 14:18]: [...] However, I do at times wonder why anyone in their right mind would write /another/ perlpodspec-compliant Pod-parser. [...] I can't think of a motivation that'd be worth the bother of doing it all over again. Curiosity. Or

Re: the construct =item * Foo bar

Sean M Burke [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Andy Lester spotted what I think is the first substantial problem with Pod::Simple and perlpodspec (!!) the other day! It's this: Some people, including Andy, use this construct: =item * Foo bar baz to mean what I always thought one absolutely had