documentation asked and pod formatter to texinfo?

2011-12-05 Thread Patrice Dumas
Hello, Unless I have missed something, seems that Pod::Parser is not used much, and pod formatting used within perl uses Pod::Simple and most formatter have switched to using Pod::Simple except for the formatter to DocBook. But this information is not that easy to figure out. Maybe there should

Re: pod checker that finds missing internal links?

2012-01-28 Thread 'Patrice Dumas'
On Sat, Jan 28, 2012 at 03:38:48PM +0100, Marek Rouchal wrote: podchecker _does_ detect wrong internal links. If you put any of the following links in the POD you quoted below, podchecker (as of Pod-Parser-1.38 and higher) will flag it as an error: L/open FILEHANDLE,MODE,EXPRESSION

Re: pod checker that finds missing internal links?

2012-01-29 Thread 'Patrice Dumas'
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 09:26:31AM +0100, Marek Rouchal wrote: So your issues are with pod2html, less with Pod::Checker. Which pod2html are you using? Likely the issues with hyperlinks should be fixed there. My feeling is that it is pod2html which is right and Pod::Checker should find a

Re: Is Pod::Simple::POD worth pursuing?

2013-05-22 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 04:33:14PM -0700, John SJ Anderson wrote: * Is this a worthwhile idea? (The recent How do I get Pod::Simple to extract pod thread suggests the answer is yes.) * Should I be working on this as a branch of Pod::Simple with the idea it could be included there eventually?

Re: [feature] Add =image to perl pod #18169

2020-10-04 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sun, Oct 04, 2020 at 05:11:35PM +0200, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > Hello > > Thank you all for review, it is clear that some things I wasn't focused at > don't fall in as gracefully as I wanted. So it seems that P<> neither serves > any good as an inline image anchor, nor versatile enough to

Re: [feature] Add =image to perl pod #18169

2020-10-01 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 01:44:38PM +0200, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > The proposal is that title and image are always shown together, or always > ignored together. For html and others, P<> doesn’t need to be wrapped in > =begin, that’s the whole point of it to not care about specific format, and >

Re: [feature] Add =image to perl pod #18169

2020-10-01 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Thu, Oct 01, 2020 at 11:35:45AM +0200, Dmitry Karasik wrote: > Hello, > > I've proposed addition of images to pod, as discussed at [1], and would like > to > ask for some more discussion here as well The idea is rather simple, to > introduce a P<> tag in two forms, P and P, that would > get

Re: POD formatter version comments

2024-03-15 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Fri, Mar 15, 2024 at 08:43:08AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Does anyone want to make an argument for keeping this in the spec? If > not, I'm going to submit a PR to Perl to remove this whole bullet point. > (The note about including errors as comments is not wrong, but I don't > think it

Re: Increasing podlators Perl dependency to 5.12

2024-03-17 Thread Patrice Dumas
On Sat, Mar 16, 2024 at 06:22:13PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I wanted to provide some advance notice that I plan to increase the > minimum Perl dependency for podlators (Pod::Man and Pod::Text) to 5.12 > from 5.10 in the next release. Perl 5.10 is still used on solaris 11,