Niko Tyni <[email protected]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 22, 2009 at 11:24:53AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote:
>> I'm a little reluctant to change this because pod2man has been using >> italics since before I started to maintain it. man-pages(7) is a good >> reference, though, since it's a concrete style guide with some general >> weight behind it, although the BSD style guide is also fairly concrete >> and doesn't add markup. > If there are non-trivial differences between platform-specific style > recommendations, how about making the output 'dialect' configurable? Or > do you think that's too much bloat? > I can see problems with functional differences (like enabling '--utf8') > between dialects, but for purely cosmetic things like bold vs. italic > this could work. Hm, that's not a bad idea, although I'm not sure to what degree it will address the original concern. I think most man pages generated by pod2man are generated as part of the build process for Perl or for Perl modules, where there isn't a good place to add additional options. It would work for people running it by hand who wanted a different behavior, though. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
