On Mon, Mar 23, 2009 at 10:25:55AM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > 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.
Well, a logical next step would be to make the default pod2man run-time dialect configurable at podlators build time, and the one after that would be for the build scripts to choose the default based on $^O and the like. -- Niko -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
