On December 2, 2002 05:53 am, Lutz Jaenicke via RT wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 10:55:26AM +0100, Alain Guibert via RT wrote:
> >     There is just an alert at some point:
> > | installing man3/engine.3
> > | ../../util/pod2man.pl: Unrecognized pod directive in paragraph 34
> > | of engine.pod: head3 ../../util/pod2man.pl: Unrecognized pod
> > | directive in paragraph 39 of engine.pod: head3
> > | ../../util/pod2man.pl: Unrecognized pod directive in paragraph 59
> > | of engine.pod: head3 ../../util/pod2man.pl: Unrecognized pod
> > | directive in paragraph 62 of engine.pod: head3
> > | ../../util/pod2man.pl: Unrecognized pod directive in paragraph 69
> > | of engine.pod: head3 ../../util/pod2man.pl: Unrecognized pod
> > | directive in paragraph 73 of engine.pod: head3
> >
> >     But the installation continues, and "man engine" is there after.
>
> Hmm. According to http://www.perldoc.com/perl5.6/pod/perlpod.html
> there only exist =head1 and =head2, so the complaint is correct :-)
>
> Geoff???

Hmm, bollocks. I can't confess to having studied the perlpod documentation 
on this - I merely wondered if I could get away with a third level of 
header nesting and it "just worked" on my installation (ie. I got no 
warnings/errors and the resulting man-page rendered fine). Is this a 
limitation in (some versions of) 'pod2man' or is it a safety measure 
because of limitations in (some versions of) 'man'? It seems a shame to 
have to ditch something that works if it's a limitation in the version of 
the conversion tool being used. Lutz, you are the doc-god, what do you 
think we should do? I'm obviously the first to want a third level of 
header nesting, but I may not be the last ...

Cheers,
Geoff

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to both think and fear at the same time.

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