On 17 Mar 2005 at 13:11, Schupp Roderich (extern) Com MD PD SWP 2 wrote:

>  Alan Stewart wrote:
> 
> > > What about bracketing the whole pp stuff into
> > > 
> > > =begin pp
> > > 
> > > ...pp information, format TBD...
> > > 
> > > =end pp
> > I was also thinking that way. However, =head2 shows up in the 
> > output of translators like pod2html, whereas =begin and =for 
> > do not show up. Treating that as a feature, I was thinking 
> 
> It IS a feature: a podlator that doesn't know about FOO
> is supposed to ignore all stuff between "=begin FOO" and
> "=end FOO" or between "=for FOO ..." and the next POD directive.
> 
> I think it's OK then that pod2html won't show this stuff
> as it is of no value for the script's user. 
> 
> Cheers, Roderich

I meant treating the way translators behave as a pp pod feature. If the rest of 
your 
pod is traditional pod that provides usage instructions, you probably do want 
to hide 
it with =begin. If you use pod like I do (and I think Robin also), the pod is 
configuration management documentation, and you want the pp pod included with 
=head2.

We should always provide for TMTOWTDI :)

Alan

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