Hugh S. Myers wrote:
> Reason I asked was that I just tracked down a long time bug and was
> wondering if I should raise a ruckus or wait out the next new thing. Imagine
> if you will the =begin html/=end html pair. Now think of source code
> converted to html that you want to place between these two. Now think of
> what happens to all of your blank lines! The way the .pm is written,
> division into paragraphs happens before knowledge of the begin/end markers,
> so any formatting that you had involving white space is at risk, since they
> will go away!! Fixing this is as they say non-trivial.

The simple workaround is to do:

perl -pi -e 's|^|  |' example

before inserting it into the POD. This makes the whole code section a 
single para.

I do it everywhere in POD.


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