True. One of those cases where the cost of the work-around is vastly cheaper than the fix!
--hsm -----Original Message----- From: Stas Bekman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 15, 2002 9:49 PM To: Hugh S. Myers Cc: Sean M. Burke; Pod-People Subject: Re: Pod::HTML 1.04 end of the line? 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. __________________________________________________________________ Stas Bekman JAm_pH ------> Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide ---> http://perl.apache.org mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://use.perl.org http://apacheweek.com http://modperlbook.org http://apache.org http://ticketmaster.com
