> At Mon, 22 Jul 2002 05:06:25 -0600, Sean Burke ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) spake:
>>At 10:32 2002-07-21 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote: >>[...]From what I see in the man page, I should be able to do the >>following: >> Please click L<here|http://archive.develooper.com> for the >> archives > >[...] Actually, no; that L<text|scheme:...> syntax is expressly >forbidden. >As perlpod says: ><< >Or you can link to a web page: >* L<scheme:...> >Links to an absolute URL. For example, L<http://www.perl.org/>. But note >that there is no corresponding L<text|scheme:...> syntax, for various >reasons. >>> If your perlpod doesn't say that, see >http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?filename=pod%2Fperlpod.pod&action=print >or, the real scary stuff: >http://public.activestate.com/cgi-bin/perlbrowse?filename=pod%2Fperlpodspec.pod&action=print Um...I've looked in the following sources: - perldoc perlpod - perldoc Pod::Html - perldoc pod2html - Your first link, above (I glanced at the real scary stuff and was really scared. :>) ...and I don't see that text. Is that new to the 5.8 documentation? >So instead of anything involving the forbidden L<here|http://...> syntax, >try something like: > The archives are at L<http://archive.develooper.com> Unfortunately, that will work for this simple example, but it doesn't work for something more sophisticated, e.g., when you want to have a word in text lead to a dictionary entry. Dave
