On Mon, 22 Jul 2002, Sean M. Burke wrote:
> At 11:52 2002-07-22 -0700, Dave Storrs wrote:
>
> Instead, see:
> http://search.cpan.org/doc/JHI/perl-5.8.0/pod/perlpod.pod
Thanks, that's good to know.
> >Is that new to the 5.8 documentation?
>
> Sort of. It's about a year old; it was in 5.7, I think.
Ah, ok. I generally stick with the stable releases, so that
explains why I haven't seen it. Thanks for the info.
> >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.
>
> It may surprise/dazzle/appall you to hear this, but your point has already
> occurred to me.
Mmmm...I'll assume you're being funny here, but just in case I
offended you--my apologies, that wasn't the intent. In point of fact,
what I'm doing (worldbuilding preparatory to writing short stories and
RPGing) needs the ability described above (to have text and a link to
another HTML document); I chose a simple example for my question because I
wanted to keep everyone's bandwidth low.
> But infinite sophistication is not the highest design goal of the Pod format.
True. In any case, the change required to allow it is only about
eight lines; they now exist in my local copy of POD::Html, so my itch is
scratched. I included the patch in my original email; it would thrill me
if it got used, but I won't lose sleep if it isn't (since, as has been
discussed, the whole module is being rewritten anyway).
Dave Storrs
