Sean M Burke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > But anyway, I sense that I'm missing something here, because of my > almost complete lack of familiarity with *roff: It it merely a cosmetic > thing whether a Pod formatter leaves an unadorned "foo(1)" as is, or > puts it in an appropriate style for a man cross-reference? Or are there > grander non-cosmetic ramifications?
It's purely cosmetic, but not having it is... strange. It's the sort of thing that one does if one wants to generate manual pages, rather than documentation that happens to be written using the -man macro set. :) At least that's my opinion. But that isn't really a persuasive argument against not requiring people wrap it with L<>, which isn't particularly difficult to do. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
