> Okay, that makes sense.  Nice and straightforward.
> So then the new logic for the "What's the title method" would just need to 
> tolerate "=head1 blah blah blah whatever (NAME)" as a variant of "=head1 
> NAME", i.e., both meaning "the next paragraph will be the short title of 
> this document".
> Then I could make a "What are ALL the titles" method that wouldn't just 
> stop at the first NAME/blah(NAME) thing, but would read the whole document 
> looking for all such things.
> 
> And, in fact, I could make these just specific ('NAME'-specific) cases of 
> what's-the-first-FOO / what're-all-the-FOOs methods, for arbitratry values 
> of FOO (like 'NAME', 'DESCRIPTION', 'AUTHOR', etc.).  Sound good?

Yup.

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