On Nov 30, 2009, at 4:41 PM, Russ Allbery wrote: >> As for (1), I think that it is actually not difficult, and merely >> appeared so due to the software involved at the time. David and I >> whipped up what I believe is a fairly complete and mostly unambiguous >> grammar:
We forgot to account for L<< >>. So we need to exclude < and > from any text in L<>, but allow them in L<< >>. Otherwise they're the same. > I was in favor of this originally and am still in favor of it now. I > think we should support it and am happy to find a way of representing the > results textually in Pod::Text and Pod::Man. It will produce much nicer > HTML output. And I'd be happy to test Pod::Simple's existing implementation of this feature, and make sure it works properly for man pages and plain text. I can probably squeeze some time to do that this week. Best, David
