On 04/23/2011 01:09 PM, Karl Williamson wrote:
I don't know how to put a table into a pod. One can simulate it by using
as-is formatting, but it's not very good.
The documentation in perlpod seems to indicate that in
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=begin html
<br>Figure 1.<br><IMG SRC="figure1.png"><br>
=end html
=begin text
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| foo |
| bar |
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^^^^ Figure 1. ^^^^
=end text
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the 'text' part acts as a fall back, and that an html formatter will not
output it, even though it knows how to. Is that the case? If so, that
could be used to put a table into the pod that works for the formatters
that one knows how to specify tables for, and have the as-is function as
a fallback. But how does one guarantee that the format version and the
fallback aren't both output?
It's worse than I thought. I ran some experiments. It appears that the
various formatters don't recognize 'text', and so there's no way to
specify a fall back. Perhaps there is a 'text' formatter. I don't know
what it would be.
There also doesn't appear to be a way to extend the pod language in a
backwards compatible way.
Am I missing something?
