Karl Williamson <[email protected]> writes: > 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.
pod2text (Pod::Text). There have been many proposals over the years for a table representation in POD, but the general consensus has always been that tables are inherently complex enough that the result would be straying away from the "plain" in Plain Old Documentation. Table markup in wikis is probably about as simple as one can get away with and still generate a useful table, and it's still pretty complex. Tables are inherently hard to do properly, and there's an immediate demand for additional features (row spanning, column spanning, headings, etc.). I don't object to supporting it in Pod::Text and Pod::Man, but I'd have to ask someone else to write the initial implementation. I think support in Pod::Man at least would be fairly important before deciding to add tables to Perl's core documentation, but the research on how to use tbl properly is more than I currently have time for. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
