Karl Williamson <[email protected]> writes: > I used to be considered a [nt]roff guru. I would still rather use it > than MS Word, but I find the Linux implementations lacking, and actually > don't have much need to write documents. Anyway, I could easily write > the Pod::Man part (famous last words); but I don't know how widespread > tbl is, or its quality on Linux.
tbl is comfortably universal at this point on any system that uses *roff, I think. I'm not worried about that. Avoiding any GNU-specific features may be a bit harder, but hopefully not too hard. If you know how to write it, that would be great. > I imagine the nroff output of tbl could be used for Pod::Text, again > spoken with no investigation. Pod::Text unfortunately can't rely on tbl or nroff to do rendering, since Pod::Text is designed to convert POD anywhere to something that's immediately readable. Its intention is to be the lowest common denominator output that works on Windows, VMS, etc. The best way to deal with it may be to use a markup for tables that's sufficiently readable that Pod::Text can just dump the markup into the output, at least to start with. If someone feels energetic, they could then improve that. -- Russ Allbery ([email protected]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
