On Wed, 9 May 2018 09:44:32 -0600
Karl Williamson <[email protected]> wrote:
> which of course is legal, but the * would be output as a star and not
> translated into a bullet, and that is what happens here.
>
A way to get a bullet and text is:
=item E<bull> text
Of course, that only does one level.
> If I had known about this earlier, I would have used it in pods to
> make it look better. So maybe the spec could be changed to
> specifically allow this. Or are there commonly used implementations
> that don't support it?
The POD for Perl 5.6 and early would allow both. Sometime during 5.8 it
was changed so bullets needed a single * and nothing else. `perldoc
perlpod` still isn't clear on this. `perldoc perlpodspec` makes this
clear. `perldoc perlpod` should be consider deprecated.
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Don't stop where the ink does.
Shawn H Corey
