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From:
Juerd
Date:
December 24, 2004 13:07
Subject:
Re: perlpodtut
Message ID:
20041224171959.GD9912@c4.convolution.nl
Ronald J Kimball skribis 2004-12-24 11:56 (-0500):
> > =item SYNOPSIS 
> > means "see together" and shows example usage.
> A synopsis is a brief summary. The derivation of the word doesn't seem
> useful here.

Overview is more correct, I think. And because in typical POD documents,
the DESCRIPTION part has the summary, I don't think the word "summary"
should be mentioned as the explanation of SYNOPSIS.

I like the derivation.

> > =head2 Lists
> > An example is much clearer than an explanation here.
> >     =head2 Methods
> >     =over 12
> I think that should be =over 4, since the example shows an indent of 4 from
> the heading:
> >       Methods
> >           "new"       Returns a new My::Module object.
> >           "as_string" Returns a stringified representation of the
> >                       object. This is mainly for debugging purposes.

1234                         # Mail quotes
    1234                     # Standard indentation in perlpodtut
        12                   # Indentation for =head2
          1234               # Indentation for =over
              123456789_12   # Indentation for paragraph text
                             # width is number after =over

The list indent is by default 4 in text2pod. This can be overridden with
-i or --indent. This indent has nothing to do with the number after
=over.


Juerd

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