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Russ Allbery wrote: > Michael G Schwern <schwern@pobox.com> writes: > >> To answer your question at the top, I write Perl documentation. I use >> perldoc instead of man. Guarantees I get the right version of the page >> and I know its always going to work. >> >> I agree there's no doubt that Perl module style is heavily derived from >> man page standards. It would be very nice to write those down. pod2man >> is the only place I believe anyone has tried. > > I can try to tackle a perlpodstyle documentation page, which I can either > ship with podlators or hand off to the Perl core team as makes the most > sense. I'm somewhat handicapped by not having time to read perl5-porters, > although I do read pod-people. Maybe so we can rapidly get chunks of information in there some sort of wiki? Some sort of podwiki? http://www.daemon.de/PodWiki Which reminds me, I need to finish hacking podwiki to allow pluggable version control systems. > Okay, I can live with that (and modify Pod::Man to strip B<> and I<> > markup in NAME as well). As long as we don't go farther down that path > and allow verbatim paragraphs, subheadings, or move away from the Name - > Description syntax, you're certainly correct that formatters can cope. Agreed. All that is necessary to scrape the semantics out of NAME. -- There will be snacks.Thread Previous | Thread Next