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From:
Father Chrysostomos
Date:
July 24, 2011 13:58
Subject:
nroff indent
Message ID:
A2DA1B4C-6AAB-468A-8376-79A337C69A92@cpan.org
When I view man pages generated from POD on OS X, there is a 7-space indent:

PERL(1)                Perl Programmers Reference Guide                PERL(1)

NAME
      perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
<-----> 7 spaces

t/podcheck.t is assuming an 8-space nroff indent when checking for long verbatim lines. Not realising that, I programmed the 7-space indent into autodoc.pl.

Does that 8-space indent actually occur anywhere, or was it just an assumption?


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