Re: pod bugs

[Ilya Zakharevich <ilya@math.ohio-state.edu>]

Tom Christiansen writes:
> 
> People keep putting spaces or tabs on otherwise blank lines in the
> pod files.  For example, notice perllexwarn.  Here's a list of the
> files from the pod directory with violations in them:
> 
>     % cd /usr/local/src/perl5.005_63/pod
>     % tcgrep -l '^[ \t]+$' *.pod
>     perl.pod
>     perlamiga.pod
>     perlembed.pod
>     perlfaq2.pod
>     perlfaq4.pod
>     perlfaq8.pod
>     perlfilter.pod
>     perlfunc.pod
>     perlguts.pod
>     perllexwarn.pod
>     perllocale.pod
>     perlmodinstall.pod
>     perlop.pod
>     perlos2.pod
>     perlpod.pod
>     perlre.pod
>     perltie.pod
>     perltodo.pod
>     perltrap.pod
>     perlxstut.pod
> 
> I think these are probably all mistakes.

My investigations when writing a converter indicated that some of these
are intentional.

  litem11
  litem12

  litem21
  litem22

may look better if you put a space on the empty line, so this becomes
one embedded stuff instead of two.

Ilya

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References to:

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@chthon.perl.com>

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