Re: Escape newlines in POD / (Selectively) don't generate space characters instead

I'm afraid I gave up on pod2html a long time ago. I asked about issues in Apparently inconsistent POD behaviour and Unexpected HTML from POD. Either by /msg or in the chatterbox, someone suggested Pod::Xhtml, which I have used ever since without problems. The only point to consider is that it is not core.

Regards,

John Davies

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Re^2: Escape newlines in POD / (Selectively) don't generate space characters instead by Ionic (Acolyte) on Nov 09, 2020 at 02:16 UTC
The only point to consider is that it is not core. And that's a pretty huge deal-breaker. :/ For instance, my distro (Gentoo) isn't even shipping this conveniently packaged. If the documentation is not for something like a module that is put on CPAN, but internal modules within some wider piece of software and you're targeting a wide range of operating systems, you generally start to avoid non-core modules. Additionally, it looks like Pod::Parser - which Pod::Xhtml depends on for most of the actual content parsing - used to be part of core... until 5.32.0, when it was removed in favor of Pod::Simple. Frankly, I would hope that Pod::Simple showed some progress during the past 10 years. But I know, once bitten …	[reply]
Re^2: Escape newlines in POD / (Selectively) don't generate space characters instead by Anonymous Monk on Nov 08, 2020 at 19:00 UTC
It's been a decade https://metacpan.org/pod2html	[reply]