Your example says 'being' instead of 'begin', but that probably isn't your real problem. =begin lets you specify a block of data that will be passed directly to the interpreter to either display or ignore. In the case of pod2html, it only displays =begin sections that are labeled 'html' or 'pod2html', all other formats are ignored.

You could always try this:

=begin html
<PRE>
text.
text.
text.
</PRE>
=end
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