G'day Darkwing,

I didn't have Pod::Markdown so I installed it and got the latest version, 3.300. I was able to reproduce your results: so rt:131585 is still outstanding. By the way, I'm using Perl v5.36.0.

That bug was raised on 28-Jan-2020. The last module update was on 1-Nov-2020. So maintenance was at least active at the time that the bug was reported. You could try contacting the module author, Randy Stauner, directly: there are some (links to) contact details in https://metacpan.org/author/RWSTAUNER. (I note that he's a registered monk, rwstauner, but as he hasn't been seen wandering the cloisters in about a decade, contact via /msg is probably a dead-end.)

In terms of a workaround, I'm not really across why you want "=begin markdown" when you're converting to Markdown. Removing both the "=begin" and "=end" paragraphs, and changing "**bold**" to "B<bold>", would appear to provide the output you're looking for. 

$ cat test.pod

=over

=item *

Huhu!

This should be B<bold> using markdown.

=back


$ pod2markdown < test.pod > test.md

$ cat test.md
- Huhu!

    This should be **bold** using markdown.

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Plugging that into https://codebeautify.org/markdown-viewer, I get

If you could provide a few more details regarding your ultimate goal, we may be able to provide an improvement upon my simplistic workaround offered above.

— Ken

In reply to Re: Pod::Markdown: problem with =begin markdown ... =end markdown inside an =item by kcott
in thread Pod::Markdown: problem with =begin markdown ... =end markdown inside an =item by Darkwing

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