The results of pod2html are nice - the program itself is a bit rusty - but that's not my point. I agree that a ToC should be in every doc, but what use is it when running commandline perldoc - you can't click on a chapter in the ToC and jump to it.

Man, writing documentation is harder than writing the code! I recently designed a website to move some of the example usages OUT of my POD to make the POD more accessible, it was getting very large.

I must point out my new discovery of CSS (blush). While designing that website, i was determined to not include the POD docs, because the point of the website was hold content not in the docs. However, when trying to link to other CPAN mirror's, i noticed that none of them were as up-to-date as i would like, and most of them did not turn URL's into links.

So, i ran pod2html on my module and the CSS stylesheets took care of the rest. The result.

Writing documentation is hard! ;)

jeffa

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In reply to (jeffa) 3Re: Who's afraid of the manual? by jeffa
in thread Who's afraid of the manual? by Juerd

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