I don't think that it is configurable. When I ran into this, and another problem, in the past I modified the Pod::Html code. The sub in question is process_puretext().

Of course, sublassing the module would be a better option. :-)

Update: The other problem, that I mention above, was the way that function descriptions in =head* are treated differently depending on the number of parameters that they have. For example here is some simple pod and the output from pod2html: 

    =head1 NAME

    Test - Some pod

    =head2 function1()

    Some text here.

    =head2 function2($foo)

    Some text "here".

    =head2 function3($foo, $bar)

    Some text here.

    =head2 function4($foo,$bar)

    Some text here.

    =cut

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NAME

Test - Some pod

function1()

Some text here.

function2($foo)

Some text ``here''.

function3($foo, $bar)

Some text here.

function4($foo,$bar)

Some text here.

For some, possibly valid reason the third function isn't given code tags. This wasn't what I wanted however, so I modified the Pod::Html code to get the same behaviour in each of the above cases.

--
John.

In reply to Re: Anyone a wiz with Pod::HTML ? by jmcnamara
in thread Anyone a wiz with Pod::HTML ? by John M. Dlugosz

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