I'm doing some documentation using POD and running into a problem with the =begin text and =end text directives. Basically, they are being ignored. I tried this with two different versions of Perl and go the same results, so I know I'm doing something wrong. Here is an example: 
=being text

some stuff goes here
and more stuff on a second line
and in a few cases, a few more things on a third line

=end text

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When I run pod2html against that, it disappears. However, when I use =for text, it works the way it should. But in most cases, I have several lines and =for text won't work as nicely for that (I could put a =for text on each line, but that doesn't look as nice). Many thanks.

In reply to POD Question by nimdokk

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