Pod::Html does quite a few bad things with lists. (for instance, you can't start an item with a number, or it'll assume it's a numbered list, and trash the number entirely .... and it does really horrible things with nested lists, and even the lists it builds for the table of contents)

I tried mailing a patch to Tom Christiansen a few months back, but I don't know if some spam filter ate it, or if there's some better way to submit it, so it was ignored for not following proper procedures (I looked through the perl.org site, and couldn't find any mention of how to submit fixes, so I just mailed the listed author on the module)

Anyway, here's the patch and what it's supposed to fix

In reply to Re: How to do bullet lists and numbered lists in POD? by jhourcle
in thread How to do bullet lists and numbered lists in POD? by eyepopslikeamosquito

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