in reply to Tables in Pod


The Pod Specification doesn't make any allowance for tables.

So unfortunately, you will be constrained to processor specific =for directives or ascii style tables in a verbatim block.

On CPAN eryq uses ascii table like this: 

   Use encoding:     | If your message contains:
   ------------------------------------------------------------
   7bit              | Only 7-bit text, all lines <1000 characters
   8bit              | 8-bit text, all lines <1000 characters
   quoted-printable  | 8-bit text or long lines (more reliable than "8
+bit")
   base64            | Largely non-textual data: a GIF, a tar file, et
+c.

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Which are then converted to Html tables like this using a modified pod2html tool.

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John.

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Re: Tables in Pod
by erics (Initiate) on Oct 23, 2003 at 11:53 UTC

    Okay,thanks for the ideas. I realise that the Pod spec doesn't include tables, but figured it might be a common enough problem that someone might have written a way to achieve them. Was wondering if there was anything obvious available, but there doesn't seem to be. No problem - I'll write a quick perl script myself to pre-process the pod file and extract any tables (written in some XML flavour), parse them, and then reinsert them into the pod doc as a =for block in the output format I'm looking for (html, latex, or plaintext, at present).

    Thanks for your time Eric
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