Stas Bekman wrote:
>
> I believe XML is a way too heavy for docs writing. Why one will want to
> get a messy source code, when you can get away with a minimalistic POD.
> Just look at the Guide's source code and look at the generated PDF --
> isn't it great? I love POD. And if you want more than POD provides, it
> takes secs to add the new functionality.
I agree. XML has a nice "cool" factor, but I want to make this guide as
simple as possible.
> As for POD, I've already extended the POD in POD2HTML (which was buggy
> anyway). For example, I've added new directives for embedding images,
> linking to files and more... I don't afraid to extend the POD since I can
> easily convert all my extended pod files back into the standard POD
> format. So if you want a syntax for tables, this should be easy to add,
> like:
>
> =table args
>
> =tr args
>
> =td args
>
> ...
>
> =/td
>
> =/tr
>
> =/table
That might be a useful extension. How do you do tables now? "=for html"?
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