Patrice Dumas <pertu...@free.fr> writes: > Then, in my opinion, in that case the pod specification should be > changed such that X<..> is not referred to as index entries, but anchors > (or labels). I think that it certainly makes more sense to have labels > than index entries in Pod since there is no command to actually print > the index while there is a good support for any kind of links with L<>. > Still, I think that it should be one or the other since index entries > and anchors are really distinct things.
I believe roffitall in the Perl source does attempt to generate an index. > I guess that candidate converters that could use X<..> are converters to > formats where index entries exist, such as DocBook and maybe LaTeX. And *roff, although admittedly there probably aren't that many people who use Pod::Man to generate printable documents rather than the online man pages. -- Russ Allbery (r...@stanford.edu) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
