On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 7:57 PM, Timothy S. Nelson
wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jon Lang wrote:
>
>> I definitely prefer Markdown's approach to "inline markup" over POD's
>> approach: e.g., _italic_ strikes me as much more legible than
>> I.
>
> That's one of the things that's always annoy
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Timothy S. Nelson
wrote:
> There's a school of thought, common among printing/publishing types, that
>> insists that underline was intended solely to replace italics when they
>> couldn't be represented (i.e. no fonts, as with ASCII terminals and
>> printers). Th
On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
On Feb 12, 2010, at 19:57 , Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jon Lang wrote:
John Gabriele wrote:
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [M
On Feb 12, 2010, at 19:57 , Timothy S. Nelson wrote:
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jon Lang wrote:
John Gabriele wrote:
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown]
(and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right ad
On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Jon Lang wrote:
John Gabriele wrote:
Personally, I've always thought that Perl has a very natural feel to
it, and deserves a doc markup format that's also natural: [Markdown]
(and [Pandoc]'s Markdown has just the right additions, IMO).
[Markdown]: http://daringfireball.net
On Wednesday 10 February 2010 at 13:49, Patrick R wrote:
> Actually, it's worth noting that (a slightly modified version of)
> Perl 5 POD has indeed been used to write several substantial
> books. I'd be very sad if (Perl 6) POD couldn't be easily used
> or converted into something that can be u
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 14:57, Carl Mäsak wrote:
> Again, thanks for your efforts so far. The discussions over the years
> have shown at least me what an ungrateful task it is to be redesigning
> Pod for Perl 6.
>
Yep, thanks, Damian!
Fortunately, doing _whatever_ for Perl 6 seems to be mostly
Damian (>), Carl (>>):
>> Partly that is because documentation isn't at the forefront of things
>> that need to be implemented for Perl 6 to be useful, so it's kind of
>> lagging behind the rest.
>>
>> Partly it's because Damian is the "owner" of that synopsis, and he
>> practices a kind of "drive-
a) How many of the gripes are affected by Damian's new draft ? I found
many of my pet irritations were eliminated by the new one.
b) I suggest that Damian's new draft is committed as S-26 forthwith and
development begin on it.
c) Some of the comments in threads on documentation have been more
