On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 08:52:44PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Change in Pod::Simple 3.24 released 2013-02-14 (note, I don't maintain > Pod::Simple; pod2man just uses it): > > Added a warning when "=item" types mismatch within one > "=over"/"=back" block. Marc Green/Google Summer of Code, with > assist from RJBS. > > I'm still kind of dubious about it, but it fixes various other problems > where Pod::Simple wasn't figuring out the type of =item lists properly, > and I'm relatively doubtful that upstream will revert it.
Ok, thanks for the summary … > The solution, if you have a numeric item in a list that's otherwise > supposed to be a description list, is to add Z<> before or after the item > value. That will force it to be interpreted as a text label without > changing anything else about the formatting. … and the workaround. Cheers, -- James GPG Key: 4096R/331BA3DB 2011-12-05 James McCoy <james...@debian.org>
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