Sébastien Aperghis-Tramoni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Perl documentation is maintained using the POD format. Unix manual
> pages in nroff format are generated from the POD. Therefore patches
> to the resulting nroff are not very useful. Plus, if what you want is
> to convert the documentation to DocBook, it's better to use a program
> or module which uses the POD as the source, not the nroff. Something
> like Pod::DocBook or using Pod::Simple::XMLOutStream and a small XSLT
> to transform the XML stream to DocBook for example.
>
> » http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-DocBook/
> » http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Simple/
I'm aware of this background. Sometimes, though, errors in generated
pages are traceable to POD errors that should be fixed at that level.
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<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>
