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| author | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2014-04-28 14:10:37 -0600 |
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| committer | Karl Williamson <khw@cpan.org> | 2014-05-17 12:33:30 -0600 |
| commit | e023b52d29900981e0c68349b3ec306d85c0716d (patch) | |
| tree | 68c86911e60a05cca1942760c766cf78428e6e1d | |
| parent | 54ff0eaa0a8068c19c4e207390dfd6f0a6249cdd (diff) | |
| download | perl-e023b52d29900981e0c68349b3ec306d85c0716d.tar.gz | |
PATCH: [perl #121630]: perlpod clarification
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1 files changed, 6 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pod/perlpod.pod b/pod/perlpod.pod index 7333fcc013..0a55ffd4f3 100644 --- a/pod/perlpod.pod +++ b/pod/perlpod.pod @@ -296,14 +296,16 @@ module. Examples: =encoding big5 -=back - C<=encoding> affects the whole document, and must occur only once. -And don't forget, when using any other command, that the command lasts up +=back + +And don't forget, all commands but C<=encoding> last up until the end of its I<paragraph>, not its line. So in the examples below, you can see that every command needs the blank -line after it, to end its paragraph. +line after it, to end its paragraph. (And some older +Pod translators may require the C<=encoding> line to be similarly +separated.) Some examples of lists include: |