Basic HTML version of Foils prepared April 16,1996

Foil 10 An Aside on Perl Pod Notation

From Perl5 and Advanced Perl4 Features Computational Science for Information Age Course CPS616 Material -- April 16,1996. by Geoffrey C. Fox


1 The start of pod information is recognized by a command starting with = in column1:
2 We give HTML approximate equivalents to give intuition!
3 =head1 heading Roughly equivalent to <h1> heading </h1>
4 =head2 heading Roughly equivalent to <h2> heading </h2>
5 =over N Indent by N characters
6 =item text Roughly <li> text
7 =back Roughly </ul>
8 =cut End Pod Sequence
9 One uses I<text> to get italic i.e. <i>text<i> in HTML
10 B<text> for Bold, L<text> for link etc.
11 See perlpod manual page and look at Perl library code which uses pod notation to generate manual

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