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