On Wed, Nov 09, 2022 at 01:47:15PM -0600, Eric Blake wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 02, 2022 at 01:36:26PM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> > > > -=item 4, 5, 6, 7
> > > > +=item S<4>
> > >
> > > The S<> notation seems new here (so it's going to be inconsistent with
> > > the rest of this file, I think).
> >
> > I was going to mention this too. The S<> notation is used to insert
> > non-breaking spaces (for output formats that support it) in a span of
> > text so that it won't be folded over multiple lines. AFAIK it
> > shouldn't have any effect here.
>
> Ah, but it does:
>
> Pod input around line 121: Expected text after =item, not a number
>
> The use of S<> is there to keep the pod formatter happy when =item's
> sole argument would otherwise look like a number instead of arbitrary
> text.
Oh indeed! I had forgotten about this weirdness of pod.
$ cat test.pod
=over 4
=item 2
A
=item 3
B
=back
$ pod2text test.pod
2 A
test.pod around line 7: Expected text after =item, not a number
3 B
Rich.
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