On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 07:19:13 -0800 (PST), A . Bergman wrote: > Has this been discussed on the pod-people?
A while ago, I wrote a rather long "intro to perl" training manual using a word processor. The problem I kept running into was keeping the code samples and execution output up to date. I had to resort to cut-and-paste approaches to get code samples and execution output into the document. I want to rewrite the training manual, and this time I want to make it easy on myself. I figured I'd create a way to have code samples and output embedded in a document such that the cut and paste is automated in some way. And, it would be a nice bonus if people reading the document could somehow easily run a code example from the document and see what it does. So, I used POD as a base for the document and will add some kind of extension so that code examples, execution output, and demonstrations would be supported. The tarball available on CPAN is an alpha release of a POD viewer. Once I get all the POD functionality squared away, I'll add the other functionality. Greg
