I am enjoying the Perl 6 community and contributing tidbits to the docs. In working with the docs, in Pod 6, I think I see some worthwhile Perl 6 Pod projects that interest me, and I would appreciate any comments. (Note that the new program and module names are kind of lame and definitely need improvement.)
Pod::To::HTML =========== This is an existing module that needs to handle existing pod better. For example, pod format codes are not recognized in tables. Perl 6 pod ======== Perl 6 pod could be enhanced to allow finer-grained control over table formatting and some other structuresvsuch as lists. Perhaps JSON could be incorporated into current p6pod structures to allow easy implementation of such details as well as new features. p6pod2man [needs a better name!] ========================== As far as I know there is no equivalent to Perl 5's pod2man. The existing perl6/doc/bin/p6doc may serve as the executable with the added translation capability. documentation for the Perl 6 executable ============================== In the main docs I propose another top-level tab to cover various aspects of the Perl 6 executable itself. This is the page I propose to change http://doc.perl6.org so it shows instead the topics Perl 6 | Language | Types | Routines I am currently working on modifying htmlify.p6 (and other files) to that end. Pod::To::PDF ========== Nice to have. It could use something like p6pod2latex as an intermediate filter and then use popular LaTeX tools to generate the PDF. Best regards, -Tom #perl6: tbrowder
