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Seen Pod::Wikidoc? (Score:1)
I had the same frustration, and wrote Pod::WikiDoc [cpan.org] so I could write in a Kwiki-like format and have it converted to Pod. Bullets are like this:
I wrote up a lightning talk about it: http://dagolden.com/files/pod-wikidoc.pdf [dagolden.com]
Unfortunately, it doesn't do DT/DD style lists yet, but mostly because I haven't gotten around to adding it. A request for it [cpan.org] has been in the RT queue for a while.
If you're interested in patching in support and using WikiDoc instead of rolling your own system around Markdown, please let me know and we can chat by email.
-- dagolden
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Looking at the POD of your module, I can see you have the exact same beef with POD as I have.
But, IMHO, there are already just too many similar yet slightly different markup languages out there. I don't feel like learning yet another dialect; I'd just end up getting confused. And they all have their own translators. For example, your Wikidoc format is very much like Markdown, with probably the largest differences between them in the format of the links.
Do you think it would be feasible to unify those transl
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I think generalizing the framework -- parsing POD in *.pm for a block of some style and "compiling" it to .pod -- is possible. (I'm currently working on an "inline" style that just appends the proper POD at the end of the *.pm). It would need to have the actual parsing/translating code extracted into either a plugin or a subclass.
There are others thinking about this, too. See, for example, Pod-Weaver [cpan.org]. That's something new from RJBS, but it might prove a better platform for a general tool.
But if you want