[Chicago-talk] Multiple spaces, ascii art, pod

Jay Strauss me at heyjay.com
Thu Feb 5 08:04:21 CST 2004


Yes, I did, before posting, but it still didn't work.  It may have been the
line

       ---------
doing something unintended

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ed Summers" <ehs at pobox.com>
To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Wednesday, February 04, 2004 1:31 PM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Multiple spaces, ascii art, pod


> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 09:43:14AM -0600, Jay Strauss wrote:
> > The problem is all the leading spaces on the "pigs ear", self reference,
> > throw carriage returns in the resulting pod.  Anyone know how to avoid
this?
>
> You should be ok if you start each line of your illustration with some
> whitespace, a la
>
> =head1 Example 1
>
>                    --------
>                    |      |
>                   /|\     |
>     ====================  |
>     |  artist          |  |
>     |------------------|  |
>     |  artistid        |---
>     |  name            |
>     |  parentartistid  |
>     ====================
>
> =cut
>
> You may run into some wrapping issues if the text gets to wide, but that's
> pretty much unavoidable.
>
> //Ed
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