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

[Jay Strauss]

Jim,

What would have been really nice is if the user could supply size
information and have boxes built to the desired size.  Now that would have
saved me some time

Jay
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Thomason" <jthomasoniii at yahoo.com>
To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 11:08 AM
Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Multiple spaces, ascii art, pod


> Make sure that you've got empty lines around your =pod
> and =cut lines.
>
> =pod
>
> (stuff)
>
> =cut
>
> And make sure there's no spaces or anything on those
> empty lines. They need to be truly empty.
>
> +
> =pod
> +
> (stuff)
> +
> =cut
> +
>
> Those lines with the plusses up there. I've seen wacky
> pod things w/o the blank line that's really blank.
> Also, maybe try getting rid of the === line, it may be
> getting confused and thinking it's a pod directive.
>
> Of course, I'm rather disappointed with this whole
> thread, since when I saw the subject, I got my hopes
> up when I saw "multiple spaces" and "ascii art" that
> it might be about multiple dimensional ascii art, and
> (you see) I wrote a program to do that a few years
> back.
>
> http://www.jimandkoka.com/hyper.cgi
>
> http://www.jimandkoka.com/hyper.txt for the source
>
> Not terribly easy to understand or well written,
> though.
>
> -Jim.....
> --- Jay Strauss <me at heyjay.com> wrote:
> > I think its, maybe, a paging issue
> >
> > Jay
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Ed Summers" <ehs at pobox.com>
> > To: "Chicago.pm chatter" <chicago-talk at mail.pm.org>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 8:16 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Chicago-talk] Multiple spaces, ascii
> > art, pod
> >
> >
> > > On Thu, Feb 05, 2004 at 08:04:21AM -0600, Jay
> > Strauss wrote:
> > > >        ---------
> > > > doing something unintended
> > >
> > > file: test.pod
> > >
> > > =head1 Example 1
> > >
> > >                    --------
> > >                    |      |
> > >                   /|\     |
> > >     ====================  |
> > >     |  artist          |  |
> > >     |------------------|  |
> > >     |  artistid        |---
> > >     |  name            |
> > >     |  parentartistid  |
> > >     ====================
> > >
> > > =cut
> > >
> > > % pod2text test.pod
> > >
> > > Example 1
> > >                        --------
> > >                        |      |
> > >                       /|\     |
> > >         ====================  |
> > >         |  artist          |  |
> > >         |------------------|  |
> > >         |  artistid        |---
> > >         |  name            |
> > >         |  parentartistid  |
> > >         ====================
> > >
> > > Looks ok to me :)
> > >
> > > //Ed
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