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This Week in Perl 6 (8-14 July 2002)

pdcawley on 2002-07-16T07:08:56

This week's Perl 6 Summary is now up at its new, O'Reilly home. Topics include: a stopgap until Exegesis 5; the latest, executable, version of a Perl 6 grammar and a short profile of Allison Randal.

small problem with conversion of HTML entities

bart on 2002-07-16T12:27:43

I noticed that there's a problem with a likely doubly escaped HTML entity, in the name right underneath Parrot: Copying Arrays.
I obviously don't have a clue on whether this is an operator error, or a bug in the convertor script.

Re:small problem with conversion of HTML entities

pdcawley on 2002-07-16T12:43:26

Well, the .pod included õ, which I assume got converted to õ by pod2html.

There's worse infelicities of grammar, spelling and general writing in there though. I can't wait for Pete Sergeant to get back from holiday, he was/is a great proofreader.

Re:small problem with conversion of HTML entities

rafael on 2002-07-16T13:16:38

You should try with E. pod2html is known to handle this.

FWIW I may try to write yet another pod converter, suitable to generate simple, one-page HTML documents, with the ability to add hyperlinks (and thus not perlpodspec-compliant ;-).

Re:small problem with conversion of HTML entities

bart on 2002-07-16T15:29:45

Well, the .pod included õ, which I assume got converted to õ by pod2html.

Uh-oh. Why don't you just use E<otilde> then. Even pod2text knows how to handle that. It's a nifty feature not enough people know about, not just for producing HTML, but for making POD cross-platform compatible as well.

p.s. I found the whole article a pleasure to read. Nice writing style.

Re:small problem with conversion of HTML entities

pdcawley on 2002-07-17T07:10:05

[fx: scribbles not to himself about how to do escaped entities...]

And thanks for the PS, it's generally been a pleasure to write so far, but it's always great to get positive feedback.