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[ANN] Update to http://perldoc.perldrunks.org

jj on 2005-01-18T20:10:57

Hi,

I've just released an update to , which improves the look of the HTML pages, including syntax highlighting of all Perl code examples.

A complete archive of the site can be downloaded for off-line use at (~14M file). If you've not seen before, it contains the complete Perl 5.8.6 documentation set in both HTML and PDF formats. Please read the project page at for a full list of features.

Please send any comments or bug reports to jj@jonallen.info.

Cheers,

JJ

Nice job!

WebDragon on 2005-01-19T22:34:29

Quite tastefully done, if I say so myself. I'd love it if Tk::Pod could do something like this on the fly, Or Alan Fry's lovely Pod::Pdf.

Re:Nice job!

jj on 2005-01-20T09:56:16

Thanks!

BTW, if you're interested in PDF conversion of Pod, have a look at http://perl.jonallen.info/projects/pod2pdf. I found several bugs in the Pod::Pdf module but couldn't get in touch with the author, so I've re-written it using Pod::Parser and PDF::API2.

oopsie

bart on 2005-01-22T00:10:18

I found a place where the heuristic for the syntax highlighting goes wrong. Look at perlop, "Quote and Quote-like Operators", the table listing "\U" and related escape sequences. The words "next", "char" and "case" are highlighted, and they shouldn't be, as this is just a table with plain text.

feature request

bart on 2005-01-22T23:55:39

Can I ask for a small addition? Currently, in the links on the left, Under "Reference", you have links to "Language", "Functions", "Variables", "Pragma's", .... I'd like you to add "Operators" to that list.

I guess that perlfunc, perlop and perlvar are the most often perused perl docs for me. Whatever keyword I can't find in perlfunc, I look up in perlop. Therefore, to me anyway, they belong on the same level.

Re:feature request

jj on 2005-03-02T22:10:36

Thanks Bart, this has now been implemented.