Re: [patch] remove munging of item from texi2pod.pl

[Eric Christopher <echristo at apple dot com>]

> Actually neither of those is right.  A bullet list should be =item *
> in the generated POD,
> and .IP "\(bu" in the manpage itself.

Aaah. Interesting.

> > From what I can tell the munging at the end of itemx isn't really  
> > needed and from
> > an inspection of the generated pod and man pages afterward the only  
> > changes
> > I see are fixing of cases like the above.
>
> I guess we aren't using any numbered lists, then.  pod2man is, perhaps
> deliberately, stupid about numbered lists - you have to do the
> counting yourself.  (podlators author cc:ed for comment.)  That is
> what the code you took out is trying to do.
>
> After quite a bit of staring, I think the right fix is this patch  
> instead:
>
> ==================================================================
> --- texi2pod.pl    (revision 117491)
> +++ texi2pod.pl    (local)
> @@ -260,7 +260,7 @@ while(<$inf>) {
>    if (defined $1) {
>        $ic = $1;
>    } else {
> -        $ic = '@bullet';
> +        $ic = '*';
>    }
>    $_ = "\n=over 4\n";
>    $endw = "itemize";

This works for me. :)

-eric