is a module or program that converts Pod to some other format (HTML,
plaintext, TeX, PostScript, RTF). A B<Pod processor> might be a
formatter or translator, or might be a program that does something
-else with the Pod (like wordcounting it, scanning for index points,
+else with the Pod (like counting words, scanning for index points,
etc.).
Pod content is contained in B<Pod blocks>. A Pod block starts with a
before any non-US-ASCII data!), declares that this document is
encoded in the encoding I<encodingname>, which must be
an encoding name that L<Encoding> recognizes. (Encoding's list
-of supported encodings, in L<Encoding::Supported>, is useful here.)
+of supported encodings, in L<Encode::Supported>, is useful here.)
If the Pod parser cannot decode the declared encoding, it
should emit a warning and may abort parsing the document
altogether.
Pod parsers should not, by default, try to coerce apostrophe (') and
quote (") into smart quotes (little 9's, 66's, 99's, etc), nor try to
turn backtick (`) into anything else but a single backtick character
-(distinct from an openquote character!), nor "--" into anything but
+(distinct from an open quote character!), nor "--" into anything but
two minus signs. They I<must never> do any of those things to text
in CE<lt>...> formatting codes, and never I<ever> to text in verbatim
paragraphs.
=item *
-It is up to individual Pod formatter to display good judgment when
+It is up to individual Pod formatter to display good judgement when
confronted with an unrenderable character (which is distinct from an
unknown EE<lt>thing> sequence that the parser couldn't resolve to
anything, renderable or not). It is good practice to map Latin letters
=item Fourth:
The section (AKA "item" in older perlpods), or undef if none. E.g.,
-in L<Getopt::Std/DESCRIPTION>, "DESCRIPTION" is the section. (Note
+in "LE<lt>Getopt::Std/DESCRIPTIONE<gt>", "DESCRIPTION" is the section. (Note
that this is not the same as a manpage section like the "5" in "man 5
crontab". "Section Foo" in the Pod sense means the part of the text
that's introduced by the heading or item whose text is "Foo".)
=item *
Previous versions of perlpod allowed for a C<LE<lt>sectionE<gt>> syntax
-(as in "C<LE<lt>Object AttributesE<gt>>"), which was not easily distinguishable
+(as in C<LE<lt>Object AttributesE<gt>>), which was not easily distinguishable
from C<LE<lt>nameE<gt>> syntax. This syntax is no longer in the
specification, and has been replaced by the C<LE<lt>"section"E<gt>> syntax
(where the quotes were formerly optional). Pod parsers should tolerate
Ut Enim
-But (for the forseeable future), Pod does not provide any way for Pod
+But (for the foreseeable future), Pod does not provide any way for Pod
authors to distinguish which grouping is meant by the above
"=item"-cluster structure. So formatters should format it like so: