From a09bd744836390e9a7c207446362d04b4e8625bc Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Allison Randal <allison@perl.org>
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 22:21:29 +0000
Subject: [PATCH]  r1522@lilal:  allison | 2005-11-21 13:51:17 -0800  Russ
 Allbery's doc patch for the "preserve whitespace" feature.

---
 lib/Pod/Simple/Subclassing.pod | 8 ++++++++
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/Pod/Simple/Subclassing.pod b/lib/Pod/Simple/Subclassing.pod
index ebad5270..d4ee6943 100644
--- a/lib/Pod/Simple/Subclassing.pod
+++ b/lib/Pod/Simple/Subclassing.pod
@@ -839,6 +839,14 @@ true for an HTML formatter class should omit the
 If you want to set this to true, you should probably also set
 C<no_whining> or at least C<no_errata_section> to true.
 
+=item C<< $parser->preserve_whitespace( I<SOMEVALUE> ) >>
+
+If you set this attribute to a true value, the parser will try to
+preserve whitespace in the output.  This means that such formatting
+conventions as two spaces after periods will be preserved by the parser.
+This is primarily useful for output formats that treat whitespace as
+significant (such as text or *roff, but not HTML).
+
 =back