How about the editors coming up with a single, recommended style for all posted code, and intergrating a pre-configured PerlTidy into the message board? If a monk enters Perl code within code tags, he could click a button and have it formatted with PerlTidy.
I've used PerlTidy only three times with intervals of several months, and I always forget that it doesn't have a .pl extenstion and I always try running it at the command prompt without prepending "perl," which doesn't work. I've had other problems, including not being able to use the standard installation procedure because I couldn't get nmake to work on Windows. The installation instructions aren't for beginners, and I figured some beginners might like a PerlTidy web application. Then I thought of the Perl Monks feature.
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Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags. Currently these include the following:
<code> <a> <b> <big>
<blockquote> <br /> <dd>
<dl> <dt> <em> <font>
<h1> <h2> <h3> <h4>
<h5> <h6> <hr /> <i>
<li> <nbsp> <ol> <p>
<small> <strike> <strong>
<sub> <sup> <table>
<td> <th> <tr> <tt>
<u> <ul>
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Snippets of code should be wrapped in
<code> tags not
<pre> tags. In fact, <pre>
tags should generally be avoided. If they must
be used, extreme care should be
taken to ensure that their contents do not
have long lines (<70 chars), in order to prevent
horizontal scrolling (and possible janitor
intervention).
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Want more info? How to link
or How to display code and escape characters
are good places to start.
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