Fix code formatting bug in the ncdc man page

Makefile

@@ -108,12 +108,14 @@ ${FETCH}: dat/%:
 # There is a 'pod2markdown' program, but going through HTML with a little bit
 # of Perl magic tends to give better results, if only because definition lists
 # are properly converted this way and I have more control over links.
+# The final pass through perl is to fix a pandoc bug where a code block as the
+# first thing inside a definition does not survive a round-trip.
 ${POD_MD}: dat/%.md: dat/%.pod mkpod.pl
 	@echo "POD    $*"
 	@cat "$<" | ./mkpod.pl |\
-		pandoc -f html -t markdown -s -o "$@" \
-			--metadata title="${shell for i in ${PAGES}; do case "$$i" in "$*.pod "*) echo "$$i" | sed -E 's/[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +//';; esac; done}"
-	@rm -f pod2htmd.tmp pod2html.tmp
+		pandoc -f html -t markdown -s \
+			--metadata title="${shell for i in ${PAGES}; do case "$$i" in "$*.pod "*) echo "$$i" | sed -E 's/[^ ]+ +[^ ]+ +//';; esac; done}" |\
+		perl -e '$$/=undef; print (scalar(<>) =~ s/:   ([^\s].*)\n        ([^\s].*)/:       $$1\n        $$2/gr)' >"$@"
 
 
 ${CHANGES_MD}: dat/%.md: dat/%.log mkchangelog.pl

mkpod.pl

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ $p->parse_file(\*STDIN);
 
 # Some post-processing to improve the pandoc-generated markdown
 $html =~ s/^  //mg;
-$html =~ s/<code>  //g;
+$html =~ s/<code>  /<code>/g;
 $html =~ s/<li><p>/<li>/g;
 
 print $html;