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9741dab0 1# Pod::Man -- Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
9741dab0 2#
55595e83 3# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
b7ae008f 4# Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
5# Substantial contributions by Sean Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
9741dab0 6#
3c014959 7# This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
9741dab0 8# under the same terms as Perl itself.
9#
b84d8b9e 10# This module translates POD documentation into *roff markup using the man
11# macro set, and is intended for converting POD documents written as Unix
12# manual pages to manual pages that can be read by the man(1) command. It is
13# a replacement for the pod2man command distributed with versions of Perl
14# prior to 5.6.
c9abbd5d 15#
16# Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
17# maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
18# me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
19# standard Perl mailing lists.
9741dab0 20
3c014959 21##############################################################################
9741dab0 22# Modules and declarations
3c014959 23##############################################################################
9741dab0 24
25package Pod::Man;
26
b84d8b9e 27require 5.005;
9741dab0 28
9741dab0 29use strict;
30use subs qw(makespace);
31use vars qw(@ISA %ESCAPES $PREAMBLE $VERSION);
32
b7ae008f 33use Carp qw(croak);
34use Pod::Simple ();
35use POSIX qw(strftime);
36
37@ISA = qw(Pod::Simple);
9741dab0 38
2504ae52 39$VERSION = '2.20';
b7ae008f 40
41# Set the debugging level. If someone has inserted a debug function into this
42# class already, use that. Otherwise, use any Pod::Simple debug function
43# that's defined, and failing that, define a debug level of 10.
44BEGIN {
45 my $parent = defined (&Pod::Simple::DEBUG) ? \&Pod::Simple::DEBUG : undef;
46 unless (defined &DEBUG) {
47 *DEBUG = $parent || sub () { 10 };
48 }
49}
5cdeb5a2 50
b7ae008f 51# Import the ASCII constant from Pod::Simple. This is true iff we're in an
52# ASCII-based universe (including such things as ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8), and is
53# generally only false for EBCDIC.
54BEGIN { *ASCII = \&Pod::Simple::ASCII }
9741dab0 55
b7ae008f 56# Pretty-print a data structure. Only used for debugging.
57BEGIN { *pretty = \&Pod::Simple::pretty }
9741dab0 58
3c014959 59##############################################################################
b7ae008f 60# Object initialization
3c014959 61##############################################################################
9741dab0 62
b7ae008f 63# Initialize the object and set various Pod::Simple options that we need.
64# Here, we also process any additional options passed to the constructor or
65# set up defaults if none were given. Note that all internal object keys are
66# in all-caps, reserving all lower-case object keys for Pod::Simple and user
67# arguments.
68sub new {
69 my $class = shift;
70 my $self = $class->SUPER::new;
71
0e4e3f6e 72 # Tell Pod::Simple not to handle S<> by automatically inserting &nbsp;.
b7ae008f 73 $self->nbsp_for_S (1);
74
75 # Tell Pod::Simple to keep whitespace whenever possible.
76 if ($self->can ('preserve_whitespace')) {
77 $self->preserve_whitespace (1);
78 } else {
79 $self->fullstop_space_harden (1);
80 }
81
82 # The =for and =begin targets that we accept.
83 $self->accept_targets (qw/man MAN roff ROFF/);
84
85 # Ensure that contiguous blocks of code are merged together. Otherwise,
86 # some of the guesswork heuristics don't work right.
87 $self->merge_text (1);
88
89 # Pod::Simple doesn't do anything useful with our arguments, but we want
90 # to put them in our object as hash keys and values. This could cause
91 # problems if we ever clash with Pod::Simple's own internal class
92 # variables.
93 %$self = (%$self, @_);
94
bc9c7511 95 # Send errors to stderr if requested.
96 if ($$self{stderr}) {
97 $self->no_errata_section (1);
98 $self->complain_stderr (1);
99 delete $$self{stderr};
100 }
101
b7ae008f 102 # Initialize various other internal constants based on our arguments.
103 $self->init_fonts;
104 $self->init_quotes;
105 $self->init_page;
106
107 # For right now, default to turning on all of the magic.
108 $$self{MAGIC_CPP} = 1;
109 $$self{MAGIC_EMDASH} = 1;
110 $$self{MAGIC_FUNC} = 1;
111 $$self{MAGIC_MANREF} = 1;
112 $$self{MAGIC_SMALLCAPS} = 1;
113 $$self{MAGIC_VARS} = 1;
114
115 return $self;
c9abbd5d 116}
5cdeb5a2 117
9741dab0 118# Translate a font string into an escape.
119sub toescape { (length ($_[0]) > 1 ? '\f(' : '\f') . $_[0] }
120
b7ae008f 121# Determine which fonts the user wishes to use and store them in the object.
122# Regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic are constants, but the fixed width
123# fonts may be set by the user. Sets the internal hash key FONTS which is
124# used to map our internal font escapes to actual *roff sequences later.
125sub init_fonts {
126 my ($self) = @_;
9741dab0 127
3c014959 128 # Figure out the fixed-width font. If user-supplied, make sure that they
129 # are the right length.
9741dab0 130 for (qw/fixed fixedbold fixeditalic fixedbolditalic/) {
b7ae008f 131 my $font = $$self{$_};
132 if (defined ($font) && (length ($font) < 1 || length ($font) > 2)) {
133 croak qq(roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "$font");
9741dab0 134 }
135 }
136
b7ae008f 137 # Set the default fonts. We can't be sure portably across different
138 # implementations what fixed bold-italic may be called (if it's even
139 # available), so default to just bold.
9741dab0 140 $$self{fixed} ||= 'CW';
141 $$self{fixedbold} ||= 'CB';
142 $$self{fixeditalic} ||= 'CI';
143 $$self{fixedbolditalic} ||= 'CB';
144
3c014959 145 # Set up a table of font escapes. First number is fixed-width, second is
146 # bold, third is italic.
9741dab0 147 $$self{FONTS} = { '000' => '\fR', '001' => '\fI',
148 '010' => '\fB', '011' => '\f(BI',
149 '100' => toescape ($$self{fixed}),
150 '101' => toescape ($$self{fixeditalic}),
151 '110' => toescape ($$self{fixedbold}),
b7ae008f 152 '111' => toescape ($$self{fixedbolditalic}) };
153}
9741dab0 154
b7ae008f 155# Initialize the quotes that we'll be using for C<> text. This requires some
156# special handling, both to parse the user parameter if given and to make sure
157# that the quotes will be safe against *roff. Sets the internal hash keys
158# LQUOTE and RQUOTE.
159sub init_quotes {
160 my ($self) = (@_);
9741dab0 161
5cdeb5a2 162 $$self{quotes} ||= '"';
ab1f1d91 163 if ($$self{quotes} eq 'none') {
164 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
165 } elsif (length ($$self{quotes}) == 1) {
166 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{quotes};
167 } elsif ($$self{quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
168 || $$self{quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
169 $$self{LQUOTE} = $1;
170 $$self{RQUOTE} = $2;
171 } else {
b7ae008f 172 croak(qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{quotes}"))
ab1f1d91 173 }
174
b7ae008f 175 # Double the first quote; note that this should not be s///g as two double
176 # quotes is represented in *roff as three double quotes, not four. Weird,
177 # I know.
178 $$self{LQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
179 $$self{RQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
180}
181
182# Initialize the page title information and indentation from our arguments.
183sub init_page {
184 my ($self) = @_;
185
186 # We used to try first to get the version number from a local binary, but
187 # we shouldn't need that any more. Get the version from the running Perl.
188 # Work a little magic to handle subversions correctly under both the
189 # pre-5.6 and the post-5.6 version numbering schemes.
190 my @version = ($] =~ /^(\d+)\.(\d{3})(\d{0,3})$/);
191 $version[2] ||= 0;
192 $version[2] *= 10 ** (3 - length $version[2]);
193 for (@version) { $_ += 0 }
194 my $version = join ('.', @version);
195
196 # Set the defaults for page titles and indentation if the user didn't
197 # override anything.
198 $$self{center} = 'User Contributed Perl Documentation'
199 unless defined $$self{center};
200 $$self{release} = 'perl v' . $version
201 unless defined $$self{release};
202 $$self{indent} = 4
203 unless defined $$self{indent};
204
205 # Double quotes in things that will be quoted.
206 for (qw/center release/) {
207 $$self{$_} =~ s/\"/\"\"/g if $$self{$_};
208 }
209}
210
211##############################################################################
212# Core parsing
213##############################################################################
214
215# This is the glue that connects the code below with Pod::Simple itself. The
216# goal is to convert the event stream coming from the POD parser into method
217# calls to handlers once the complete content of a tag has been seen. Each
218# paragraph or POD command will have textual content associated with it, and
219# as soon as all of a paragraph or POD command has been seen, that content
220# will be passed in to the corresponding method for handling that type of
221# object. The exceptions are handlers for lists, which have opening tag
222# handlers and closing tag handlers that will be called right away.
223#
224# The internal hash key PENDING is used to store the contents of a tag until
225# all of it has been seen. It holds a stack of open tags, each one
226# represented by a tuple of the attributes hash for the tag, formatting
227# options for the tag (which are inherited), and the contents of the tag.
228
229# Add a block of text to the contents of the current node, formatting it
230# according to the current formatting instructions as we do.
231sub _handle_text {
232 my ($self, $text) = @_;
233 DEBUG > 3 and print "== $text\n";
234 my $tag = $$self{PENDING}[-1];
235 $$tag[2] .= $self->format_text ($$tag[1], $text);
236}
237
238# Given an element name, get the corresponding method name.
239sub method_for_element {
240 my ($self, $element) = @_;
241 $element =~ tr/-/_/;
242 $element =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
243 $element =~ tr/_a-z0-9//cd;
244 return $element;
245}
246
247# Handle the start of a new element. If cmd_element is defined, assume that
248# we need to collect the entire tree for this element before passing it to the
249# element method, and create a new tree into which we'll collect blocks of
250# text and nested elements. Otherwise, if start_element is defined, call it.
251sub _handle_element_start {
252 my ($self, $element, $attrs) = @_;
253 DEBUG > 3 and print "++ $element (<", join ('> <', %$attrs), ">)\n";
254 my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
255
256 # If we have a command handler, we need to accumulate the contents of the
257 # tag before calling it. Turn off IN_NAME for any command other than
258 # <Para> so that IN_NAME isn't still set for the first heading after the
259 # NAME heading.
260 if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
261 DEBUG > 2 and print "<$element> starts saving a tag\n";
262 $$self{IN_NAME} = 0 if ($element ne 'Para');
263
264 # How we're going to format embedded text blocks depends on the tag
265 # and also depends on our parent tags. Thankfully, inside tags that
266 # turn off guesswork and reformatting, nothing else can turn it back
267 # on, so this can be strictly inherited.
268 my $formatting = $$self{PENDING}[-1][1];
269 $formatting = $self->formatting ($formatting, $element);
270 push (@{ $$self{PENDING} }, [ $attrs, $formatting, '' ]);
271 DEBUG > 4 and print "Pending: [", pretty ($$self{PENDING}), "]\n";
272 } elsif ($self->can ("start_$method")) {
273 my $method = 'start_' . $method;
274 $self->$method ($attrs, '');
275 } else {
276 DEBUG > 2 and print "No $method start method, skipping\n";
277 }
278}
279
280# Handle the end of an element. If we had a cmd_ method for this element,
281# this is where we pass along the tree that we built. Otherwise, if we have
282# an end_ method for the element, call that.
283sub _handle_element_end {
284 my ($self, $element) = @_;
285 DEBUG > 3 and print "-- $element\n";
286 my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
287
288 # If we have a command handler, pull off the pending text and pass it to
289 # the handler along with the saved attribute hash.
290 if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
291 DEBUG > 2 and print "</$element> stops saving a tag\n";
292 my $tag = pop @{ $$self{PENDING} };
293 DEBUG > 4 and print "Popped: [", pretty ($tag), "]\n";
294 DEBUG > 4 and print "Pending: [", pretty ($$self{PENDING}), "]\n";
295 my $method = 'cmd_' . $method;
296 my $text = $self->$method ($$tag[0], $$tag[2]);
297 if (defined $text) {
298 if (@{ $$self{PENDING} } > 1) {
299 $$self{PENDING}[-1][2] .= $text;
300 } else {
301 $self->output ($text);
302 }
303 }
304 } elsif ($self->can ("end_$method")) {
305 my $method = 'end_' . $method;
8f202758 306 $self->$method ();
b7ae008f 307 } else {
308 DEBUG > 2 and print "No $method end method, skipping\n";
309 }
310}
311
312##############################################################################
313# General formatting
314##############################################################################
315
316# Return formatting instructions for a new block. Takes the current
317# formatting and the new element. Formatting inherits negatively, in the
318# sense that if the parent has turned off guesswork, all child elements should
319# leave it off. We therefore return a copy of the same formatting
320# instructions but possibly with more things turned off depending on the
321# element.
322sub formatting {
323 my ($self, $current, $element) = @_;
324 my %options;
325 if ($current) {
326 %options = %$current;
327 } else {
328 %options = (guesswork => 1, cleanup => 1, convert => 1);
329 }
330 if ($element eq 'Data') {
331 $options{guesswork} = 0;
332 $options{cleanup} = 0;
333 $options{convert} = 0;
334 } elsif ($element eq 'X') {
335 $options{guesswork} = 0;
336 $options{cleanup} = 0;
337 } elsif ($element eq 'Verbatim' || $element eq 'C') {
338 $options{guesswork} = 0;
40dcca8a 339 $options{literal} = 1;
b7ae008f 340 }
341 return \%options;
342}
343
344# Format a text block. Takes a hash of formatting options and the text to
345# format. Currently, the only formatting options are guesswork, cleanup, and
346# convert, all of which are boolean.
347sub format_text {
348 my ($self, $options, $text) = @_;
349 my $guesswork = $$options{guesswork} && !$$self{IN_NAME};
350 my $cleanup = $$options{cleanup};
351 my $convert = $$options{convert};
40dcca8a 352 my $literal = $$options{literal};
b7ae008f 353
b7ae008f 354 # Cleanup just tidies up a few things, telling *roff that the hyphens are
55595e83 355 # hard, putting a bit of space between consecutive underscores, and
356 # escaping backslashes. Be careful not to mangle our character
357 # translations by doing this before processing character translation.
b7ae008f 358 if ($cleanup) {
55595e83 359 $text =~ s/\\/\\e/g;
b7ae008f 360 $text =~ s/-/\\-/g;
361 $text =~ s/_(?=_)/_\\|/g;
362 }
363
55595e83 364 # Normally we do character translation, but we won't even do that in
365 # <Data> blocks or if UTF-8 output is desired.
366 if ($convert && !$$self{utf8} && ASCII) {
367 $text =~ s/([^\x00-\x7F])/$ESCAPES{ord ($1)} || "X"/eg;
368 }
369
40dcca8a 370 # Ensure that *roff doesn't convert literal quotes to UTF-8 single quotes,
371 # but don't mess up our accept escapes.
372 if ($literal) {
373 $text =~ s/(?<!\\\*)\'/\\*\(Aq/g;
374 $text =~ s/(?<!\\\*)\`/\\\`/g;
375 }
376
b7ae008f 377 # If guesswork is asked for, do that. This involves more substantial
378 # formatting based on various heuristics that may only be appropriate for
379 # particular documents.
380 if ($guesswork) {
381 $text = $self->guesswork ($text);
382 }
383
384 return $text;
385}
386
387# Handles C<> text, deciding whether to put \*C` around it or not. This is a
388# whole bunch of messy heuristics to try to avoid overquoting, originally from
389# Barrie Slaymaker. This largely duplicates similar code in Pod::Text.
390sub quote_literal {
391 my $self = shift;
392 local $_ = shift;
393
394 # A regex that matches the portion of a variable reference that's the
395 # array or hash index, separated out just because we want to use it in
396 # several places in the following regex.
397 my $index = '(?: \[.*\] | \{.*\} )?';
398
399 # Check for things that we don't want to quote, and if we find any of
400 # them, return the string with just a font change and no quoting.
401 m{
402 ^\s*
403 (?:
404 ( [\'\`\"] ) .* \1 # already quoted
40dcca8a 405 | \\\*\(Aq .* \\\*\(Aq # quoted and escaped
406 | \\?\` .* ( \' | \\\*\(Aq ) # `quoted'
b7ae008f 407 | \$+ [\#^]? \S $index # special ($^Foo, $")
408 | [\$\@%&*]+ \#? [:\'\w]+ $index # plain var or func
409 | [\$\@%&*]* [:\'\w]+ (?: -> )? \(\s*[^\s,]\s*\) # 0/1-arg func call
410 | [-+]? ( \d[\d.]* | \.\d+ ) (?: [eE][-+]?\d+ )? # a number
411 | 0x [a-fA-F\d]+ # a hex constant
412 )
413 \s*\z
414 }xso and return '\f(FS' . $_ . '\f(FE';
415
416 # If we didn't return, go ahead and quote the text.
417 return '\f(FS\*(C`' . $_ . "\\*(C'\\f(FE";
418}
419
420# Takes a text block to perform guesswork on. Returns the text block with
421# formatting codes added. This is the code that marks up various Perl
422# constructs and things commonly used in man pages without requiring the user
423# to add any explicit markup, and is applied to all non-literal text. We're
424# guaranteed that the text we're applying guesswork to does not contain any
425# *roff formatting codes. Note that the inserted font sequences must be
426# treated later with mapfonts or textmapfonts.
427#
428# This method is very fragile, both in the regular expressions it uses and in
429# the ordering of those modifications. Care and testing is required when
430# modifying it.
431sub guesswork {
432 my $self = shift;
433 local $_ = shift;
434 DEBUG > 5 and print " Guesswork called on [$_]\n";
435
436 # By the time we reach this point, all hypens will be escaped by adding a
42ae9e1d 437 # backslash. We want to undo that escaping if they're part of regular
438 # words and there's only a single dash, since that's a real hyphen that
439 # *roff gets to consider a possible break point. Make sure that a dash
440 # after the first character of a word stays non-breaking, however.
b7ae008f 441 #
442 # Note that this is not user-controllable; we pretty much have to do this
443 # transformation or *roff will mangle the output in unacceptable ways.
444 s{
42ae9e1d 445 ( (?:\G|^|\s) [\(\"]* [a-zA-Z] ) ( \\- )?
446 ( (?: [a-zA-Z\']+ \\-)+ )
447 ( [a-zA-Z\']+ ) (?= [\)\".?!,;:]* (?:\s|\Z|\\\ ) )
b7ae008f 448 \b
449 } {
450 my ($prefix, $hyphen, $main, $suffix) = ($1, $2, $3, $4);
451 $hyphen ||= '';
452 $main =~ s/\\-/-/g;
453 $prefix . $hyphen . $main . $suffix;
454 }egx;
455
456 # Translate "--" into a real em-dash if it's used like one. This means
457 # that it's either surrounded by whitespace, it follows a regular word, or
458 # it occurs between two regular words.
459 if ($$self{MAGIC_EMDASH}) {
460 s{ (\s) \\-\\- (\s) } { $1 . '\*(--' . $2 }egx;
461 s{ (\b[a-zA-Z]+) \\-\\- (\s|\Z|[a-zA-Z]+\b) } { $1 . '\*(--' . $2 }egx;
462 }
463
464 # Make words in all-caps a little bit smaller; they look better that way.
465 # However, we don't want to change Perl code (like @ARGV), nor do we want
466 # to fix the MIME in MIME-Version since it looks weird with the
467 # full-height V.
468 #
469 # We change only a string of all caps (2) either at the beginning of the
470 # line or following regular punctuation (like quotes) or whitespace (1),
471 # and followed by either similar punctuation, an em-dash, or the end of
472 # the line (3).
473 if ($$self{MAGIC_SMALLCAPS}) {
474 s{
475 ( ^ | [\s\(\"\'\`\[\{<>] | \\\ ) # (1)
476 ( [A-Z] [A-Z] (?: [/A-Z+:\d_\$&] | \\- )* ) # (2)
477 (?= [\s>\}\]\(\)\'\".?!,;] | \\*\(-- | \\\ | $ ) # (3)
478 } {
479 $1 . '\s-1' . $2 . '\s0'
480 }egx;
481 }
482
483 # Note that from this point forward, we have to adjust for \s-1 and \s-0
484 # strings inserted around things that we've made small-caps if later
485 # transforms should work on those strings.
486
487 # Italize functions in the form func(), including functions that are in
488 # all capitals, but don't italize if there's anything between the parens.
489 # The function must start with an alphabetic character or underscore and
490 # then consist of word characters or colons.
491 if ($$self{MAGIC_FUNC}) {
492 s{
493 ( \b | \\s-1 )
494 ( [A-Za-z_] ([:\w] | \\s-?[01])+ \(\) )
495 } {
496 $1 . '\f(IS' . $2 . '\f(IE'
497 }egx;
498 }
499
500 # Change references to manual pages to put the page name in italics but
501 # the number in the regular font, with a thin space between the name and
502 # the number. Only recognize func(n) where func starts with an alphabetic
503 # character or underscore and contains only word characters, periods (for
504 # configuration file man pages), or colons, and n is a single digit,
505 # optionally followed by some number of lowercase letters. Note that this
506 # does not recognize man page references like perl(l) or socket(3SOCKET).
507 if ($$self{MAGIC_MANREF}) {
508 s{
509 ( \b | \\s-1 )
510 ( [A-Za-z_] (?:[.:\w] | \\- | \\s-?[01])+ )
511 ( \( \d [a-z]* \) )
512 } {
513 $1 . '\f(IS' . $2 . '\f(IE\|' . $3
514 }egx;
515 }
516
517 # Convert simple Perl variable references to a fixed-width font. Be
518 # careful not to convert functions, though; there are too many subtleties
519 # with them to want to perform this transformation.
520 if ($$self{MAGIC_VARS}) {
521 s{
522 ( ^ | \s+ )
523 ( [\$\@%] [\w:]+ )
524 (?! \( )
525 } {
526 $1 . '\f(FS' . $2 . '\f(FE'
527 }egx;
528 }
529
530 # Fix up double quotes. Unfortunately, we miss this transformation if the
531 # quoted text contains any code with formatting codes and there's not much
532 # we can effectively do about that, which makes it somewhat unclear if
533 # this is really a good idea.
534 s{ \" ([^\"]+) \" } { '\*(L"' . $1 . '\*(R"' }egx;
535
536 # Make C++ into \*(C+, which is a squinched version.
537 if ($$self{MAGIC_CPP}) {
538 s{ \b C\+\+ } {\\*\(C+}gx;
539 }
540
541 # Done.
542 DEBUG > 5 and print " Guesswork returning [$_]\n";
543 return $_;
544}
545
546##############################################################################
547# Output
548##############################################################################
549
550# When building up the *roff code, we don't use real *roff fonts. Instead, we
551# embed font codes of the form \f(<font>[SE] where <font> is one of B, I, or
552# F, S stands for start, and E stands for end. This method turns these into
553# the right start and end codes.
554#
555# We add this level of complexity because the old pod2man didn't get code like
556# B<someI<thing> else> right; after I<> it switched back to normal text rather
557# than bold. We take care of this by using variables that state whether bold,
558# italic, or fixed are turned on as a combined pointer to our current font
559# sequence, and set each to the number of current nestings of start tags for
560# that font.
561#
562# \fP changes to the previous font, but only one previous font is kept. We
563# don't know what the outside level font is; normally it's R, but if we're
564# inside a heading it could be something else. So arrange things so that the
565# outside font is always the "previous" font and end with \fP instead of \fR.
566# Idea from Zack Weinberg.
567sub mapfonts {
568 my ($self, $text) = @_;
569 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
570 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
571 my $last = '\fR';
572 $text =~ s<
573 \\f\((.)(.)
574 > <
575 my $sequence = '';
576 my $f;
577 if ($last ne '\fR') { $sequence = '\fP' }
578 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
579 $f = $$self{FONTS}{ ($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1) };
580 if ($f eq $last) {
581 '';
582 } else {
583 if ($f ne '\fR') { $sequence .= $f }
584 $last = $f;
585 $sequence;
586 }
587 >gxe;
588 return $text;
589}
590
591# Unfortunately, there is a bug in Solaris 2.6 nroff (not present in GNU
592# groff) where the sequence \fB\fP\f(CW\fP leaves the font set to B rather
593# than R, presumably because \f(CW doesn't actually do a font change. To work
594# around this, use a separate textmapfonts for text blocks where the default
595# font is always R and only use the smart mapfonts for headings.
596sub textmapfonts {
597 my ($self, $text) = @_;
598 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
599 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
600 $text =~ s<
601 \\f\((.)(.)
602 > <
603 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
604 $$self{FONTS}{ ($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1) };
605 >gxe;
606 return $text;
607}
608
609# Given a command and a single argument that may or may not contain double
610# quotes, handle double-quote formatting for it. If there are no double
611# quotes, just return the command followed by the argument in double quotes.
612# If there are double quotes, use an if statement to test for nroff, and for
613# nroff output the command followed by the argument in double quotes with
614# embedded double quotes doubled. For other formatters, remap paired double
615# quotes to LQUOTE and RQUOTE.
616sub switchquotes {
617 my ($self, $command, $text, $extra) = @_;
618 $text =~ s/\\\*\([LR]\"/\"/g;
619
620 # We also have to deal with \*C` and \*C', which are used to add the
621 # quotes around C<> text, since they may expand to " and if they do this
622 # confuses the .SH macros and the like no end. Expand them ourselves.
623 # Also separate troff from nroff if there are any fixed-width fonts in use
624 # to work around problems with Solaris nroff.
625 my $c_is_quote = ($$self{LQUOTE} =~ /\"/) || ($$self{RQUOTE} =~ /\"/);
626 my $fixedpat = join '|', @{ $$self{FONTS} }{'100', '101', '110', '111'};
627 $fixedpat =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
628 $fixedpat =~ s/\(/\\\(/g;
629 if ($text =~ m/\"/ || $text =~ m/$fixedpat/) {
630 $text =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
631 my $nroff = $text;
632 my $troff = $text;
633 $troff =~ s/\"\"([^\"]*)\"\"/\`\`$1\'\'/g;
634 if ($c_is_quote and $text =~ m/\\\*\(C[\'\`]/) {
635 $nroff =~ s/\\\*\(C\`/$$self{LQUOTE}/g;
636 $nroff =~ s/\\\*\(C\'/$$self{RQUOTE}/g;
637 $troff =~ s/\\\*\(C[\'\`]//g;
638 }
639 $nroff = qq("$nroff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
640 $troff = qq("$troff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
641
642 # Work around the Solaris nroff bug where \f(CW\fP leaves the font set
643 # to Roman rather than the actual previous font when used in headings.
644 # troff output may still be broken, but at least we can fix nroff by
645 # just switching the font changes to the non-fixed versions.
55595e83 646 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{100}\E(.*?)\\f[PR]/$1/g;
647 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{101}\E(.*?)\\f([PR])/\\fI$1\\f$2/g;
648 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{110}\E(.*?)\\f([PR])/\\fB$1\\f$2/g;
649 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{111}\E(.*?)\\f([PR])/\\f\(BI$1\\f$2/g;
b7ae008f 650
651 # Now finally output the command. Bother with .ie only if the nroff
652 # and troff output aren't the same.
653 if ($nroff ne $troff) {
654 return ".ie n $command $nroff\n.el $command $troff\n";
655 } else {
656 return "$command $nroff\n";
657 }
658 } else {
659 $text = qq("$text") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
660 return "$command $text\n";
661 }
662}
663
664# Protect leading quotes and periods against interpretation as commands. Also
665# protect anything starting with a backslash, since it could expand or hide
666# something that *roff would interpret as a command. This is overkill, but
667# it's much simpler than trying to parse *roff here.
668sub protect {
669 my ($self, $text) = @_;
670 $text =~ s/^([.\'\\])/\\&$1/mg;
671 return $text;
672}
673
674# Make vertical whitespace if NEEDSPACE is set, appropriate to the indentation
675# level the situation. This function is needed since in *roff one has to
676# create vertical whitespace after paragraphs and between some things, but
677# other macros create their own whitespace. Also close out a sequence of
678# repeated =items, since calling makespace means we're about to begin the item
679# body.
680sub makespace {
681 my ($self) = @_;
682 $self->output (".PD\n") if $$self{ITEMS} > 1;
683 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
684 $self->output ($$self{INDENT} > 0 ? ".Sp\n" : ".PP\n")
685 if $$self{NEEDSPACE};
686}
687
688# Output any pending index entries, and optionally an index entry given as an
689# argument. Support multiple index entries in X<> separated by slashes, and
690# strip special escapes from index entries.
691sub outindex {
692 my ($self, $section, $index) = @_;
693 my @entries = map { split m%\s*/\s*% } @{ $$self{INDEX} };
694 return unless ($section || @entries);
695
696 # We're about to output all pending entries, so clear our pending queue.
697 $$self{INDEX} = [];
698
699 # Build the output. Regular index entries are marked Xref, and headings
700 # pass in their own section. Undo some *roff formatting on headings.
701 my @output;
702 if (@entries) {
703 push @output, [ 'Xref', join (' ', @entries) ];
704 }
705 if ($section) {
706 $index =~ s/\\-/-/g;
707 $index =~ s/\\(?:s-?\d|.\(..|.)//g;
708 push @output, [ $section, $index ];
709 }
ab1f1d91 710
b7ae008f 711 # Print out the .IX commands.
712 for (@output) {
713 my ($type, $entry) = @$_;
714 $entry =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
715 $self->output (".IX $type " . '"' . $entry . '"' . "\n");
716 }
9741dab0 717}
718
b7ae008f 719# Output some text, without any additional changes.
720sub output {
721 my ($self, @text) = @_;
722 print { $$self{output_fh} } @text;
723}
9741dab0 724
b7ae008f 725##############################################################################
726# Document initialization
727##############################################################################
bf202ccd 728
b7ae008f 729# Handle the start of the document. Here we handle empty documents, as well
730# as setting up our basic macros in a preamble and building the page title.
731sub start_document {
732 my ($self, $attrs) = @_;
733 if ($$attrs{contentless} && !$$self{ALWAYS_EMIT_SOMETHING}) {
734 DEBUG and print "Document is contentless\n";
735 $$self{CONTENTLESS} = 1;
736 return;
9741dab0 737 }
738
b7ae008f 739 # Determine information for the preamble and then output it.
740 my ($name, $section);
741 if (defined $$self{name}) {
742 $name = $$self{name};
743 $section = $$self{section} || 1;
744 } else {
745 ($name, $section) = $self->devise_title;
9741dab0 746 }
b7ae008f 747 my $date = $$self{date} || $self->devise_date;
748 $self->preamble ($name, $section, $date)
749 unless $self->bare_output or DEBUG > 9;
9741dab0 750
b7ae008f 751 # Initialize a few per-document variables.
b616daaf 752 $$self{INDENT} = 0; # Current indentation level.
753 $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
754 $$self{INDEX} = []; # Index keys waiting to be printed.
2da3dd12 755 $$self{IN_NAME} = 0; # Whether processing the NAME section.
b616daaf 756 $$self{ITEMS} = 0; # The number of consecutive =items.
4213be12 757 $$self{ITEMTYPES} = []; # Stack of =item types, one per list.
b616daaf 758 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0; # Whether there is a shift waiting.
759 $$self{SHIFTS} = []; # Stack of .RS shifts.
b7ae008f 760 $$self{PENDING} = [[]]; # Pending output.
9741dab0 761}
762
b7ae008f 763# Handle the end of the document. This does nothing but print out a final
764# comment at the end of the document under debugging.
765sub end_document {
766 my ($self) = @_;
767 return if $self->bare_output;
768 return if ($$self{CONTENTLESS} && !$$self{ALWAYS_EMIT_SOMETHING});
769 $self->output (q(.\" [End document]) . "\n") if DEBUG;
770}
9741dab0 771
b7ae008f 772# Try to figure out the name and section from the file name and return them as
773# a list, returning an empty name and section 1 if we can't find any better
774# information. Uses File::Basename and File::Spec as necessary.
775sub devise_title {
776 my ($self) = @_;
777 my $name = $self->source_filename || '';
778 my $section = $$self{section} || 1;
779 $section = 3 if (!$$self{section} && $name =~ /\.pm\z/i);
780 $name =~ s/\.p(od|[lm])\z//i;
781
782 # If the section isn't 3, then the name defaults to just the basename of
783 # the file. Otherwise, assume we're dealing with a module. We want to
784 # figure out the full module name from the path to the file, but we don't
785 # want to include too much of the path into the module name. Lose
786 # anything up to the first off:
787 #
788 # */lib/*perl*/ standard or site_perl module
789 # */*perl*/lib/ from -Dprefix=/opt/perl
790 # */*perl*/ random module hierarchy
791 #
792 # which works. Also strip off a leading site, site_perl, or vendor_perl
793 # component, any OS-specific component, and any version number component,
794 # and strip off an initial component of "lib" or "blib/lib" since that's
795 # what ExtUtils::MakeMaker creates. splitdir requires at least File::Spec
796 # 0.8.
797 if ($section !~ /^3/) {
798 require File::Basename;
799 $name = uc File::Basename::basename ($name);
3c014959 800 } else {
b7ae008f 801 require File::Spec;
802 my ($volume, $dirs, $file) = File::Spec->splitpath ($name);
803 my @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir ($dirs);
804 my $cut = 0;
805 my $i;
40dcca8a 806 for ($i = 0; $i < @dirs; $i++) {
807 if ($dirs[$i] =~ /perl/) {
b7ae008f 808 $cut = $i + 1;
40dcca8a 809 $cut++ if ($dirs[$i + 1] && $dirs[$i + 1] eq 'lib');
b7ae008f 810 last;
811 }
812 }
813 if ($cut > 0) {
814 splice (@dirs, 0, $cut);
815 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^(site|vendor)(_perl)?$/);
816 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^[\d.]+$/);
817 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^(.*-$^O|$^O-.*|$^O)$/);
818 }
819 shift @dirs if $dirs[0] eq 'lib';
820 splice (@dirs, 0, 2) if ($dirs[0] eq 'blib' && $dirs[1] eq 'lib');
821
822 # Remove empty directories when building the module name; they
823 # occur too easily on Unix by doubling slashes.
824 $name = join ('::', (grep { $_ ? $_ : () } @dirs), $file);
844b31e3 825 }
b7ae008f 826 return ($name, $section);
9741dab0 827}
828
b7ae008f 829# Determine the modification date and return that, properly formatted in ISO
830# format. If we can't get the modification date of the input, instead use the
fcf69717 831# current time. Pod::Simple returns a completely unuseful stringified file
832# handle as the source_filename for input from a file handle, so we have to
833# deal with that as well.
b7ae008f 834sub devise_date {
835 my ($self) = @_;
836 my $input = $self->source_filename;
fcf69717 837 my $time;
838 if ($input) {
839 $time = (stat $input)[9] || time;
840 } else {
841 $time = time;
842 }
b7ae008f 843 return strftime ('%Y-%m-%d', localtime $time);
9741dab0 844}
845
b7ae008f 846# Print out the preamble and the title. The meaning of the arguments to .TH
847# unfortunately vary by system; some systems consider the fourth argument to
848# be a "source" and others use it as a version number. Generally it's just
849# presented as the left-side footer, though, so it doesn't matter too much if
850# a particular system gives it another interpretation.
851#
852# The order of date and release used to be reversed in older versions of this
853# module, but this order is correct for both Solaris and Linux.
854sub preamble {
855 my ($self, $name, $section, $date) = @_;
0e4e3f6e 856 my $preamble = $self->preamble_template (!$$self{utf8});
b7ae008f 857
858 # Build the index line and make sure that it will be syntactically valid.
859 my $index = "$name $section";
860 $index =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
861
862 # If name or section contain spaces, quote them (section really never
863 # should, but we may as well be cautious).
864 for ($name, $section) {
865 if (/\s/) {
866 s/\"/\"\"/g;
867 $_ = '"' . $_ . '"';
868 }
869 }
870
871 # Double quotes in date, since it will be quoted.
872 $date =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
873
874 # Substitute into the preamble the configuration options.
875 $preamble =~ s/\@CFONT\@/$$self{fixed}/;
876 $preamble =~ s/\@LQUOTE\@/$$self{LQUOTE}/;
877 $preamble =~ s/\@RQUOTE\@/$$self{RQUOTE}/;
878 chomp $preamble;
879
880 # Get the version information.
881 my $version = $self->version_report;
882
883 # Finally output everything.
884 $self->output (<<"----END OF HEADER----");
885.\\" Automatically generated by $version
886.\\"
887.\\" Standard preamble:
888.\\" ========================================================================
889$preamble
890.\\" ========================================================================
891.\\"
892.IX Title "$index"
893.TH $name $section "$date" "$$self{release}" "$$self{center}"
42ae9e1d 894.\\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
895.\\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
896.if n .ad l
897.nh
b7ae008f 898----END OF HEADER----
899 $self->output (".\\\" [End of preamble]\n") if DEBUG;
900}
901
902##############################################################################
903# Text blocks
904##############################################################################
9741dab0 905
b7ae008f 906# Handle a basic block of text. The only tricky part of this is if this is
907# the first paragraph of text after an =over, in which case we have to change
908# indentations for *roff.
909sub cmd_para {
910 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
911 my $line = $$attrs{start_line};
bf202ccd 912
913 # Output the paragraph. We also have to handle =over without =item. If
4213be12 914 # there's an =over without =item, SHIFTWAIT will be set, and we need to
915 # handle creation of the indent here. Add the shift to SHIFTS so that it
916 # will be cleaned up on =back.
5cdeb5a2 917 $self->makespace;
b616daaf 918 if ($$self{SHIFTWAIT}) {
bf202ccd 919 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
b616daaf 920 push (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
921 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
bf202ccd 922 }
9741dab0 923
b7ae008f 924 # Add the line number for debugging, but not in the NAME section just in
925 # case the comment would confuse apropos.
926 $self->output (".\\\" [At source line $line]\n")
927 if defined ($line) && DEBUG && !$$self{IN_NAME};
9741dab0 928
b7ae008f 929 # Force exactly one newline at the end and strip unwanted trailing
930 # whitespace at the end.
931 $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
9741dab0 932
b7ae008f 933 # Output the paragraph.
934 $self->output ($self->protect ($self->textmapfonts ($text)));
935 $self->outindex;
936 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
937 return '';
938}
5cdeb5a2 939
b7ae008f 940# Handle a verbatim paragraph. Put a null token at the beginning of each line
941# to protect against commands and wrap in .Vb/.Ve (which we define in our
942# prelude).
943sub cmd_verbatim {
944 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
945
946 # Ignore an empty verbatim paragraph.
947 return unless $text =~ /\S/;
948
949 # Force exactly one newline at the end and strip unwanted trailing
950 # whitespace at the end.
951 $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
952
953 # Get a count of the number of lines before the first blank line, which
954 # we'll pass to .Vb as its parameter. This tells *roff to keep that many
955 # lines together. We don't want to tell *roff to keep huge blocks
956 # together.
957 my @lines = split (/\n/, $text);
958 my $unbroken = 0;
959 for (@lines) {
960 last if /^\s*$/;
961 $unbroken++;
9741dab0 962 }
b7ae008f 963 $unbroken = 10 if ($unbroken > 12 && !$$self{MAGIC_VNOPAGEBREAK_LIMIT});
9741dab0 964
b7ae008f 965 # Prepend a null token to each line.
966 $text =~ s/^/\\&/gm;
9741dab0 967
b7ae008f 968 # Output the results.
969 $self->makespace;
970 $self->output (".Vb $unbroken\n$text.Ve\n");
971 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
972 return '';
9741dab0 973}
974
b7ae008f 975# Handle literal text (produced by =for and similar constructs). Just output
976# it with the minimum of changes.
977sub cmd_data {
978 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
979 $text =~ s/^\n+//;
980 $text =~ s/\n{0,2}$/\n/;
981 $self->output ($text);
982 return '';
983}
9741dab0 984
3c014959 985##############################################################################
b7ae008f 986# Headings
3c014959 987##############################################################################
9741dab0 988
b7ae008f 989# Common code for all headings. This is called before the actual heading is
990# output. It returns the cleaned up heading text (putting the heading all on
991# one line) and may do other things, like closing bad =item blocks.
992sub heading_common {
993 my ($self, $text, $line) = @_;
994 $text =~ s/\s+$//;
995 $text =~ s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
9741dab0 996
b7ae008f 997 # This should never happen; it means that we have a heading after =item
998 # without an intervening =back. But just in case, handle it anyway.
5cdeb5a2 999 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
1000 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
1001 $self->output (".PD\n");
1002 }
b7ae008f 1003
1004 # Output the current source line.
1005 $self->output ( ".\\\" [At source line $line]\n" )
1006 if defined ($line) && DEBUG;
1007 return $text;
1008}
1009
1010# First level heading. We can't output .IX in the NAME section due to a bug
1011# in some versions of catman, so don't output a .IX for that section. .SH
1012# already uses small caps, so remove \s0 and \s-1. Maintain IN_NAME as
1013# appropriate.
1014sub cmd_head1 {
1015 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1016 $text =~ s/\\s-?\d//g;
1017 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
1018 my $isname = ($text eq 'NAME' || $text =~ /\(NAME\)/);
1019 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.SH', $self->mapfonts ($text)));
1020 $self->outindex ('Header', $text) unless $isname;
9741dab0 1021 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
b7ae008f 1022 $$self{IN_NAME} = $isname;
1023 return '';
9741dab0 1024}
1025
1026# Second level heading.
1027sub cmd_head2 {
b7ae008f 1028 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1029 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
0e4e3f6e 1030 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.SS', $self->mapfonts ($text)));
b7ae008f 1031 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $text);
9741dab0 1032 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
b7ae008f 1033 return '';
9741dab0 1034}
1035
b7ae008f 1036# Third level heading. *roff doesn't have this concept, so just put the
1037# heading in italics as a normal paragraph.
50a3fd2a 1038sub cmd_head3 {
b7ae008f 1039 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1040 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
50a3fd2a 1041 $self->makespace;
b7ae008f 1042 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ('\f(IS' . $text . '\f(IE') . "\n");
1043 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $text);
50a3fd2a 1044 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
b7ae008f 1045 return '';
50a3fd2a 1046}
1047
b7ae008f 1048# Fourth level heading. *roff doesn't have this concept, so just put the
1049# heading as a normal paragraph.
50a3fd2a 1050sub cmd_head4 {
b7ae008f 1051 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1052 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
50a3fd2a 1053 $self->makespace;
b7ae008f 1054 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ($text) . "\n");
1055 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $text);
50a3fd2a 1056 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
b7ae008f 1057 return '';
50a3fd2a 1058}
1059
b7ae008f 1060##############################################################################
1061# Formatting codes
1062##############################################################################
1063
1064# All of the formatting codes that aren't handled internally by the parser,
1065# other than L<> and X<>.
1066sub cmd_b { return '\f(BS' . $_[2] . '\f(BE' }
1067sub cmd_i { return '\f(IS' . $_[2] . '\f(IE' }
1068sub cmd_f { return '\f(IS' . $_[2] . '\f(IE' }
1069sub cmd_c { return $_[0]->quote_literal ($_[2]) }
1070
1071# Index entries are just added to the pending entries.
1072sub cmd_x {
1073 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1074 push (@{ $$self{INDEX} }, $text);
1075 return '';
1076}
1077
1078# Links reduce to the text that we're given, wrapped in angle brackets if it's
1079# a URL.
1080sub cmd_l {
1081 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1082 return $$attrs{type} eq 'url' ? "<$text>" : $text;
1083}
1084
1085##############################################################################
1086# List handling
1087##############################################################################
1088
1089# Handle the beginning of an =over block. Takes the type of the block as the
1090# first argument, and then the attr hash. This is called by the handlers for
1091# the four different types of lists (bullet, number, text, and block).
1092sub over_common_start {
1093 my ($self, $type, $attrs) = @_;
1094 my $line = $$attrs{start_line};
1095 my $indent = $$attrs{indent};
1096 DEBUG > 3 and print " Starting =over $type (line $line, indent ",
1097 ($indent || '?'), "\n";
1098
1099 # Find the indentation level.
1100 unless (defined ($indent) && $indent =~ /^[-+]?\d{1,4}\s*$/) {
1101 $indent = $$self{indent};
1102 }
1103
1104 # If we've gotten multiple indentations in a row, we need to emit the
1105 # pending indentation for the last level that we saw and haven't acted on
1106 # yet. SHIFTS is the stack of indentations that we've actually emitted
1107 # code for.
b616daaf 1108 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } < @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
9741dab0 1109 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
b616daaf 1110 push (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
9741dab0 1111 }
b7ae008f 1112
1113 # Now, do record-keeping. INDENTS is a stack of indentations that we've
1114 # seen so far, and INDENT is the current level of indentation. ITEMTYPES
1115 # is a stack of list types that we've seen.
9741dab0 1116 push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
b7ae008f 1117 push (@{ $$self{ITEMTYPES} }, $type);
1118 $$self{INDENT} = $indent + 0;
b616daaf 1119 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 1;
9741dab0 1120}
1121
b7ae008f 1122# End an =over block. Takes no options other than the class pointer.
1123# Normally, once we close a block and therefore remove something from INDENTS,
1124# INDENTS will now be longer than SHIFTS, indicating that we also need to emit
1125# *roff code to close the indent. This isn't *always* true, depending on the
1126# circumstance. If we're still inside an indentation, we need to emit another
1127# .RE and then a new .RS to unconfuse *roff.
1128sub over_common_end {
1129 my ($self) = @_;
1130 DEBUG > 3 and print " Ending =over\n";
9741dab0 1131 $$self{INDENT} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
b7ae008f 1132 pop @{ $$self{ITEMTYPES} };
1133
1134 # If we emitted code for that indentation, end it.
b616daaf 1135 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } > @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
9741dab0 1136 $self->output (".RE\n");
b616daaf 1137 pop @{ $$self{SHIFTS} };
9741dab0 1138 }
b7ae008f 1139
1140 # If we're still in an indentation, *roff will have now lost track of the
1141 # right depth of that indentation, so fix that.
9741dab0 1142 if (@{ $$self{INDENTS} } > 0) {
1143 $self->output (".RE\n");
1144 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
9741dab0 1145 }
1146 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
b616daaf 1147 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
9741dab0 1148}
1149
b7ae008f 1150# Dispatch the start and end calls as appropriate.
1151sub start_over_bullet { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('bullet', @_) }
1152sub start_over_number { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('number', @_) }
1153sub start_over_text { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('text', @_) }
1154sub start_over_block { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('block', @_) }
1155sub end_over_bullet { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1156sub end_over_number { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1157sub end_over_text { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1158sub end_over_block { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1159
1160# The common handler for all item commands. Takes the type of the item, the
1161# attributes, and then the text of the item.
1162#
1163# Emit an index entry for anything that's interesting, but don't emit index
1164# entries for things like bullets and numbers. Newlines in an item title are
1165# turned into spaces since *roff can't handle them embedded.
1166sub item_common {
1167 my ($self, $type, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1168 my $line = $$attrs{start_line};
1169 DEBUG > 3 and print " $type item (line $line): $text\n";
1170
1171 # Clean up the text. We want to end up with two variables, one ($text)
1172 # which contains any body text after taking out the item portion, and
1173 # another ($item) which contains the actual item text.
1174 $text =~ s/\s+$//;
1175 my ($item, $index);
1176 if ($type eq 'bullet') {
1177 $item = "\\\(bu";
1178 $text =~ s/\n*$/\n/;
1179 } elsif ($type eq 'number') {
1180 $item = $$attrs{number} . '.';
1181 } else {
1182 $item = $text;
1183 $item =~ s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
1184 $text = '';
1185 $index = $item if ($item =~ /\w/);
4213be12 1186 }
b7ae008f 1187
1188 # Take care of the indentation. If shifts and indents are equal, close
1189 # the top shift, since we're about to create an indentation with .IP.
1190 # Also output .PD 0 to turn off spacing between items if this item is
1191 # directly following another one. We only have to do that once for a
1192 # whole chain of items so do it for the second item in the change. Note
1193 # that makespace is what undoes this.
b616daaf 1194 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } == @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
9741dab0 1195 $self->output (".RE\n");
b616daaf 1196 pop @{ $$self{SHIFTS} };
b7ae008f 1197 }
1198 $self->output (".PD 0\n") if ($$self{ITEMS} == 1);
3c014959 1199
b7ae008f 1200 # Now, output the item tag itself.
1201 $item = $self->textmapfonts ($item);
1202 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.IP', $item, $$self{INDENT}));
1203 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
1204 $$self{ITEMS}++;
1205 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
3c014959 1206
b7ae008f 1207 # If body text for this item was included, go ahead and output that now.
1208 if ($text) {
1209 $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
1210 $self->makespace;
1211 $self->output ($self->protect ($self->textmapfonts ($text)));
1212 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
1213 }
1214 $self->outindex ($index ? ('Item', $index) : ());
3c014959 1215}
1216
b7ae008f 1217# Dispatch the item commands to the appropriate place.
1218sub cmd_item_bullet { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('bullet', @_) }
1219sub cmd_item_number { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('number', @_) }
1220sub cmd_item_text { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('text', @_) }
1221sub cmd_item_block { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('block', @_) }
9741dab0 1222
3c014959 1223##############################################################################
8f202758 1224# Backward compatibility
1225##############################################################################
1226
1227# Reset the underlying Pod::Simple object between calls to parse_from_file so
1228# that the same object can be reused to convert multiple pages.
1229sub parse_from_file {
1230 my $self = shift;
1231 $self->reinit;
42ae9e1d 1232
1233 # Fake the old cutting option to Pod::Parser. This fiddings with internal
1234 # Pod::Simple state and is quite ugly; we need a better approach.
1235 if (ref ($_[0]) eq 'HASH') {
1236 my $opts = shift @_;
1237 if (defined ($$opts{-cutting}) && !$$opts{-cutting}) {
1238 $$self{in_pod} = 1;
1239 $$self{last_was_blank} = 1;
1240 }
1241 }
1242
1243 # Do the work.
8f202758 1244 my $retval = $self->SUPER::parse_from_file (@_);
42ae9e1d 1245
1246 # Flush output, since Pod::Simple doesn't do this. Ideally we should also
1247 # close the file descriptor if we had to open one, but we can't easily
1248 # figure this out.
8f202758 1249 my $fh = $self->output_fh ();
1250 my $oldfh = select $fh;
1251 my $oldflush = $|;
1252 $| = 1;
1253 print $fh '';
1254 $| = $oldflush;
1255 select $oldfh;
1256 return $retval;
1257}
1258
fcf69717 1259# Pod::Simple failed to provide this backward compatibility function, so
1260# implement it ourselves. File handles are one of the inputs that
1261# parse_from_file supports.
1262sub parse_from_filehandle {
1263 my $self = shift;
1264 $self->parse_from_file (@_);
1265}
1266
8f202758 1267##############################################################################
b7ae008f 1268# Translation tables
3c014959 1269##############################################################################
9741dab0 1270
b7ae008f 1271# The following table is adapted from Tom Christiansen's pod2man. It assumes
1272# that the standard preamble has already been printed, since that's what
1273# defines all of the accent marks. We really want to do something better than
1274# this when *roff actually supports other character sets itself, since these
1275# results are pretty poor.
1276#
1277# This only works in an ASCII world. What to do in a non-ASCII world is very
0e4e3f6e 1278# unclear -- hopefully we can assume UTF-8 and just leave well enough alone.
b7ae008f 1279@ESCAPES{0xA0 .. 0xFF} = (
1280 "\\ ", undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef,
1281 undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, "\\%", undef, undef,
9741dab0 1282
b7ae008f 1283 undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef,
1284 undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef,
9741dab0 1285
b7ae008f 1286 "A\\*`", "A\\*'", "A\\*^", "A\\*~", "A\\*:", "A\\*o", "\\*(AE", "C\\*,",
1287 "E\\*`", "E\\*'", "E\\*^", "E\\*:", "I\\*`", "I\\*'", "I\\*^", "I\\*:",
9741dab0 1288
b7ae008f 1289 "\\*(D-", "N\\*~", "O\\*`", "O\\*'", "O\\*^", "O\\*~", "O\\*:", undef,
1290 "O\\*/", "U\\*`", "U\\*'", "U\\*^", "U\\*:", "Y\\*'", "\\*(Th", "\\*8",
50a3fd2a 1291
b7ae008f 1292 "a\\*`", "a\\*'", "a\\*^", "a\\*~", "a\\*:", "a\\*o", "\\*(ae", "c\\*,",
1293 "e\\*`", "e\\*'", "e\\*^", "e\\*:", "i\\*`", "i\\*'", "i\\*^", "i\\*:",
3c014959 1294
b7ae008f 1295 "\\*(d-", "n\\*~", "o\\*`", "o\\*'", "o\\*^", "o\\*~", "o\\*:", undef,
1296 "o\\*/" , "u\\*`", "u\\*'", "u\\*^", "u\\*:", "y\\*'", "\\*(th", "y\\*:",
1297) if ASCII;
3c014959 1298
b7ae008f 1299##############################################################################
1300# Premable
1301##############################################################################
1302
1303# The following is the static preamble which starts all *roff output we
0e4e3f6e 1304# generate. Most is static except for the font to use as a fixed-width font,
1305# which is designed by @CFONT@, and the left and right quotes to use for C<>
1306# text, designated by @LQOUTE@ and @RQUOTE@. However, the second part, which
1307# defines the accent marks, is only used if $escapes is set to true.
b7ae008f 1308sub preamble_template {
0e4e3f6e 1309 my ($self, $accents) = @_;
1310 my $preamble = <<'----END OF PREAMBLE----';
b7ae008f 1311.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
1312.if t .sp .5v
1313.if n .sp
1314..
1315.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text
1316.ft @CFONT@
1317.nf
1318.ne \\$1
1319..
1320.de Ve \" End verbatim text
1321.ft R
1322.fi
1323..
1324.\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will
1325.\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left
42ae9e1d 1326.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will
1327.\" give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and
1328.\" therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff,
1329.\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>.
1330.tr \(*W-
b7ae008f 1331.ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p'
1332.ie n \{\
1333. ds -- \(*W-
1334. ds PI pi
1335. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch
1336. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch
1337. ds L" ""
1338. ds R" ""
1339. ds C` @LQUOTE@
1340. ds C' @RQUOTE@
1341'br\}
1342.el\{\
1343. ds -- \|\(em\|
1344. ds PI \(*p
1345. ds L" ``
1346. ds R" ''
1347'br\}
1348.\"
40dcca8a 1349.\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform.
1350.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
1351.el .ds Aq '
1352.\"
b7ae008f 1353.\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
0e4e3f6e 1354.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.SS), items (.Ip), and index
b7ae008f 1355.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
1356.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
40dcca8a 1357.ie \nF \{\
b7ae008f 1358. de IX
1359. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
1360..
1361. nr % 0
1362. rr F
1363.\}
40dcca8a 1364.el \{\
1365. de IX
1366..
1367.\}
0e4e3f6e 1368----END OF PREAMBLE----
1369
1370 if ($accents) {
1371 $preamble .= <<'----END OF PREAMBLE----'
b7ae008f 1372.\"
b7ae008f 1373.\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2).
1374.\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts.
1375. \" fudge factors for nroff and troff
1376.if n \{\
1377. ds #H 0
1378. ds #V .8m
1379. ds #F .3m
1380. ds #[ \f1
1381. ds #] \fP
1382.\}
1383.if t \{\
1384. ds #H ((1u-(\\\\n(.fu%2u))*.13m)
1385. ds #V .6m
1386. ds #F 0
1387. ds #[ \&
1388. ds #] \&
1389.\}
1390. \" simple accents for nroff and troff
1391.if n \{\
1392. ds ' \&
1393. ds ` \&
1394. ds ^ \&
1395. ds , \&
1396. ds ~ ~
1397. ds /
1398.\}
1399.if t \{\
1400. ds ' \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\'\h"|\\n:u"
1401. ds ` \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\`\h'|\\n:u'
1402. ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'^\h'|\\n:u'
1403. ds , \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10)',\h'|\\n:u'
1404. ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu-\*(#H-.1m)'~\h'|\\n:u'
1405. ds / \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\z\(sl\h'|\\n:u'
1406.\}
1407. \" troff and (daisy-wheel) nroff accents
1408.ds : \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H+.1m+\*(#F)'\v'-\*(#V'\z.\h'.2m+\*(#F'.\h'|\\n:u'\v'\*(#V'
1409.ds 8 \h'\*(#H'\(*b\h'-\*(#H'
1410.ds o \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu+\w'\(de'u-\*(#H)/2u'\v'-.3n'\*(#[\z\(de\v'.3n'\h'|\\n:u'\*(#]
1411.ds d- \h'\*(#H'\(pd\h'-\w'~'u'\v'-.25m'\f2\(hy\fP\v'.25m'\h'-\*(#H'
1412.ds D- D\\k:\h'-\w'D'u'\v'-.11m'\z\(hy\v'.11m'\h'|\\n:u'
1413.ds th \*(#[\v'.3m'\s+1I\s-1\v'-.3m'\h'-(\w'I'u*2/3)'\s-1o\s+1\*(#]
1414.ds Th \*(#[\s+2I\s-2\h'-\w'I'u*3/5'\v'-.3m'o\v'.3m'\*(#]
1415.ds ae a\h'-(\w'a'u*4/10)'e
1416.ds Ae A\h'-(\w'A'u*4/10)'E
1417. \" corrections for vroff
1418.if v .ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H)'\s-2\u~\d\s+2\h'|\\n:u'
1419.if v .ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'\v'-.4m'^\v'.4m'\h'|\\n:u'
1420. \" for low resolution devices (crt and lpr)
1421.if \n(.H>23 .if \n(.V>19 \
1422\{\
1423. ds : e
1424. ds 8 ss
1425. ds o a
1426. ds d- d\h'-1'\(ga
1427. ds D- D\h'-1'\(hy
1428. ds th \o'bp'
1429. ds Th \o'LP'
1430. ds ae ae
1431. ds Ae AE
1432.\}
1433.rm #[ #] #H #V #F C
1434----END OF PREAMBLE----
1435#`# for cperl-mode
0e4e3f6e 1436 }
1437 return $preamble;
50a3fd2a 1438}
1439
3c014959 1440##############################################################################
5e2effed 1441# Module return value and documentation
3c014959 1442##############################################################################
9741dab0 1443
5e2effed 14441;
1445__END__
1446
9741dab0 1447=head1 NAME
1448
1449Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
1450
0e4e3f6e 1451=for stopwords
bc9c7511 1452en em ALLCAPS teeny fixedbold fixeditalic fixedbolditalic stderr utf8
2504ae52 1453UTF-8 Allbery Sean Burke Ossanna Solaris formatters troff uppercased
1454Christiansen
0e4e3f6e 1455
9741dab0 1456=head1 SYNOPSIS
1457
1458 use Pod::Man;
1459 my $parser = Pod::Man->new (release => $VERSION, section => 8);
1460
1461 # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
b7ae008f 1462 $parser->parse_file (\*STDIN);
9741dab0 1463
1464 # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.1.
1465 $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.1');
1466
1467=head1 DESCRIPTION
1468
1469Pod::Man is a module to convert documentation in the POD format (the
1470preferred language for documenting Perl) into *roff input using the man
1471macro set. The resulting *roff code is suitable for display on a terminal
bf202ccd 1472using L<nroff(1)>, normally via L<man(1)>, or printing using L<troff(1)>.
1473It is conventionally invoked using the driver script B<pod2man>, but it can
1474also be used directly.
9741dab0 1475
b7ae008f 1476As a derived class from Pod::Simple, Pod::Man supports the same methods and
1477interfaces. See L<Pod::Simple> for all the details.
9741dab0 1478
1479new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs that control the
1480behavior of the parser. See below for details.
1481
1482If no options are given, Pod::Man uses the name of the input file with any
1483trailing C<.pod>, C<.pm>, or C<.pl> stripped as the man page title, to
1484section 1 unless the file ended in C<.pm> in which case it defaults to
1485section 3, to a centered title of "User Contributed Perl Documentation", to
1486a centered footer of the Perl version it is run with, and to a left-hand
1487footer of the modification date of its input (or the current date if given
0e4e3f6e 1488C<STDIN> for input).
9741dab0 1489
1490Pod::Man assumes that your *roff formatters have a fixed-width font named
0e4e3f6e 1491C<CW>. If yours is called something else (like C<CR>), use the C<fixed>
1492option to specify it. This generally only matters for troff output for
1493printing. Similarly, you can set the fonts used for bold, italic, and
1494bold italic fixed-width output.
1495
1496Besides the obvious pod conversions, Pod::Man also takes care of
1497formatting func(), func(3), and simple variable references like $foo or
1498@bar so you don't have to use code escapes for them; complex expressions
1499like C<$fred{'stuff'}> will still need to be escaped, though. It also
1500translates dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes, makes long
1501dashes--like this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired quotes," makes C++
1502look right, puts a little space between double underscores, makes ALLCAPS
1503a teeny bit smaller in B<troff>, and escapes stuff that *roff treats as
1504special so that you don't have to.
9741dab0 1505
1506The recognized options to new() are as follows. All options take a single
1507argument.
1508
1509=over 4
1510
1511=item center
1512
1513Sets the centered page header to use instead of "User Contributed Perl
1514Documentation".
1515
1516=item date
1517
1518Sets the left-hand footer. By default, the modification date of the input
1519file will be used, or the current date if stat() can't find that file (the
0e4e3f6e 1520case if the input is from C<STDIN>), and the date will be formatted as
1521C<YYYY-MM-DD>.
9741dab0 1522
1523=item fixed
1524
0e4e3f6e 1525The fixed-width font to use for verbatim text and code. Defaults to
1526C<CW>. Some systems may want C<CR> instead. Only matters for B<troff>
1527output.
9741dab0 1528
1529=item fixedbold
1530
0e4e3f6e 1531Bold version of the fixed-width font. Defaults to C<CB>. Only matters
1532for B<troff> output.
9741dab0 1533
1534=item fixeditalic
1535
1536Italic version of the fixed-width font (actually, something of a misnomer,
1537since most fixed-width fonts only have an oblique version, not an italic
0e4e3f6e 1538version). Defaults to C<CI>. Only matters for B<troff> output.
9741dab0 1539
1540=item fixedbolditalic
1541
1542Bold italic (probably actually oblique) version of the fixed-width font.
0e4e3f6e 1543Pod::Man doesn't assume you have this, and defaults to C<CB>. Some
1544systems (such as Solaris) have this font available as C<CX>. Only matters
1545for B<troff> output.
9741dab0 1546
bf202ccd 1547=item name
1548
1549Set the name of the manual page. Without this option, the manual name is
1550set to the uppercased base name of the file being converted unless the
1551manual section is 3, in which case the path is parsed to see if it is a Perl
1552module path. If it is, a path like C<.../lib/Pod/Man.pm> is converted into
1553a name like C<Pod::Man>. This option, if given, overrides any automatic
1554determination of the name.
1555
ab1f1d91 1556=item quotes
1557
1558Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
1559single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two
1560characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as
1561the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as
1562the left quote and the second two as the right quote.
1563
1564This may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote
1565marks are added around CE<lt>> text (but the font is still changed for troff
1566output).
1567
9741dab0 1568=item release
1569
1570Set the centered footer. By default, this is the version of Perl you run
bf202ccd 1571Pod::Man under. Note that some system an macro sets assume that the
9741dab0 1572centered footer will be a modification date and will prepend something like
1573"Last modified: "; if this is the case, you may want to set C<release> to
1574the last modified date and C<date> to the version number.
1575
1576=item section
1577
1578Set the section for the C<.TH> macro. The standard section numbering
1579convention is to use 1 for user commands, 2 for system calls, 3 for
1580functions, 4 for devices, 5 for file formats, 6 for games, 7 for
1581miscellaneous information, and 8 for administrator commands. There is a lot
1582of variation here, however; some systems (like Solaris) use 4 for file
1583formats, 5 for miscellaneous information, and 7 for devices. Still others
1584use 1m instead of 8, or some mix of both. About the only section numbers
1585that are reliably consistent are 1, 2, and 3.
1586
0e4e3f6e 1587By default, section 1 will be used unless the file ends in C<.pm> in which
1588case section 3 will be selected.
9741dab0 1589
bc9c7511 1590=item stderr
1591
1592Send error messages about invalid POD to standard error instead of
1593appending a POD ERRORS section to the generated *roff output.
1594
55595e83 1595=item utf8
1596
1597By default, Pod::Man produces the most conservative possible *roff output
1598to try to ensure that it will work with as many different *roff
1599implementations as possible. Many *roff implementations cannot handle
1600non-ASCII characters, so this means all non-ASCII characters are converted
1601either to a *roff escape sequence that tries to create a properly accented
1602character (at least for troff output) or to C<X>.
1603
1604If this option is set, Pod::Man will instead output UTF-8. If your *roff
1605implementation can handle it, this is the best output format to use and
1606avoids corruption of documents containing non-ASCII characters. However,
1607be warned that *roff source with literal UTF-8 characters is not supported
1608by many implementations and may even result in segfaults and other bad
1609behavior.
1610
9741dab0 1611=back
1612
b7ae008f 1613The standard Pod::Simple method parse_file() takes one argument naming the
0e4e3f6e 1614POD file to read from. By default, the output is sent to C<STDOUT>, but
1615this can be changed with the output_fd() method.
b7ae008f 1616
1617The standard Pod::Simple method parse_from_file() takes up to two
1618arguments, the first being the input file to read POD from and the second
1619being the file to write the formatted output to.
1620
1621You can also call parse_lines() to parse an array of lines or
1622parse_string_document() to parse a document already in memory. To put the
1623output into a string instead of a file handle, call the output_string()
1624method. See L<Pod::Simple> for the specific details.
9741dab0 1625
1626=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
1627
1628=over 4
1629
ab1f1d91 1630=item roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s"
9741dab0 1631
1632(F) You specified a *roff font (using C<fixed>, C<fixedbold>, etc.) that
1633wasn't either one or two characters. Pod::Man doesn't support *roff fonts
1634longer than two characters, although some *roff extensions do (the canonical
bf202ccd 1635versions of B<nroff> and B<troff> don't either).
9741dab0 1636
ab1f1d91 1637=item Invalid quote specification "%s"
1638
1639(F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
1640invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
1641
9741dab0 1642=back
1643
1644=head1 BUGS
1645
b4558dc4 1646There is currently no way to turn off the guesswork that tries to format
1647unmarked text appropriately, and sometimes it isn't wanted (particularly
b7ae008f 1648when using POD to document something other than Perl). Most of the work
1649towards fixing this has now been done, however, and all that's still needed
1650is a user interface.
9741dab0 1651
1652The NAME section should be recognized specially and index entries emitted
1653for everything in that section. This would have to be deferred until the
1654next section, since extraneous things in NAME tends to confuse various man
b7ae008f 1655page processors. Currently, no index entries are emitted for anything in
1656NAME.
9741dab0 1657
9741dab0 1658Pod::Man doesn't handle font names longer than two characters. Neither do
bf202ccd 1659most B<troff> implementations, but GNU troff does as an extension. It would
9741dab0 1660be nice to support as an option for those who want to use it.
1661
b7ae008f 1662The preamble added to each output file is rather verbose, and most of it
1663is only necessary in the presence of non-ASCII characters. It would
1664ideally be nice if all of those definitions were only output if needed,
1665perhaps on the fly as the characters are used.
9741dab0 1666
9741dab0 1667Pod::Man is excessively slow.
1668
b4558dc4 1669=head1 CAVEATS
1670
1671The handling of hyphens and em dashes is somewhat fragile, and one may get
1672the wrong one under some circumstances. This should only matter for
1673B<troff> output.
1674
1675When and whether to use small caps is somewhat tricky, and Pod::Man doesn't
1676necessarily get it right.
1677
b7ae008f 1678Converting neutral double quotes to properly matched double quotes doesn't
1679work unless there are no formatting codes between the quote marks. This
1680only matters for troff output.
1681
1682=head1 AUTHOR
1683
1684Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, based I<very> heavily on the original
1685B<pod2man> by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>. The modifications to
1686work with Pod::Simple instead of Pod::Parser were originally contributed by
1687Sean Burke (but I've since hacked them beyond recognition and all bugs are
1688mine).
1689
1690=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
1691
0e4e3f6e 1692Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
1693Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
b7ae008f 1694
1695This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
1696under the same terms as Perl itself.
1697
9741dab0 1698=head1 SEE ALSO
1699
b7ae008f 1700L<Pod::Simple>, L<perlpod(1)>, L<pod2man(1)>, L<nroff(1)>, L<troff(1)>,
bf202ccd 1701L<man(1)>, L<man(7)>
9741dab0 1702
1703Ossanna, Joseph F., and Brian W. Kernighan. "Troff User's Manual,"
1704Computing Science Technical Report No. 54, AT&T Bell Laboratories. This is
bf202ccd 1705the best documentation of standard B<nroff> and B<troff>. At the time of
1706this writing, it's available at
1707L<http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html>.
9741dab0 1708
bf202ccd 1709The man page documenting the man macro set may be L<man(5)> instead of
1710L<man(7)> on your system. Also, please see L<pod2man(1)> for extensive
1711documentation on writing manual pages if you've not done it before and
1712aren't familiar with the conventions.
9741dab0 1713
fd20da51 1714The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
1715L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
1716Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
1717
9741dab0 1718=cut