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9741dab0 1# Pod::Man -- Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
50a3fd2a 2# $Id: Man.pm,v 1.10 2000/11/19 05:46:19 eagle Exp $
9741dab0 3#
c9abbd5d 4# Copyright 1999, 2000 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
9741dab0 5#
6# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
7# under the same terms as Perl itself.
8#
c9abbd5d 9# This module is intended to be a replacement for the pod2man script
10# distributed with versions of Perl prior to 5.6, and attempts to match its
11# output except for some specific circumstances where other decisions seemed
12# to produce better output. It uses Pod::Parser and is designed to be easy
13# to subclass.
14#
15# Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
16# maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
17# me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
18# standard Perl mailing lists.
9741dab0 19
20############################################################################
21# Modules and declarations
22############################################################################
23
24package Pod::Man;
25
26require 5.004;
27
28use Carp qw(carp croak);
29use Pod::Parser ();
30
31use strict;
32use subs qw(makespace);
33use vars qw(@ISA %ESCAPES $PREAMBLE $VERSION);
34
35@ISA = qw(Pod::Parser);
36
c9abbd5d 37# Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in
38# Perl core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings.
39# This number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators,
40# however.
50a3fd2a 41$VERSION = 1.10;
9741dab0 42
43
44############################################################################
45# Preamble and *roff output tables
46############################################################################
47
48# The following is the static preamble which starts all *roff output we
49# generate. It's completely static except for the font to use as a
ab1f1d91 50# fixed-width font, which is designed by @CFONT@, and the left and right
51# quotes to use for C<> text, designated by @LQOUTE@ and @RQUOTE@.
52# $PREAMBLE should therefore be run through s/\@CFONT\@/<font>/g before
53# output.
9741dab0 54$PREAMBLE = <<'----END OF PREAMBLE----';
55.de Sh \" Subsection heading
56.br
57.if t .Sp
58.ne 5
59.PP
60\fB\\$1\fR
61.PP
62..
63.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
64.if t .sp .5v
65.if n .sp
66..
67.de Ip \" List item
68.br
69.ie \\n(.$>=3 .ne \\$3
70.el .ne 3
71.IP "\\$1" \\$2
72..
73.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text
74.ft @CFONT@
75.nf
76.ne \\$1
77..
78.de Ve \" End verbatim text
79.ft R
80
81.fi
82..
83.\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will
84.\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left
85.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. | will give a
86.\" real vertical bar. \*(C+ will give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used
87.\" to do unbreakable dashes and therefore won't be available. \*(C` and
88.\" \*(C' expand to `' in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>
89.tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr
90.ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p'
91.ie n \{\
92. ds -- \(*W-
93. ds PI pi
94. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch
95. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch
96. ds L" ""
97. ds R" ""
ab1f1d91 98. ds C` @LQUOTE@
99. ds C' @RQUOTE@
9741dab0 100'br\}
101.el\{\
102. ds -- \|\(em\|
103. ds PI \(*p
104. ds L" ``
105. ds R" ''
106'br\}
107.\"
108.\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr
109.\" for titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and
110.\" index entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process
111.\" the output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
112.if \nF \{\
113. de IX
114. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
f3248e50 115..
9741dab0 116. nr % 0
117. rr F
118.\}
119.\"
120.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it
121.\" makes way too many mistakes in technical documents.
122.hy 0
123.if n .na
124.\"
125.\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2).
126.\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts.
127.bd B 3
128. \" fudge factors for nroff and troff
129.if n \{\
130. ds #H 0
131. ds #V .8m
132. ds #F .3m
133. ds #[ \f1
134. ds #] \fP
135.\}
136.if t \{\
137. ds #H ((1u-(\\\\n(.fu%2u))*.13m)
138. ds #V .6m
139. ds #F 0
140. ds #[ \&
141. ds #] \&
142.\}
143. \" simple accents for nroff and troff
144.if n \{\
145. ds ' \&
146. ds ` \&
147. ds ^ \&
148. ds , \&
149. ds ~ ~
150. ds /
151.\}
152.if t \{\
153. ds ' \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\'\h"|\\n:u"
154. ds ` \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\`\h'|\\n:u'
155. ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'^\h'|\\n:u'
156. ds , \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10)',\h'|\\n:u'
157. ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu-\*(#H-.1m)'~\h'|\\n:u'
158. ds / \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\z\(sl\h'|\\n:u'
159.\}
160. \" troff and (daisy-wheel) nroff accents
161.ds : \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H+.1m+\*(#F)'\v'-\*(#V'\z.\h'.2m+\*(#F'.\h'|\\n:u'\v'\*(#V'
162.ds 8 \h'\*(#H'\(*b\h'-\*(#H'
163.ds o \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu+\w'\(de'u-\*(#H)/2u'\v'-.3n'\*(#[\z\(de\v'.3n'\h'|\\n:u'\*(#]
164.ds d- \h'\*(#H'\(pd\h'-\w'~'u'\v'-.25m'\f2\(hy\fP\v'.25m'\h'-\*(#H'
165.ds D- D\\k:\h'-\w'D'u'\v'-.11m'\z\(hy\v'.11m'\h'|\\n:u'
166.ds th \*(#[\v'.3m'\s+1I\s-1\v'-.3m'\h'-(\w'I'u*2/3)'\s-1o\s+1\*(#]
167.ds Th \*(#[\s+2I\s-2\h'-\w'I'u*3/5'\v'-.3m'o\v'.3m'\*(#]
168.ds ae a\h'-(\w'a'u*4/10)'e
169.ds Ae A\h'-(\w'A'u*4/10)'E
170. \" corrections for vroff
171.if v .ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H)'\s-2\u~\d\s+2\h'|\\n:u'
172.if v .ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'\v'-.4m'^\v'.4m'\h'|\\n:u'
173. \" for low resolution devices (crt and lpr)
174.if \n(.H>23 .if \n(.V>19 \
175\{\
176. ds : e
177. ds 8 ss
178. ds o a
179. ds d- d\h'-1'\(ga
180. ds D- D\h'-1'\(hy
181. ds th \o'bp'
182. ds Th \o'LP'
183. ds ae ae
184. ds Ae AE
185.\}
186.rm #[ #] #H #V #F C
187----END OF PREAMBLE----
5cdeb5a2 188#`# for cperl-mode
189
9741dab0 190# This table is taken nearly verbatim from Tom Christiansen's pod2man. It
191# assumes that the standard preamble has already been printed, since that's
192# what defines all of the accent marks. Note that some of these are quoted
193# with double quotes since they contain embedded single quotes, so use \\
194# uniformly for backslash for readability.
195%ESCAPES = (
196 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
197 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
198 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
199 'quot' => '"', # double quote
ab1f1d91 200 'sol' => '/', # solidus (forward slash)
be3174d2 201 'verbar' => '|', # vertical bar
9741dab0 202
203 'Aacute' => "A\\*'", # capital A, acute accent
204 'aacute' => "a\\*'", # small a, acute accent
205 'Acirc' => 'A\\*^', # capital A, circumflex accent
206 'acirc' => 'a\\*^', # small a, circumflex accent
207 'AElig' => '\*(AE', # capital AE diphthong (ligature)
208 'aelig' => '\*(ae', # small ae diphthong (ligature)
209 'Agrave' => "A\\*`", # capital A, grave accent
210 'agrave' => "A\\*`", # small a, grave accent
211 'Aring' => 'A\\*o', # capital A, ring
212 'aring' => 'a\\*o', # small a, ring
213 'Atilde' => 'A\\*~', # capital A, tilde
214 'atilde' => 'a\\*~', # small a, tilde
215 'Auml' => 'A\\*:', # capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
216 'auml' => 'a\\*:', # small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
217 'Ccedil' => 'C\\*,', # capital C, cedilla
218 'ccedil' => 'c\\*,', # small c, cedilla
219 'Eacute' => "E\\*'", # capital E, acute accent
220 'eacute' => "e\\*'", # small e, acute accent
221 'Ecirc' => 'E\\*^', # capital E, circumflex accent
222 'ecirc' => 'e\\*^', # small e, circumflex accent
223 'Egrave' => 'E\\*`', # capital E, grave accent
224 'egrave' => 'e\\*`', # small e, grave accent
225 'ETH' => '\\*(D-', # capital Eth, Icelandic
226 'eth' => '\\*(d-', # small eth, Icelandic
227 'Euml' => 'E\\*:', # capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
228 'euml' => 'e\\*:', # small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
229 'Iacute' => "I\\*'", # capital I, acute accent
230 'iacute' => "i\\*'", # small i, acute accent
231 'Icirc' => 'I\\*^', # capital I, circumflex accent
232 'icirc' => 'i\\*^', # small i, circumflex accent
233 'Igrave' => 'I\\*`', # capital I, grave accent
234 'igrave' => 'i\\*`', # small i, grave accent
235 'Iuml' => 'I\\*:', # capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
236 'iuml' => 'i\\*:', # small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
237 'Ntilde' => 'N\*~', # capital N, tilde
238 'ntilde' => 'n\*~', # small n, tilde
239 'Oacute' => "O\\*'", # capital O, acute accent
240 'oacute' => "o\\*'", # small o, acute accent
241 'Ocirc' => 'O\\*^', # capital O, circumflex accent
242 'ocirc' => 'o\\*^', # small o, circumflex accent
243 'Ograve' => 'O\\*`', # capital O, grave accent
244 'ograve' => 'o\\*`', # small o, grave accent
245 'Oslash' => 'O\\*/', # capital O, slash
246 'oslash' => 'o\\*/', # small o, slash
247 'Otilde' => 'O\\*~', # capital O, tilde
248 'otilde' => 'o\\*~', # small o, tilde
249 'Ouml' => 'O\\*:', # capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
250 'ouml' => 'o\\*:', # small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
251 'szlig' => '\*8', # small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
252 'THORN' => '\\*(Th', # capital THORN, Icelandic
253 'thorn' => '\\*(th', # small thorn, Icelandic
254 'Uacute' => "U\\*'", # capital U, acute accent
255 'uacute' => "u\\*'", # small u, acute accent
256 'Ucirc' => 'U\\*^', # capital U, circumflex accent
257 'ucirc' => 'u\\*^', # small u, circumflex accent
258 'Ugrave' => 'U\\*`', # capital U, grave accent
259 'ugrave' => 'u\\*`', # small u, grave accent
260 'Uuml' => 'U\\*:', # capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
261 'uuml' => 'u\\*:', # small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
262 'Yacute' => "Y\\*'", # capital Y, acute accent
263 'yacute' => "y\\*'", # small y, acute accent
264 'yuml' => 'y\\*:', # small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
265);
266
267
268############################################################################
269# Static helper functions
270############################################################################
271
44464a02 272# Protect leading quotes and periods against interpretation as commands.
273# Also protect anything starting with a backslash, since it could expand
274# or hide something that *roff would interpret as a command. This is
275# overkill, but it's much simpler than trying to parse *roff here.
c9abbd5d 276sub protect {
277 local $_ = shift;
44464a02 278 s/^([.\'\\])/\\&$1/mg;
c9abbd5d 279 $_;
280}
5cdeb5a2 281
9741dab0 282# Translate a font string into an escape.
283sub toescape { (length ($_[0]) > 1 ? '\f(' : '\f') . $_[0] }
284
5cdeb5a2 285
9741dab0 286############################################################################
287# Initialization
288############################################################################
289
290# Initialize the object. Here, we also process any additional options
291# passed to the constructor or set up defaults if none were given. center
292# is the centered title, release is the version number, and date is the date
293# for the documentation. Note that we can't know what file name we're
294# processing due to the architecture of Pod::Parser, so that *has* to either
295# be passed to the constructor or set separately with Pod::Man::name().
296sub initialize {
297 my $self = shift;
298
299 # Figure out the fixed-width font. If user-supplied, make sure that
300 # they are the right length.
301 for (qw/fixed fixedbold fixeditalic fixedbolditalic/) {
302 if (defined $$self{$_}) {
303 if (length ($$self{$_}) < 1 || length ($$self{$_}) > 2) {
ab1f1d91 304 croak qq(roff font should be 1 or 2 chars,)
305 . qq( not "$$self{$_}");
9741dab0 306 }
307 } else {
308 $$self{$_} = '';
309 }
310 }
311
312 # Set the default fonts. We can't be sure what fixed bold-italic is
313 # going to be called, so default to just bold.
314 $$self{fixed} ||= 'CW';
315 $$self{fixedbold} ||= 'CB';
316 $$self{fixeditalic} ||= 'CI';
317 $$self{fixedbolditalic} ||= 'CB';
318
319 # Set up a table of font escapes. First number is fixed-width, second
320 # is bold, third is italic.
321 $$self{FONTS} = { '000' => '\fR', '001' => '\fI',
322 '010' => '\fB', '011' => '\f(BI',
323 '100' => toescape ($$self{fixed}),
324 '101' => toescape ($$self{fixeditalic}),
325 '110' => toescape ($$self{fixedbold}),
326 '111' => toescape ($$self{fixedbolditalic})};
327
328 # Extra stuff for page titles.
329 $$self{center} = 'User Contributed Perl Documentation'
330 unless defined $$self{center};
331 $$self{indent} = 4 unless defined $$self{indent};
332
333 # We used to try first to get the version number from a local binary,
334 # but we shouldn't need that any more. Get the version from the running
c9abbd5d 335 # Perl. Work a little magic to handle subversions correctly under both
336 # the pre-5.6 and the post-5.6 version numbering schemes.
9741dab0 337 if (!defined $$self{release}) {
c9abbd5d 338 my @version = ($] =~ /^(\d+)\.(\d{3})(\d{0,3})$/);
339 $version[2] ||= 0;
340 $version[2] *= 10 ** (3 - length $version[2]);
341 for (@version) { $_ += 0 }
342 $$self{release} = 'perl v' . join ('.', @version);
9741dab0 343 }
344
345 # Double quotes in things that will be quoted.
c9abbd5d 346 for (qw/center date release/) {
347 $$self{$_} =~ s/\"/\"\"/g if $$self{$_};
348 }
9741dab0 349
ab1f1d91 350 # Figure out what quotes we'll be using for C<> text.
5cdeb5a2 351 $$self{quotes} ||= '"';
ab1f1d91 352 if ($$self{quotes} eq 'none') {
353 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
354 } elsif (length ($$self{quotes}) == 1) {
355 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{quotes};
356 } elsif ($$self{quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
357 || $$self{quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
358 $$self{LQUOTE} = $1;
359 $$self{RQUOTE} = $2;
360 } else {
361 croak qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{quotes}");
362 }
363
364 # Double the first quote; note that this should not be s///g as two
365 # double quotes is represented in *roff as three double quotes, not
366 # four. Weird, I know.
367 $$self{LQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
368 $$self{RQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
369
9741dab0 370 $$self{INDENT} = 0; # Current indentation level.
371 $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
372 $$self{INDEX} = []; # Index keys waiting to be printed.
5cdeb5a2 373 $$self{ITEMS} = 0; # The number of consecutive =items.
9741dab0 374
375 $self->SUPER::initialize;
376}
377
ab1f1d91 378# For each document we process, output the preamble first.
9741dab0 379sub begin_pod {
380 my $self = shift;
381
382 # Try to figure out the name and section from the file name.
383 my $section = $$self{section} || 1;
384 my $name = $$self{name};
385 if (!defined $name) {
386 $name = $self->input_file;
fe6f1558 387 $section = 3 if (!$$self{section} && $name =~ /\.pm\z/i);
388 $name =~ s/\.p(od|[lm])\z//i;
9741dab0 389 if ($section =~ /^1/) {
390 require File::Basename;
391 $name = uc File::Basename::basename ($name);
392 } else {
393 # Lose everything up to the first of
394 # */lib/*perl* standard or site_perl module
395 # */*perl*/lib from -D prefix=/opt/perl
396 # */*perl*/ random module hierarchy
c88ded47 397 # which works. Should be fixed to use File::Spec. Also handle
398 # a leading lib/ since that's what ExtUtils::MakeMaker creates.
9741dab0 399 for ($name) {
400 s%//+%/%g;
c9abbd5d 401 if ( s%^.*?/lib/[^/]*perl[^/]*/%%si
402 or s%^.*?/[^/]*perl[^/]*/(?:lib/)?%%si) {
403 s%^site(_perl)?/%%s; # site and site_perl
404 s%^(.*-$^O|$^O-.*)/%%so; # arch
405 s%^\d+\.\d+%%s; # version
9741dab0 406 }
c88ded47 407 s%^lib/%%;
9741dab0 408 s%/%::%g;
409 }
410 }
411 }
412
413 # Modification date header. Try to use the modification time of our
414 # input.
415 if (!defined $$self{date}) {
416 my $time = (stat $self->input_file)[9] || time;
417 my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime $time)[3,4,5];
418 $month++;
419 $year += 1900;
c9abbd5d 420 $$self{date} = sprintf ('%4d-%02d-%02d', $year, $month, $day);
9741dab0 421 }
422
423 # Now, print out the preamble and the title.
ab1f1d91 424 local $_ = $PREAMBLE;
425 s/\@CFONT\@/$$self{fixed}/;
426 s/\@LQUOTE\@/$$self{LQUOTE}/;
427 s/\@RQUOTE\@/$$self{RQUOTE}/;
428 chomp $_;
9741dab0 429 print { $self->output_handle } <<"----END OF HEADER----";
430.\\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man version $VERSION
431.\\" @{[ scalar localtime ]}
432.\\"
433.\\" Standard preamble:
434.\\" ======================================================================
ab1f1d91 435$_
9741dab0 436.\\" ======================================================================
437.\\"
438.IX Title "$name $section"
439.TH $name $section "$$self{release}" "$$self{date}" "$$self{center}"
440.UC
441----END OF HEADER----
442#"# for cperl-mode
443
444 # Initialize a few per-file variables.
445 $$self{INDENT} = 0;
446 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
447}
448
449
450############################################################################
451# Core overrides
452############################################################################
453
454# Called for each command paragraph. Gets the command, the associated
455# paragraph, the line number, and a Pod::Paragraph object. Just dispatches
456# the command to a method named the same as the command. =cut is handled
457# internally by Pod::Parser.
458sub command {
459 my $self = shift;
460 my $command = shift;
461 return if $command eq 'pod';
ab1f1d91 462 return if ($$self{EXCLUDE} && $command ne 'end');
463 if ($self->can ('cmd_' . $command)) {
464 $command = 'cmd_' . $command;
844b31e3 465 $self->$command (@_);
ab1f1d91 466 } else {
467 my ($text, $line, $paragraph) = @_;
5cdeb5a2 468 my $file;
469 ($file, $line) = $paragraph->file_line;
ab1f1d91 470 $text =~ s/\n+\z//;
471 $text = " $text" if ($text =~ /^\S/);
472 warn qq($file:$line: Unknown command paragraph "=$command$text"\n);
473 return;
844b31e3 474 }
9741dab0 475}
476
477# Called for a verbatim paragraph. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and
478# a Pod::Paragraph object. Rofficate backslashes, untabify, put a
479# zero-width character at the beginning of each line to protect against
480# commands, and wrap in .Vb/.Ve.
481sub verbatim {
482 my $self = shift;
483 return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
484 local $_ = shift;
485 return if /^\s+$/;
486 s/\s+$/\n/;
487 my $lines = tr/\n/\n/;
488 1 while s/^(.*?)(\t+)/$1 . ' ' x (length ($2) * 8 - length ($1) % 8)/me;
489 s/\\/\\e/g;
490 s/^(\s*\S)/'\&' . $1/gme;
5cdeb5a2 491 $self->makespace;
9741dab0 492 $self->output (".Vb $lines\n$_.Ve\n");
493 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
494}
495
496# Called for a regular text block. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and
497# a Pod::Paragraph object. Perform interpolation and output the results.
498sub textblock {
499 my $self = shift;
500 return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
501 $self->output ($_[0]), return if $$self{VERBATIM};
502
503 # Perform a little magic to collapse multiple L<> references. We'll
504 # just rewrite the whole thing into actual text at this part, bypassing
505 # the whole internal sequence parsing thing.
c9abbd5d 506 my $text = shift;
507 $text =~ s{
9741dab0 508 (L< # A link of the form L</something>.
509 /
510 (
511 [:\w]+ # The item has to be a simple word...
512 (\(\))? # ...or simple function.
513 )
514 >
515 (
516 ,?\s+(and\s+)? # Allow lots of them, conjuncted.
5cdeb5a2 517 L<
9741dab0 518 /
519 ( [:\w]+ ( \(\) )? )
520 >
521 )+
522 )
523 } {
524 local $_ = $1;
c9abbd5d 525 s{ L< / ( [^>]+ ) > } {$1}xg;
9741dab0 526 my @items = split /(?:,?\s+(?:and\s+)?)/;
c9abbd5d 527 my $string = 'the ';
9741dab0 528 my $i;
529 for ($i = 0; $i < @items; $i++) {
530 $string .= $items[$i];
c9abbd5d 531 $string .= ', ' if @items > 2 && $i != $#items;
532 $string .= ' ' if @items == 2 && $i == 2;
533 $string .= 'and ' if ($i == $#items - 1);
9741dab0 534 }
c9abbd5d 535 $string .= ' entries elsewhere in this document';
9741dab0 536 $string;
537 }gex;
538
539 # Parse the tree and output it. collapse knows about references to
540 # scalars as well as scalars and does the right thing with them.
c9abbd5d 541 $text = $self->parse ($text, @_);
542 $text =~ s/\n\s*$/\n/;
5cdeb5a2 543 $self->makespace;
50a3fd2a 544 $self->output (protect $self->textmapfonts ($text));
9741dab0 545 $self->outindex;
546 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
547}
548
549# Called for an interior sequence. Takes a Pod::InteriorSequence object and
550# returns a reference to a scalar. This scalar is the final formatted text.
551# It's returned as a reference so that other interior sequences above us
552# know that the text has already been processed.
553sub sequence {
554 my ($self, $seq) = @_;
555 my $command = $seq->cmd_name;
556
557 # Zero-width characters.
f5daac4a 558 if ($command eq 'Z') {
c9abbd5d 559 # Workaround to generate a blessable reference, needed by 5.005.
560 my $tmp = '\&';
561 return bless \ "$tmp", 'Pod::Man::String';
f5daac4a 562 }
9741dab0 563
a3e04946 564 # C<>, L<>, X<>, and E<> don't apply guesswork to their contents. C<>
565 # needs some additional special handling.
566 my $literal = ($command =~ /^[CELX]$/);
567 $literal++ if $command eq 'C';
568 local $_ = $self->collapse ($seq->parse_tree, $literal);
9741dab0 569
570 # Handle E<> escapes.
571 if ($command eq 'E') {
2e20e14f 572 if (/^\d+$/) {
573 return bless \ chr ($_), 'Pod::Man::String';
574 } elsif (exists $ESCAPES{$_}) {
9741dab0 575 return bless \ "$ESCAPES{$_}", 'Pod::Man::String';
576 } else {
577 carp "Unknown escape E<$1>";
578 return bless \ "E<$_>", 'Pod::Man::String';
579 }
580 }
581
582 # For all the other sequences, empty content produces no output.
583 return '' if $_ eq '';
584
585 # Handle formatting sequences.
586 if ($command eq 'B') {
587 return bless \ ('\f(BS' . $_ . '\f(BE'), 'Pod::Man::String';
588 } elsif ($command eq 'F') {
589 return bless \ ('\f(IS' . $_ . '\f(IE'), 'Pod::Man::String';
590 } elsif ($command eq 'I') {
591 return bless \ ('\f(IS' . $_ . '\f(IE'), 'Pod::Man::String';
592 } elsif ($command eq 'C') {
9741dab0 593 return bless \ ('\f(FS\*(C`' . $_ . "\\*(C'\\f(FE"),
594 'Pod::Man::String';
595 }
596
597 # Handle links.
598 if ($command eq 'L') {
c9abbd5d 599 # A bug in lvalue subs in 5.6 requires the temporary variable.
600 my $tmp = $self->buildlink ($_);
601 return bless \ "$tmp", 'Pod::Man::String';
9741dab0 602 }
5cdeb5a2 603
9741dab0 604 # Whitespace protection replaces whitespace with "\ ".
605 if ($command eq 'S') {
606 s/\s+/\\ /g;
607 return bless \ "$_", 'Pod::Man::String';
608 }
609
610 # Add an index entry to the list of ones waiting to be output.
611 if ($command eq 'X') { push (@{ $$self{INDEX} }, $_); return '' }
612
613 # Anything else is unknown.
614 carp "Unknown sequence $command<$_>";
615}
616
617
618############################################################################
619# Command paragraphs
620############################################################################
621
622# All command paragraphs take the paragraph and the line number.
623
624# First level heading. We can't output .IX in the NAME section due to a bug
625# in some versions of catman, so don't output a .IX for that section. .SH
626# already uses small caps, so remove any E<> sequences that would cause
627# them.
628sub cmd_head1 {
629 my $self = shift;
630 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
631 s/\s+$//;
632 s/\\s-?\d//g;
5cdeb5a2 633 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
634 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
635 $self->output (".PD\n");
636 }
50a3fd2a 637 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.SH', $self->mapfonts ($_)));
9741dab0 638 $self->outindex (($_ eq 'NAME') ? () : ('Header', $_));
639 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
640}
641
642# Second level heading.
643sub cmd_head2 {
644 my $self = shift;
645 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
646 s/\s+$//;
5cdeb5a2 647 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
648 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
649 $self->output (".PD\n");
650 }
50a3fd2a 651 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.Sh', $self->mapfonts ($_)));
9741dab0 652 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $_);
653 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
654}
655
50a3fd2a 656# Third level heading.
657sub cmd_head3 {
658 my $self = shift;
659 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
660 s/\s+$//;
661 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
662 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
663 $self->output (".PD\n");
664 }
665 $self->makespace;
666 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.I', $self->mapfonts ($_)));
667 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $_);
668 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
669}
670
671# Fourth level heading.
672sub cmd_head4 {
673 my $self = shift;
674 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
675 s/\s+$//;
676 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
677 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
678 $self->output (".PD\n");
679 }
680 $self->makespace;
681 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ($_) . "\n");
682 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $_);
683 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
684}
685
9741dab0 686# Start a list. For indents after the first, wrap the outside indent in .RS
687# so that hanging paragraph tags will be correct.
688sub cmd_over {
689 my $self = shift;
690 local $_ = shift;
691 unless (/^[-+]?\d+\s+$/) { $_ = $$self{indent} }
692 if (@{ $$self{INDENTS} } > 0) {
693 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
694 }
695 push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
696 $$self{INDENT} = ($_ + 0);
697}
698
699# End a list. If we've closed an embedded indent, we've mangled the hanging
700# paragraph indent, so temporarily replace it with .RS and set WEIRDINDENT.
701# We'll close that .RS at the next =back or =item.
702sub cmd_back {
703 my $self = shift;
704 $$self{INDENT} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
705 unless (defined $$self{INDENT}) {
706 carp "Unmatched =back";
707 $$self{INDENT} = 0;
708 }
709 if ($$self{WEIRDINDENT}) {
710 $self->output (".RE\n");
711 $$self{WEIRDINDENT} = 0;
712 }
713 if (@{ $$self{INDENTS} } > 0) {
714 $self->output (".RE\n");
715 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
716 $$self{WEIRDINDENT} = 1;
717 }
718 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
719}
720
721# An individual list item. Emit an index entry for anything that's
722# interesting, but don't emit index entries for things like bullets and
723# numbers. rofficate bullets too while we're at it (so for nice output, use
46bce7d0 724# * for your lists rather than o or . or - or some other thing). Newlines
725# in an item title are turned into spaces since *roff can't handle them
726# embedded.
9741dab0 727sub cmd_item {
728 my $self = shift;
729 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
730 s/\s+$//;
46bce7d0 731 s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
9741dab0 732 my $index;
733 if (/\w/ && !/^\w[.\)]\s*$/) {
734 $index = $_;
fe2227f0 735 $index =~ s/^\s*[-*+o.]?(?:\s+|\Z)//;
9741dab0 736 }
737 s/^\*(\s|\Z)/\\\(bu$1/;
738 if ($$self{WEIRDINDENT}) {
739 $self->output (".RE\n");
740 $$self{WEIRDINDENT} = 0;
741 }
50a3fd2a 742 $_ = $self->textmapfonts ($_);
5cdeb5a2 743 $self->output (".PD 0\n") if ($$self{ITEMS} == 1);
50a3fd2a 744 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.Ip', $_, $$self{INDENT}));
9741dab0 745 $self->outindex ($index ? ('Item', $index) : ());
746 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
5cdeb5a2 747 $$self{ITEMS}++;
9741dab0 748}
749
750# Begin a block for a particular translator. Setting VERBATIM triggers
751# special handling in textblock().
752sub cmd_begin {
753 my $self = shift;
754 local $_ = shift;
755 my ($kind) = /^(\S+)/ or return;
756 if ($kind eq 'man' || $kind eq 'roff') {
757 $$self{VERBATIM} = 1;
758 } else {
759 $$self{EXCLUDE} = 1;
760 }
761}
762
763# End a block for a particular translator. We assume that all =begin/=end
764# pairs are properly closed.
765sub cmd_end {
766 my $self = shift;
767 $$self{EXCLUDE} = 0;
768 $$self{VERBATIM} = 0;
769}
770
771# One paragraph for a particular translator. Ignore it unless it's intended
772# for man or roff, in which case we output it verbatim.
773sub cmd_for {
774 my $self = shift;
775 local $_ = shift;
9741dab0 776 return unless s/^(?:man|roff)\b[ \t]*\n?//;
777 $self->output ($_);
778}
779
780
781############################################################################
782# Link handling
783############################################################################
784
785# Handle links. We can't actually make real hyperlinks, so this is all to
786# figure out what text and formatting we print out.
787sub buildlink {
788 my $self = shift;
789 local $_ = shift;
790
791 # Smash whitespace in case we were split across multiple lines.
792 s/\s+/ /g;
793
794 # If we were given any explicit text, just output it.
795 if (m{ ^ ([^|]+) \| }x) { return $1 }
796
797 # Okay, leading and trailing whitespace isn't important.
798 s/^\s+//;
799 s/\s+$//;
800
801 # Default to using the whole content of the link entry as a section
802 # name. Note that L<manpage/> forces a manpage interpretation, as does
803 # something looking like L<manpage(section)>. Do the same thing to
804 # L<manpage(section)> as we would to manpage(section) without the L<>;
805 # see guesswork(). If we've added italics, don't add the "manpage"
806 # text; markup is sufficient.
807 my ($manpage, $section) = ('', $_);
808 if (/^"\s*(.*?)\s*"$/) {
809 $section = '"' . $1 . '"';
810 } elsif (m{ ^ [-:.\w]+ (?: \( \S+ \) )? $ }x) {
811 ($manpage, $section) = ($_, '');
812 $manpage =~ s/^([^\(]+)\(/'\f(IS' . $1 . '\f(IE\|('/e;
813 } elsif (m%/%) {
814 ($manpage, $section) = split (/\s*\/\s*/, $_, 2);
815 if ($manpage =~ /^[-:.\w]+(?:\(\S+\))?$/) {
816 $manpage =~ s/^([^\(]+)\(/'\f(IS' . $1 . '\f(IE\|'/e;
817 }
818 $section =~ s/^\"\s*//;
819 $section =~ s/\s*\"$//;
820 }
821 if ($manpage && $manpage !~ /\\f\(IS/) {
822 $manpage = "the $manpage manpage";
823 }
824
825 # Now build the actual output text.
826 my $text = '';
827 if (!length ($section) && !length ($manpage)) {
828 carp "Invalid link $_";
829 } elsif (!length ($section)) {
830 $text = $manpage;
831 } elsif ($section =~ /^[:\w]+(?:\(\))?/) {
832 $text .= 'the ' . $section . ' entry';
833 $text .= (length $manpage) ? " in $manpage"
834 : " elsewhere in this document";
835 } else {
2e20e14f 836 if ($section !~ /^".*"$/) { $section = '"' . $section . '"' }
837 $text .= 'the section on ' . $section;
9741dab0 838 $text .= " in $manpage" if length $manpage;
839 }
840 $text;
841}
842
843
844############################################################################
845# Escaping and fontification
846############################################################################
847
848# At this point, we'll have embedded font codes of the form \f(<font>[SE]
849# where <font> is one of B, I, or F. Turn those into the right font start
50a3fd2a 850# or end codes. The old pod2man didn't get B<someI<thing> else> right;
851# after I<> it switched back to normal text rather than bold. We take care
852# of this by using variables as a combined pointer to our current font
853# sequence, and set each to the number of current nestings of start tags for
854# that font. Use them as a vector to look up what font sequence to use.
855#
856# \fP changes to the previous font, but only one previous font is kept. We
857# don't know what the outside level font is; normally it's R, but if we're
858# inside a heading it could be something else. So arrange things so that
859# the outside font is always the "previous" font and end with \fP instead of
860# \fR. Idea from Zack Weinberg.
9741dab0 861sub mapfonts {
862 my $self = shift;
863 local $_ = shift;
864
865 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
866 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
50a3fd2a 867 my $last = '\fR';
868 s { \\f\((.)(.) } {
869 my $sequence = '';
870 my $f;
871 if ($last ne '\fR') { $sequence = '\fP' }
872 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
873 $f = $$self{FONTS}{($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1)};
874 if ($f eq $last) {
875 '';
876 } else {
877 if ($f ne '\fR') { $sequence .= $f }
878 $last = $f;
879 $sequence;
880 }
881 }gxe;
882 $_;
883}
884
885# Unfortunately, there is a bug in Solaris 2.6 nroff (not present in GNU
886# groff) where the sequence \fB\fP\f(CW\fP leaves the font set to B rather
887# than R, presumably because \f(CW doesn't actually do a font change. To
888# work around this, use a separate textmapfonts for text blocks where the
889# default font is always R and only use the smart mapfonts for headings.
890sub textmapfonts {
891 my $self = shift;
892 local $_ = shift;
893
894 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
895 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
9741dab0 896 s { \\f\((.)(.) } {
897 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
898 $$self{FONTS}{($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1)};
899 }gxe;
900 $_;
901}
902
903
904############################################################################
905# *roff-specific parsing
906############################################################################
907
908# Called instead of parse_text, calls parse_text with the right flags.
909sub parse {
910 my $self = shift;
911 $self->parse_text ({ -expand_seq => 'sequence',
912 -expand_ptree => 'collapse' }, @_);
913}
5cdeb5a2 914
9741dab0 915# Takes a parse tree and a flag saying whether or not to treat it as literal
916# text (not call guesswork on it), and returns the concatenation of all of
917# the text strings in that parse tree. If the literal flag isn't true,
918# guesswork() will be called on all plain scalars in the parse tree.
a3e04946 919# Otherwise, just escape backslashes in the normal case. If collapse is
920# being called on a C<> sequence, literal is set to 2, and we do some
921# additional cleanup. Assumes that everything in the parse tree is either a
922# scalar or a reference to a scalar.
9741dab0 923sub collapse {
924 my ($self, $ptree, $literal) = @_;
925 if ($literal) {
926 return join ('', map {
927 if (ref $_) {
928 $$_;
929 } else {
930 s/\\/\\e/g;
a3e04946 931 s/-/\\-/g if $literal > 1;
932 s/__/_\\|_/g if $literal > 1;
9741dab0 933 $_;
934 }
935 } $ptree->children);
936 } else {
937 return join ('', map {
938 ref ($_) ? $$_ : $self->guesswork ($_)
939 } $ptree->children);
940 }
941}
942
943# Takes a text block to perform guesswork on; this is guaranteed not to
944# contain any interior sequences. Returns the text block with remapping
945# done.
946sub guesswork {
947 my $self = shift;
948 local $_ = shift;
949
950 # rofficate backslashes.
951 s/\\/\\e/g;
952
953 # Ensure double underbars have a tiny space between them.
954 s/__/_\\|_/g;
955
956 # Make all caps a little smaller. Be careful here, since we don't want
957 # to make @ARGV into small caps, nor do we want to fix the MIME in
958 # MIME-Version, since it looks weird with the full-height V.
959 s{
960 ( ^ | [\s\(\"\'\`\[\{<>] )
961 ( [A-Z] [A-Z] [/A-Z+:\d_\$&-]* )
962 (?: (?= [\s>\}\]\)\'\".?!,;:] | -- ) | $ )
c9abbd5d 963 } { $1 . '\s-1' . $2 . '\s0' }egx;
9741dab0 964
965 # Turn PI into a pretty pi.
966 s{ (?: \\s-1 | \b ) PI (?: \\s0 | \b ) } {\\*\(PI}gx;
967
968 # Italize functions in the form func().
969 s{
970 \b
971 (
972 [:\w]+ (?:\\s-1)? \(\)
973 )
974 } { '\f(IS' . $1 . '\f(IE' }egx;
975
976 # func(n) is a reference to a manual page. Make it \fIfunc\fR\|(n).
977 s{
978 \b
979 (\w[-:.\w]+ (?:\\s-1)?)
980 (
981 \( [^\)] \)
982 )
983 } { '\f(IS' . $1 . '\f(IE\|' . $2 }egx;
984
985 # Convert simple Perl variable references to a fixed-width font.
986 s{
987 ( \s+ )
988 ( [\$\@%] [\w:]+ )
989 (?! \( )
990 } { $1 . '\f(FS' . $2 . '\f(FE'}egx;
991
992 # Translate -- into a real em dash if it's used like one and fix up
993 # dashes, but keep hyphens hyphens.
994 s{ (\G|^|.) (-+) (\b|.) } {
995 my ($pre, $dash, $post) = ($1, $2, $3);
996 if (length ($dash) == 1) {
997 ($pre =~ /[a-zA-Z]/) ? "$pre-$post" : "$pre\\-$post";
998 } elsif (length ($dash) == 2
999 && ((!$pre && !$post)
1000 || ($pre =~ /\w/ && !$post)
1001 || ($pre eq ' ' && $post eq ' ')
1002 || ($pre eq '=' && $post ne '=')
1003 || ($pre ne '=' && $post eq '='))) {
1004 "$pre\\*(--$post";
1005 } else {
1006 $pre . ('\-' x length $dash) . $post;
1007 }
1008 }egxs;
1009
1010 # Fix up double quotes.
1011 s{ \" ([^\"]+) \" } { '\*(L"' . $1 . '\*(R"' }egx;
1012
1013 # Make C++ into \*(C+, which is a squinched version.
1014 s{ \b C\+\+ } {\\*\(C+}gx;
1015
1016 # All done.
1017 $_;
1018}
1019
1020
1021############################################################################
1022# Output formatting
1023############################################################################
1024
1025# Make vertical whitespace.
1026sub makespace {
1027 my $self = shift;
5cdeb5a2 1028 $self->output (".PD\n") if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1);
1029 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
1030 $self->output ($$self{INDENT} > 0 ? ".Sp\n" : ".PP\n")
1031 if $$self{NEEDSPACE};
9741dab0 1032}
1033
1034# Output any pending index entries, and optionally an index entry given as
1035# an argument. Support multiple index entries in X<> separated by slashes,
1036# and strip special escapes from index entries.
1037sub outindex {
1038 my ($self, $section, $index) = @_;
1039 my @entries = map { split m%\s*/\s*% } @{ $$self{INDEX} };
1040 return unless ($section || @entries);
1041 $$self{INDEX} = [];
1042 my $output;
1043 if (@entries) {
1044 my $output = '.IX Xref "'
1045 . join (' ', map { s/\"/\"\"/; $_ } @entries)
1046 . '"' . "\n";
1047 }
1048 if ($section) {
1049 $index =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
1050 $index =~ s/\\-/-/g;
1051 $index =~ s/\\(?:s-?\d|.\(..|.)//g;
1052 $output .= ".IX $section " . '"' . $index . '"' . "\n";
1053 }
1054 $self->output ($output);
1055}
1056
1057# Output text to the output device.
1058sub output { print { $_[0]->output_handle } $_[1] }
1059
50a3fd2a 1060# Given a command and a single argument that may or may not contain double
1061# quotes, handle double-quote formatting for it. If there are no double
1062# quotes, just return the command followed by the argument in double quotes.
1063# If there are double quotes, use an if statement to test for nroff, and for
1064# nroff output the command followed by the argument in double quotes with
1065# embedded double quotes doubled. For other formatters, remap paired double
1066# quotes to `` and ''.
1067sub switchquotes {
1068 my $self = shift;
1069 my $command = shift;
1070 local $_ = shift;
1071 my $extra = shift;
1072 s/\\\*\([LR]\"/\"/g;
1073
1074 # We also have to deal with \*C` and \*C', which are used to add the
1075 # quotes around C<> text, since they may expand to " and if they do this
1076 # confuses the .SH macros and the like no end.
1077 my $c_is_quote = ($$self{LQUOTE} =~ /\"/) || ($$self{RQUOTE} =~ /\"/);
1078 if (/\"/ || ($c_is_quote && /\\\*\(C[\'\`]/)) {
1079 s/\"/\"\"/g;
1080 my $troff = $_;
1081 $troff =~ s/\"\"([^\"]*)\"\"/\`\`$1\'\'/g;
1082 s/\"/\"\"/g if $extra;
1083 $troff =~ s/\"/\"\"/g if $extra;
1084 s/\\\*\(C\`/$$self{LQUOTE}/g;
1085 s/\\\*\(C\'/$$self{RQUOTE}/g;
1086 $troff =~ s/\\\*\(C[\'\`]//g;
1087 $_ = qq("$_") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
1088 $troff = qq("$troff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
1089 return ".if n $command $_\n.el $command $troff\n";
1090 } else {
1091 $_ = qq("$_") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
1092 return "$command $_\n";
1093 }
1094}
1095
9741dab0 1096__END__
1097
1098.\" These are some extra bits of roff that I don't want to lose track of
1099.\" but that have been removed from the preamble to make it a bit shorter
1100.\" since they're not currently being used. They're accents and special
1101.\" characters we don't currently have escapes for.
1102.if n \{\
1103. ds ? ?
1104. ds ! !
1105. ds q
1106.\}
1107.if t \{\
1108. ds ? \s-2c\h'-\w'c'u*7/10'\u\h'\*(#H'\zi\d\s+2\h'\w'c'u*8/10'
1109. ds ! \s-2\(or\s+2\h'-\w'\(or'u'\v'-.8m'.\v'.8m'
1110. ds q o\h'-\w'o'u*8/10'\s-4\v'.4m'\z\(*i\v'-.4m'\s+4\h'\w'o'u*8/10'
1111.\}
1112.ds v \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H)'\v'-\*(#V'\*(#[\s-4v\s0\v'\*(#V'\h'|\\n:u'\*(#]
1113.ds _ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H+(\*(#F*2/3))'\v'-.4m'\z\(hy\v'.4m'\h'|\\n:u'
1114.ds . \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10)'\v'\*(#V*4/10'\z.\v'-\*(#V*4/10'\h'|\\n:u'
1115.ds 3 \*(#[\v'.2m'\s-2\&3\s0\v'-.2m'\*(#]
1116.ds oe o\h'-(\w'o'u*4/10)'e
1117.ds Oe O\h'-(\w'O'u*4/10)'E
1118.if \n(.H>23 .if \n(.V>19 \
1119\{\
1120. ds v \h'-1'\o'\(aa\(ga'
1121. ds _ \h'-1'^
1122. ds . \h'-1'.
1123. ds 3 3
1124. ds oe oe
1125. ds Oe OE
1126.\}
1127
1128############################################################################
1129# Documentation
1130############################################################################
1131
1132=head1 NAME
1133
1134Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
1135
1136=head1 SYNOPSIS
1137
1138 use Pod::Man;
1139 my $parser = Pod::Man->new (release => $VERSION, section => 8);
1140
1141 # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
1142 $parser->parse_from_filehandle;
1143
1144 # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.1.
1145 $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.1');
1146
1147=head1 DESCRIPTION
1148
1149Pod::Man is a module to convert documentation in the POD format (the
1150preferred language for documenting Perl) into *roff input using the man
1151macro set. The resulting *roff code is suitable for display on a terminal
1152using nroff(1), normally via man(1), or printing using troff(1). It is
9e107c59 1153conventionally invoked using the driver script B<pod2man>, but it can also
9741dab0 1154be used directly.
1155
1156As a derived class from Pod::Parser, Pod::Man supports the same methods and
1157interfaces. See L<Pod::Parser> for all the details; briefly, one creates a
1158new parser with C<Pod::Man-E<gt>new()> and then calls either
1159parse_from_filehandle() or parse_from_file().
1160
1161new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs that control the
1162behavior of the parser. See below for details.
1163
1164If no options are given, Pod::Man uses the name of the input file with any
1165trailing C<.pod>, C<.pm>, or C<.pl> stripped as the man page title, to
1166section 1 unless the file ended in C<.pm> in which case it defaults to
1167section 3, to a centered title of "User Contributed Perl Documentation", to
1168a centered footer of the Perl version it is run with, and to a left-hand
1169footer of the modification date of its input (or the current date if given
1170STDIN for input).
1171
1172Pod::Man assumes that your *roff formatters have a fixed-width font named
1173CW. If yours is called something else (like CR), use the C<fixed> option to
1174specify it. This generally only matters for troff output for printing.
1175Similarly, you can set the fonts used for bold, italic, and bold italic
1176fixed-width output.
1177
1178Besides the obvious pod conversions, Pod::Man also takes care of formatting
1179func(), func(n), and simple variable references like $foo or @bar so you
1180don't have to use code escapes for them; complex expressions like
1181C<$fred{'stuff'}> will still need to be escaped, though. It also translates
1182dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes, makes long dashes--like
1183this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired quotes," makes C++ and PI look
1184right, puts a little space between double underbars, makes ALLCAPS a teeny
1185bit smaller in troff(1), and escapes stuff that *roff treats as special so
1186that you don't have to.
1187
1188The recognized options to new() are as follows. All options take a single
1189argument.
1190
1191=over 4
1192
1193=item center
1194
1195Sets the centered page header to use instead of "User Contributed Perl
1196Documentation".
1197
1198=item date
1199
1200Sets the left-hand footer. By default, the modification date of the input
1201file will be used, or the current date if stat() can't find that file (the
1202case if the input is from STDIN), and the date will be formatted as
1203YYYY-MM-DD.
1204
1205=item fixed
1206
1207The fixed-width font to use for vertabim text and code. Defaults to CW.
1208Some systems may want CR instead. Only matters for troff(1) output.
1209
1210=item fixedbold
1211
1212Bold version of the fixed-width font. Defaults to CB. Only matters for
1213troff(1) output.
1214
1215=item fixeditalic
1216
1217Italic version of the fixed-width font (actually, something of a misnomer,
1218since most fixed-width fonts only have an oblique version, not an italic
1219version). Defaults to CI. Only matters for troff(1) output.
1220
1221=item fixedbolditalic
1222
1223Bold italic (probably actually oblique) version of the fixed-width font.
1224Pod::Man doesn't assume you have this, and defaults to CB. Some systems
1225(such as Solaris) have this font available as CX. Only matters for troff(1)
1226output.
1227
ab1f1d91 1228=item quotes
1229
1230Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
1231single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two
1232characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as
1233the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as
1234the left quote and the second two as the right quote.
1235
1236This may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote
1237marks are added around CE<lt>> text (but the font is still changed for troff
1238output).
1239
9741dab0 1240=item release
1241
1242Set the centered footer. By default, this is the version of Perl you run
1243Pod::Man under. Note that some system an macro sets assume that the
1244centered footer will be a modification date and will prepend something like
1245"Last modified: "; if this is the case, you may want to set C<release> to
1246the last modified date and C<date> to the version number.
1247
1248=item section
1249
1250Set the section for the C<.TH> macro. The standard section numbering
1251convention is to use 1 for user commands, 2 for system calls, 3 for
1252functions, 4 for devices, 5 for file formats, 6 for games, 7 for
1253miscellaneous information, and 8 for administrator commands. There is a lot
1254of variation here, however; some systems (like Solaris) use 4 for file
1255formats, 5 for miscellaneous information, and 7 for devices. Still others
1256use 1m instead of 8, or some mix of both. About the only section numbers
1257that are reliably consistent are 1, 2, and 3.
1258
1259By default, section 1 will be used unless the file ends in .pm in which case
1260section 3 will be selected.
1261
1262=back
1263
1264The standard Pod::Parser method parse_from_filehandle() takes up to two
1265arguments, the first being the file handle to read POD from and the second
1266being the file handle to write the formatted output to. The first defaults
1267to STDIN if not given, and the second defaults to STDOUT. The method
1268parse_from_file() is almost identical, except that its two arguments are the
1269input and output disk files instead. See L<Pod::Parser> for the specific
1270details.
1271
1272=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
1273
1274=over 4
1275
ab1f1d91 1276=item roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s"
9741dab0 1277
1278(F) You specified a *roff font (using C<fixed>, C<fixedbold>, etc.) that
1279wasn't either one or two characters. Pod::Man doesn't support *roff fonts
1280longer than two characters, although some *roff extensions do (the canonical
1281versions of nroff(1) and troff(1) don't either).
1282
1283=item Invalid link %s
1284
1285(W) The POD source contained a C<LE<lt>E<gt>> sequence that Pod::Man was
1286unable to parse. You should never see this error message; it probably
1287indicates a bug in Pod::Man.
1288
ab1f1d91 1289=item Invalid quote specification "%s"
1290
1291(F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
1292invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
1293
1294=item %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s".
1295
1296(W) The POD source contained a non-standard command paragraph (something of
1297the form C<=command args>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
1298
9741dab0 1299=item Unknown escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>
1300
1301(W) The POD source contained an C<EE<lt>E<gt>> escape that Pod::Man didn't
1302know about. C<EE<lt>%sE<gt>> was printed verbatim in the output.
1303
1304=item Unknown sequence %s
1305
1306(W) The POD source contained a non-standard interior sequence (something of
1307the form C<XE<lt>E<gt>>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
1308
844b31e3 1309=item %s: Unknown command paragraph "%s" on line %d.
1310
1311(W) The POD source contained a non-standard command paragraph (something of
1312the form C<=command args>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
1313
9741dab0 1314=item Unmatched =back
1315
1316(W) Pod::Man encountered a C<=back> command that didn't correspond to an
1317C<=over> command.
1318
1319=back
1320
1321=head1 BUGS
1322
1323The lint-like features and strict POD format checking done by B<pod2man> are
1324not yet implemented and should be, along with the corresponding C<lax>
1325option.
1326
1327The NAME section should be recognized specially and index entries emitted
1328for everything in that section. This would have to be deferred until the
1329next section, since extraneous things in NAME tends to confuse various man
1330page processors.
1331
1332The handling of hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes is somewhat fragile, and
1333one may get the wrong one under some circumstances. This should only matter
1334for troff(1) output.
1335
1336When and whether to use small caps is somewhat tricky, and Pod::Man doesn't
1337necessarily get it right.
1338
1339Pod::Man doesn't handle font names longer than two characters. Neither do
1340most troff(1) implementations, but GNU troff does as an extension. It would
1341be nice to support as an option for those who want to use it.
1342
1343The preamble added to each output file is rather verbose, and most of it is
1344only necessary in the presence of EE<lt>E<gt> escapes for non-ASCII
1345characters. It would ideally be nice if all of those definitions were only
1346output if needed, perhaps on the fly as the characters are used.
1347
1348Some of the automagic applied to file names assumes Unix directory
1349separators.
1350
1351Pod::Man is excessively slow.
1352
9741dab0 1353=head1 SEE ALSO
1354
9e107c59 1355L<Pod::Parser|Pod::Parser>, perlpod(1), pod2man(1), nroff(1), troff(1),
9741dab0 1356man(1), man(7)
1357
1358Ossanna, Joseph F., and Brian W. Kernighan. "Troff User's Manual,"
1359Computing Science Technical Report No. 54, AT&T Bell Laboratories. This is
1360the best documentation of standard nroff(1) and troff(1). At the time of
1361this writing, it's available at http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html.
1362
1363The man page documenting the man macro set may be man(5) instead of man(7)
9e107c59 1364on your system. Also, please see pod2man(1) for extensive documentation on
9741dab0 1365writing manual pages if you've not done it before and aren't familiar with
1366the conventions.
1367
1368=head1 AUTHOR
1369
1370Russ Allbery E<lt>rra@stanford.eduE<gt>, based I<very> heavily on the
1371original B<pod2man> by Tom Christiansen E<lt>tchrist@mox.perl.comE<gt>.
1372
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