1 # Pod::Text -- Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text.
2 # $Id: Text.pm,v 2.11 2001/07/10 11:08:10 eagle Exp $
4 # Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
6 # This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
7 # under the same terms as Perl itself.
9 # This module replaces the old Pod::Text that came with versions of Perl prior
10 # to 5.6.0, and attempts to match its output except for some specific
11 # circumstances where other decisions seemed to produce better output. It
12 # uses Pod::Parser and is designed to be very easy to subclass.
14 # Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
15 # maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
16 # me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
17 # standard Perl mailing lists.
19 ##############################################################################
20 # Modules and declarations
21 ##############################################################################
27 use Carp qw(carp croak);
32 use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT %ESCAPES $VERSION);
34 # We inherit from Pod::Select instead of Pod::Parser so that we can be used by
36 @ISA = qw(Pod::Select Exporter);
38 # We have to export pod2text for backward compatibility.
39 @EXPORT = qw(pod2text);
41 # Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in Perl
42 # core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings. This
43 # number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators, however.
47 ##############################################################################
48 # Table of supported E<> escapes
49 ##############################################################################
51 # This table is taken near verbatim from Pod::PlainText in Pod::Parser, which
52 # got it near verbatim from the original Pod::Text. It is therefore credited
53 # to Tom Christiansen, and I'm glad I didn't have to write it. :) "iexcl" to
54 # "divide" added by Tim Jenness.
56 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
57 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
58 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
59 'quot' => '"', # double quote
60 'sol' => '/', # solidus (forward slash)
61 'verbar' => '|', # vertical bar
63 "Aacute" => "\xC1", # capital A, acute accent
64 "aacute" => "\xE1", # small a, acute accent
65 "Acirc" => "\xC2", # capital A, circumflex accent
66 "acirc" => "\xE2", # small a, circumflex accent
67 "AElig" => "\xC6", # capital AE diphthong (ligature)
68 "aelig" => "\xE6", # small ae diphthong (ligature)
69 "Agrave" => "\xC0", # capital A, grave accent
70 "agrave" => "\xE0", # small a, grave accent
71 "Aring" => "\xC5", # capital A, ring
72 "aring" => "\xE5", # small a, ring
73 "Atilde" => "\xC3", # capital A, tilde
74 "atilde" => "\xE3", # small a, tilde
75 "Auml" => "\xC4", # capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
76 "auml" => "\xE4", # small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
77 "Ccedil" => "\xC7", # capital C, cedilla
78 "ccedil" => "\xE7", # small c, cedilla
79 "Eacute" => "\xC9", # capital E, acute accent
80 "eacute" => "\xE9", # small e, acute accent
81 "Ecirc" => "\xCA", # capital E, circumflex accent
82 "ecirc" => "\xEA", # small e, circumflex accent
83 "Egrave" => "\xC8", # capital E, grave accent
84 "egrave" => "\xE8", # small e, grave accent
85 "ETH" => "\xD0", # capital Eth, Icelandic
86 "eth" => "\xF0", # small eth, Icelandic
87 "Euml" => "\xCB", # capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
88 "euml" => "\xEB", # small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
89 "Iacute" => "\xCD", # capital I, acute accent
90 "iacute" => "\xED", # small i, acute accent
91 "Icirc" => "\xCE", # capital I, circumflex accent
92 "icirc" => "\xEE", # small i, circumflex accent
93 "Igrave" => "\xCC", # capital I, grave accent
94 "igrave" => "\xEC", # small i, grave accent
95 "Iuml" => "\xCF", # capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
96 "iuml" => "\xEF", # small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
97 "Ntilde" => "\xD1", # capital N, tilde
98 "ntilde" => "\xF1", # small n, tilde
99 "Oacute" => "\xD3", # capital O, acute accent
100 "oacute" => "\xF3", # small o, acute accent
101 "Ocirc" => "\xD4", # capital O, circumflex accent
102 "ocirc" => "\xF4", # small o, circumflex accent
103 "Ograve" => "\xD2", # capital O, grave accent
104 "ograve" => "\xF2", # small o, grave accent
105 "Oslash" => "\xD8", # capital O, slash
106 "oslash" => "\xF8", # small o, slash
107 "Otilde" => "\xD5", # capital O, tilde
108 "otilde" => "\xF5", # small o, tilde
109 "Ouml" => "\xD6", # capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
110 "ouml" => "\xF6", # small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
111 "szlig" => "\xDF", # small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
112 "THORN" => "\xDE", # capital THORN, Icelandic
113 "thorn" => "\xFE", # small thorn, Icelandic
114 "Uacute" => "\xDA", # capital U, acute accent
115 "uacute" => "\xFA", # small u, acute accent
116 "Ucirc" => "\xDB", # capital U, circumflex accent
117 "ucirc" => "\xFB", # small u, circumflex accent
118 "Ugrave" => "\xD9", # capital U, grave accent
119 "ugrave" => "\xF9", # small u, grave accent
120 "Uuml" => "\xDC", # capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
121 "uuml" => "\xFC", # small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
122 "Yacute" => "\xDD", # capital Y, acute accent
123 "yacute" => "\xFD", # small y, acute accent
124 "yuml" => "\xFF", # small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
126 "laquo" => "\xAB", # left pointing double angle quotation mark
127 "lchevron" => "\xAB", # synonym (backwards compatibility)
128 "raquo" => "\xBB", # right pointing double angle quotation mark
129 "rchevron" => "\xBB", # synonym (backwards compatibility)
131 "iexcl" => "\xA1", # inverted exclamation mark
132 "cent" => "\xA2", # cent sign
133 "pound" => "\xA3", # (UK) pound sign
134 "curren" => "\xA4", # currency sign
135 "yen" => "\xA5", # yen sign
136 "brvbar" => "\xA6", # broken vertical bar
137 "sect" => "\xA7", # section sign
138 "uml" => "\xA8", # diaresis
139 "copy" => "\xA9", # Copyright symbol
140 "ordf" => "\xAA", # feminine ordinal indicator
141 "not" => "\xAC", # not sign
142 "shy" => "\xAD", # soft hyphen
143 "reg" => "\xAE", # registered trademark
144 "macr" => "\xAF", # macron, overline
145 "deg" => "\xB0", # degree sign
146 "plusmn" => "\xB1", # plus-minus sign
147 "sup2" => "\xB2", # superscript 2
148 "sup3" => "\xB3", # superscript 3
149 "acute" => "\xB4", # acute accent
150 "micro" => "\xB5", # micro sign
151 "para" => "\xB6", # pilcrow sign = paragraph sign
152 "middot" => "\xB7", # middle dot = Georgian comma
153 "cedil" => "\xB8", # cedilla
154 "sup1" => "\xB9", # superscript 1
155 "ordm" => "\xBA", # masculine ordinal indicator
156 "frac14" => "\xBC", # vulgar fraction one quarter
157 "frac12" => "\xBD", # vulgar fraction one half
158 "frac34" => "\xBE", # vulgar fraction three quarters
159 "iquest" => "\xBF", # inverted question mark
160 "times" => "\xD7", # multiplication sign
161 "divide" => "\xF7", # division sign
165 ##############################################################################
167 ##############################################################################
169 # Initialize the object. Must be sure to call our parent initializer.
173 $$self{alt} = 0 unless defined $$self{alt};
174 $$self{indent} = 4 unless defined $$self{indent};
175 $$self{loose} = 0 unless defined $$self{loose};
176 $$self{sentence} = 0 unless defined $$self{sentence};
177 $$self{width} = 76 unless defined $$self{width};
179 # Figure out what quotes we'll be using for C<> text.
180 $$self{quotes} ||= '"';
181 if ($$self{quotes} eq 'none') {
182 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
183 } elsif (length ($$self{quotes}) == 1) {
184 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{quotes};
185 } elsif ($$self{quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
186 || $$self{quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
190 croak qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{quotes}");
193 $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
194 $$self{MARGIN} = $$self{indent}; # Current left margin in spaces.
196 $self->SUPER::initialize;
200 ##############################################################################
202 ##############################################################################
204 # Called for each command paragraph. Gets the command, the associated
205 # paragraph, the line number, and a Pod::Paragraph object. Just dispatches
206 # the command to a method named the same as the command. =cut is handled
207 # internally by Pod::Parser.
211 return if $command eq 'pod';
212 return if ($$self{EXCLUDE} && $command ne 'end');
213 $self->item ("\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
214 if ($self->can ('cmd_' . $command)) {
215 $command = 'cmd_' . $command;
216 $self->$command (@_);
218 my ($text, $line, $paragraph) = @_;
220 ($file, $line) = $paragraph->file_line;
222 $text = " $text" if ($text =~ /^\S/);
223 warn qq($file:$line: Unknown command paragraph "=$command$text"\n);
228 # Called for a verbatim paragraph. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and a
229 # Pod::Paragraph object. Just output it verbatim, but with tabs converted to
233 return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
234 $self->item if defined $$self{ITEM};
237 s/^(\s*\S+)/(' ' x $$self{MARGIN}) . $1/gme;
241 # Called for a regular text block. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and a
242 # Pod::Paragraph object. Perform interpolation and output the results.
245 return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
246 $self->output ($_[0]), return if $$self{VERBATIM};
250 # Perform a little magic to collapse multiple L<> references. This is
251 # here mostly for backwards-compatibility. We'll just rewrite the whole
252 # thing into actual text at this part, bypassing the whole internal
253 # sequence parsing thing.
256 L< # A link of the form L</something>.
259 [:\w]+ # The item has to be a simple word...
260 (\(\))? # ...or simple function.
264 ,?\s+(and\s+)? # Allow lots of them, conjuncted.
277 my @items = split /(?:,?\s+(?:and\s+)?)/;
280 for ($i = 0; $i < @items; $i++) {
281 $string .= $items[$i];
282 $string .= ", " if @items > 2 && $i != $#items;
283 $string .= " and " if ($i == $#items - 1);
285 $string .= " entries elsewhere in this document";
289 # Now actually interpolate and output the paragraph.
290 $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, $line);
292 if (defined $$self{ITEM}) {
293 $self->item ($_ . "\n");
295 $self->output ($self->reformat ($_ . "\n"));
299 # Called for an interior sequence. Gets the command, argument, and a
300 # Pod::InteriorSequence object and is expected to return the resulting text.
301 # Calls code, bold, italic, file, and link to handle those types of sequences,
302 # and handles S<>, E<>, X<>, and Z<> directly.
303 sub interior_sequence {
307 return '' if ($command eq 'X' || $command eq 'Z');
309 # Expand escapes into the actual character now, carping if invalid.
310 if ($command eq 'E') {
314 return $ESCAPES{$_} if defined $ESCAPES{$_};
315 carp "Unknown escape: E<$_>";
320 # For all the other sequences, empty content produces no output.
323 # For S<>, compress all internal whitespace and then map spaces to \01.
324 # When we output the text, we'll map this back.
325 if ($command eq 'S') {
331 # Anything else needs to get dispatched to another method.
332 if ($command eq 'B') { return $self->seq_b ($_) }
333 elsif ($command eq 'C') { return $self->seq_c ($_) }
334 elsif ($command eq 'F') { return $self->seq_f ($_) }
335 elsif ($command eq 'I') { return $self->seq_i ($_) }
336 elsif ($command eq 'L') { return $self->seq_l ($_) }
337 else { carp "Unknown sequence $command<$_>" }
340 # Called for each paragraph that's actually part of the POD. We take
341 # advantage of this opportunity to untabify the input.
342 sub preprocess_paragraph {
345 1 while s/^(.*?)(\t+)/$1 . ' ' x (length ($2) * 8 - length ($1) % 8)/me;
350 ##############################################################################
352 ##############################################################################
354 # All command paragraphs take the paragraph and the line number.
356 # First level heading.
361 $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
363 $self->output ("\n==== $_ ====\n\n");
365 $_ .= "\n" if $$self{loose};
366 $self->output ($_ . "\n");
370 # Second level heading.
375 $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
377 $self->output ("\n== $_ ==\n\n");
379 $self->output (' ' x ($$self{indent} / 2) . $_ . "\n\n");
383 # Third level heading.
388 $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
390 $self->output ("\n= $_ =\n\n");
392 $self->output (' ' x ($$self{indent} * 2 / 3 + 0.5) . $_ . "\n\n");
396 # Third level heading.
401 $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
403 $self->output ("\n- $_ -\n\n");
405 $self->output (' ' x ($$self{indent} * 3 / 4 + 0.5) . $_ . "\n\n");
413 unless (/^[-+]?\d+\s+$/) { $_ = $$self{indent} }
414 push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{MARGIN});
415 $$self{MARGIN} += ($_ + 0);
421 $$self{MARGIN} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
422 unless (defined $$self{MARGIN}) {
423 carp "Unmatched =back";
424 $$self{MARGIN} = $$self{indent};
428 # An individual list item.
431 if (defined $$self{ITEM}) { $self->item }
434 $$self{ITEM} = $self->interpolate ($_);
437 # Begin a block for a particular translator. Setting VERBATIM triggers
438 # special handling in textblock().
442 my ($kind) = /^(\S+)/ or return;
443 if ($kind eq 'text') {
444 $$self{VERBATIM} = 1;
450 # End a block for a particular translator. We assume that all =begin/=end
451 # pairs are properly closed.
455 $$self{VERBATIM} = 0;
458 # One paragraph for a particular translator. Ignore it unless it's intended
459 # for text, in which case we treat it as a verbatim text block.
464 return unless s/^text\b[ \t]*\n?//;
465 $self->verbatim ($_, $line);
469 ##############################################################################
471 ##############################################################################
473 # The simple formatting ones. These are here mostly so that subclasses can
474 # override them and do more complicated things.
475 sub seq_b { return $_[0]{alt} ? "``$_[1]''" : $_[1] }
476 sub seq_f { return $_[0]{alt} ? "\"$_[1]\"" : $_[1] }
477 sub seq_i { return '*' . $_[1] . '*' }
479 # Apply a whole bunch of messy heuristics to not quote things that don't
480 # benefit from being quoted. These originally come from Barrie Slaymaker and
481 # largely duplicate code in Pod::Man.
486 # A regex that matches the portion of a variable reference that's the
487 # array or hash index, separated out just because we want to use it in
488 # several places in the following regex.
489 my $index = '(?: \[.*\] | \{.*\} )?';
491 # Check for things that we don't want to quote, and if we find any of
492 # them, return the string with just a font change and no quoting.
496 ( [\'\`\"] ) .* \1 # already quoted
497 | \` .* \' # `quoted'
498 | \$+ [\#^]? \S $index # special ($^Foo, $")
499 | [\$\@%&*]+ \#? [:\'\w]+ $index # plain var or func
500 | [\$\@%&*]* [:\'\w]+ (?: -> )? \(\s*[^\s,]\s*\) # 0/1-arg func call
501 | [+-]? [\d.]+ (?: [eE] [+-]? \d+ )? # a number
502 | 0x [a-fA-F\d]+ # a hex constant
507 # If we didn't return, go ahead and quote the text.
508 return $$self{alt} ? "``$_''" : "$$self{LQUOTE}$_$$self{RQUOTE}";
511 # The complicated one. Handle links. Since this is plain text, we can't
512 # actually make any real links, so this is all to figure out what text we
518 # Smash whitespace in case we were split across multiple lines.
521 # If we were given any explicit text, just output it.
522 if (/^([^|]+)\|/) { return $1 }
524 # Okay, leading and trailing whitespace isn't important; get rid of it.
528 # If the argument looks like a URL, return it verbatim. This only handles
529 # URLs that use the server syntax.
530 if (m%^[a-z]+://\S+$%) { return $_ }
532 # Default to using the whole content of the link entry as a section name.
533 # Note that L<manpage/> forces a manpage interpretation, as does something
534 # looking like L<manpage(section)>. The latter is an enhancement over the
535 # original Pod::Text.
536 my ($manpage, $section) = ('', $_);
537 if (/^"\s*(.*?)\s*"$/) {
538 $section = '"' . $1 . '"';
539 } elsif (m/^[-:.\w]+(?:\(\S+\))?$/) {
540 ($manpage, $section) = ($_, '');
542 ($manpage, $section) = split (/\s*\/\s*/, $_, 2);
545 # Now build the actual output text.
547 if (!length $section) {
548 $text = "the $manpage manpage" if length $manpage;
549 } elsif ($section =~ /^[:\w]+(?:\(\))?/) {
550 $text .= 'the ' . $section . ' entry';
551 $text .= (length $manpage) ? " in the $manpage manpage"
552 : " elsewhere in this document";
554 $section =~ s/^\"\s*//;
555 $section =~ s/\s*\"$//;
556 $text .= 'the section on "' . $section . '"';
557 $text .= " in the $manpage manpage" if length $manpage;
563 ##############################################################################
565 ##############################################################################
567 # This method is called whenever an =item command is complete (in other words,
568 # we've seen its associated paragraph or know for certain that it doesn't have
569 # one). It gets the paragraph associated with the item as an argument. If
570 # that argument is empty, just output the item tag; if it contains a newline,
571 # output the item tag followed by the newline. Otherwise, see if there's
572 # enough room for us to output the item tag in the margin of the text or if we
573 # have to put it on a separate line.
577 my $tag = $$self{ITEM};
578 unless (defined $tag) {
579 carp "item called without tag";
583 my $indent = $$self{INDENTS}[-1];
584 unless (defined $indent) { $indent = $$self{indent} }
585 my $space = ' ' x $indent;
586 $space =~ s/^ /:/ if $$self{alt};
587 if (!$_ || /^\s+$/ || ($$self{MARGIN} - $indent < length ($tag) + 1)) {
588 my $margin = $$self{MARGIN};
589 $$self{MARGIN} = $indent;
590 my $output = $self->reformat ($tag);
591 $output =~ s/\n*$/\n/;
592 $self->output ($output);
593 $$self{MARGIN} = $margin;
594 $self->output ($self->reformat ($_)) if /\S/;
596 $_ = $self->reformat ($_);
597 s/^ /:/ if ($$self{alt} && $indent > 0);
598 my $tagspace = ' ' x length $tag;
599 s/^($space)$tagspace/$1$tag/ or warn "Bizarre space in item";
605 ##############################################################################
607 ##############################################################################
609 # Wrap a line, indenting by the current left margin. We can't use Text::Wrap
610 # because it plays games with tabs. We can't use formline, even though we'd
611 # really like to, because it screws up non-printing characters. So we have to
612 # do the wrapping ourselves.
617 my $spaces = ' ' x $$self{MARGIN};
618 my $width = $$self{width} - $$self{MARGIN};
619 while (length > $width) {
620 if (s/^([^\n]{0,$width})\s+// || s/^([^\n]{$width})//) {
621 $output .= $spaces . $1 . "\n";
626 $output .= $spaces . $_;
627 $output =~ s/\s+$/\n\n/;
631 # Reformat a paragraph of text for the current margin. Takes the text to
632 # reformat and returns the formatted text.
637 # If we're trying to preserve two spaces after sentences, do some munging
638 # to support that. Otherwise, smash all repeated whitespace.
639 if ($$self{sentence}) {
650 # Output text to the output device.
651 sub output { $_[1] =~ tr/\01/ /; print { $_[0]->output_handle } $_[1] }
654 ##############################################################################
655 # Backwards compatibility
656 ##############################################################################
658 # The old Pod::Text module did everything in a pod2text() function. This
659 # tries to provide the same interface for legacy applications.
663 # This is really ugly; I hate doing option parsing in the middle of a
664 # module. But the old Pod::Text module supported passing flags to its
665 # entry function, so handle -a and -<number>.
666 while ($_[0] =~ /^-/) {
668 if ($flag eq '-a') { push (@args, alt => 1) }
669 elsif ($flag =~ /^-(\d+)$/) { push (@args, width => $1) }
676 # Now that we know what arguments we're using, create the parser.
677 my $parser = Pod::Text->new (@args);
679 # If two arguments were given, the second argument is going to be a file
680 # handle. That means we want to call parse_from_filehandle(), which means
681 # we need to turn the first argument into a file handle. Magic open will
682 # handle the <&STDIN case automagically.
686 unless (open (IN, $fhs[0])) {
687 croak ("Can't open $fhs[0] for reading: $!\n");
691 return $parser->parse_from_filehandle (@fhs);
693 return $parser->parse_from_file (@_);
698 ##############################################################################
699 # Module return value and documentation
700 ##############################################################################
707 Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
712 my $parser = Pod::Text->new (sentence => 0, width => 78);
714 # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
715 $parser->parse_from_filehandle;
717 # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
718 $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');
722 Pod::Text is a module that can convert documentation in the POD format (the
723 preferred language for documenting Perl) into formatted ASCII. It uses no
724 special formatting controls or codes whatsoever, and its output is therefore
725 suitable for nearly any device.
727 As a derived class from Pod::Parser, Pod::Text supports the same methods and
728 interfaces. See L<Pod::Parser> for all the details; briefly, one creates a
729 new parser with C<Pod::Text-E<gt>new()> and then calls either
730 parse_from_filehandle() or parse_from_file().
732 new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs, that control the
733 behavior of the parser. The currently recognized options are:
739 If set to a true value, selects an alternate output format that, among other
740 things, uses a different heading style and marks C<=item> entries with a
741 colon in the left margin. Defaults to false.
745 The number of spaces to indent regular text, and the default indentation for
746 C<=over> blocks. Defaults to 4.
750 If set to a true value, a blank line is printed after a C<=head1> heading.
751 If set to false (the default), no blank line is printed after C<=head1>,
752 although one is still printed after C<=head2>. This is the default because
753 it's the expected formatting for manual pages; if you're formatting
754 arbitrary text documents, setting this to true may result in more pleasing
759 Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
760 single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two
761 characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as
762 the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as
763 the left quote and the second two as the right quote.
765 This may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote
766 marks are added around CE<lt>> text.
770 If set to a true value, Pod::Text will assume that each sentence ends in two
771 spaces, and will try to preserve that spacing. If set to false, all
772 consecutive whitespace in non-verbatim paragraphs is compressed into a
773 single space. Defaults to true.
777 The column at which to wrap text on the right-hand side. Defaults to 76.
781 The standard Pod::Parser method parse_from_filehandle() takes up to two
782 arguments, the first being the file handle to read POD from and the second
783 being the file handle to write the formatted output to. The first defaults
784 to STDIN if not given, and the second defaults to STDOUT. The method
785 parse_from_file() is almost identical, except that its two arguments are the
786 input and output disk files instead. See L<Pod::Parser> for the specific
793 =item Bizarre space in item
795 (W) Something has gone wrong in internal C<=item> processing. This message
796 indicates a bug in Pod::Text; you should never see it.
798 =item Can't open %s for reading: %s
800 (F) Pod::Text was invoked via the compatibility mode pod2text() interface
801 and the input file it was given could not be opened.
803 =item Invalid quote specification "%s"
805 (F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
806 invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
808 =item %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s".
810 (W) The POD source contained a non-standard command paragraph (something of
811 the form C<=command args>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
813 =item Unknown escape: %s
815 (W) The POD source contained an C<EE<lt>E<gt>> escape that Pod::Text didn't
818 =item Unknown sequence: %s
820 (W) The POD source contained a non-standard internal sequence (something of
821 the form C<XE<lt>E<gt>>) that Pod::Text didn't know about.
823 =item Unmatched =back
825 (W) Pod::Text encountered a C<=back> command that didn't correspond to an
832 Embedded Ctrl-As (octal 001) in the input will be mapped to spaces on
833 output, due to an internal implementation detail.
837 This is a replacement for an earlier Pod::Text module written by Tom
838 Christiansen. It has a revamped interface, since it now uses Pod::Parser,
839 but an interface roughly compatible with the old Pod::Text::pod2text()
840 function is still available. Please change to the new calling convention,
843 The original Pod::Text contained code to do formatting via termcap
844 sequences, although it wasn't turned on by default and it was problematic to
845 get it to work at all. This rewrite doesn't even try to do that, but a
846 subclass of it does. Look for L<Pod::Text::Termcap|Pod::Text::Termcap>.
850 L<Pod::Parser|Pod::Parser>, L<Pod::Text::Termcap|Pod::Text::Termcap>,
855 Russ Allbery E<lt>rra@stanford.eduE<gt>, based I<very> heavily on the
856 original Pod::Text by Tom Christiansen E<lt>tchrist@mox.perl.comE<gt> and
857 its conversion to Pod::Parser by Brad Appleton
858 E<lt>bradapp@enteract.comE<gt>.
860 =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
862 Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
864 This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
865 under the same terms as Perl itself.