# Pod::Text -- Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text.
-# $Id: Text.pm,v 2.7 2000/11/19 04:47:50 eagle Exp $
#
-# Copyright 1999, 2000 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
+# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008
+# Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
#
-# This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
+# This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
# under the same terms as Perl itself.
#
-# This module is intended to be a replacement for Pod::Text, and attempts to
-# match its output except for some specific circumstances where other
-# decisions seemed to produce better output. It uses Pod::Parser and is
-# designed to be very easy to subclass.
+# This module converts POD to formatted text. It replaces the old Pod::Text
+# module that came with versions of Perl prior to 5.6.0 and attempts to match
+# its output except for some specific circumstances where other decisions
+# seemed to produce better output. It uses Pod::Parser and is designed to be
+# very easy to subclass.
+#
+# Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
+# maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
+# me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
+# standard Perl mailing lists.
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
# Modules and declarations
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
package Pod::Text;
require 5.004;
-use Carp qw(carp croak);
-use Exporter ();
-use Pod::Select ();
-
use strict;
use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT %ESCAPES $VERSION);
-# We inherit from Pod::Select instead of Pod::Parser so that we can be used
-# by Pod::Usage.
-@ISA = qw(Pod::Select Exporter);
+use Carp qw(carp croak);
+use Exporter ();
+use Pod::Simple ();
+
+@ISA = qw(Pod::Simple Exporter);
# We have to export pod2text for backward compatibility.
@EXPORT = qw(pod2text);
-# Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in
-# Perl core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings.
-# This number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators,
-# however.
-$VERSION = 2.07;
-
-
-############################################################################
-# Table of supported E<> escapes
-############################################################################
-
-# This table is taken near verbatim from Pod::PlainText in Pod::Parser,
-# which got it near verbatim from the original Pod::Text. It is therefore
-# credited to Tom Christiansen, and I'm glad I didn't have to write it. :)
-# "iexcl" to "divide" added by Tim Jenness.
-%ESCAPES = (
- 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
- 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
- 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
- 'quot' => '"', # double quote
- 'sol' => '/', # solidus (forward slash)
- 'verbar' => '|', # vertical bar
-
- "Aacute" => "\xC1", # capital A, acute accent
- "aacute" => "\xE1", # small a, acute accent
- "Acirc" => "\xC2", # capital A, circumflex accent
- "acirc" => "\xE2", # small a, circumflex accent
- "AElig" => "\xC6", # capital AE diphthong (ligature)
- "aelig" => "\xE6", # small ae diphthong (ligature)
- "Agrave" => "\xC0", # capital A, grave accent
- "agrave" => "\xE0", # small a, grave accent
- "Aring" => "\xC5", # capital A, ring
- "aring" => "\xE5", # small a, ring
- "Atilde" => "\xC3", # capital A, tilde
- "atilde" => "\xE3", # small a, tilde
- "Auml" => "\xC4", # capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "auml" => "\xE4", # small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "Ccedil" => "\xC7", # capital C, cedilla
- "ccedil" => "\xE7", # small c, cedilla
- "Eacute" => "\xC9", # capital E, acute accent
- "eacute" => "\xE9", # small e, acute accent
- "Ecirc" => "\xCA", # capital E, circumflex accent
- "ecirc" => "\xEA", # small e, circumflex accent
- "Egrave" => "\xC8", # capital E, grave accent
- "egrave" => "\xE8", # small e, grave accent
- "ETH" => "\xD0", # capital Eth, Icelandic
- "eth" => "\xF0", # small eth, Icelandic
- "Euml" => "\xCB", # capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "euml" => "\xEB", # small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "Iacute" => "\xCC", # capital I, acute accent
- "iacute" => "\xEC", # small i, acute accent
- "Icirc" => "\xCE", # capital I, circumflex accent
- "icirc" => "\xEE", # small i, circumflex accent
- "Igrave" => "\xCD", # capital I, grave accent
- "igrave" => "\xED", # small i, grave accent
- "Iuml" => "\xCF", # capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "iuml" => "\xEF", # small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "Ntilde" => "\xD1", # capital N, tilde
- "ntilde" => "\xF1", # small n, tilde
- "Oacute" => "\xD3", # capital O, acute accent
- "oacute" => "\xF3", # small o, acute accent
- "Ocirc" => "\xD4", # capital O, circumflex accent
- "ocirc" => "\xF4", # small o, circumflex accent
- "Ograve" => "\xD2", # capital O, grave accent
- "ograve" => "\xF2", # small o, grave accent
- "Oslash" => "\xD8", # capital O, slash
- "oslash" => "\xF8", # small o, slash
- "Otilde" => "\xD5", # capital O, tilde
- "otilde" => "\xF5", # small o, tilde
- "Ouml" => "\xD6", # capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "ouml" => "\xF6", # small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "szlig" => "\xDF", # small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
- "THORN" => "\xDE", # capital THORN, Icelandic
- "thorn" => "\xFE", # small thorn, Icelandic
- "Uacute" => "\xDA", # capital U, acute accent
- "uacute" => "\xFA", # small u, acute accent
- "Ucirc" => "\xDB", # capital U, circumflex accent
- "ucirc" => "\xFB", # small u, circumflex accent
- "Ugrave" => "\xD9", # capital U, grave accent
- "ugrave" => "\xF9", # small u, grave accent
- "Uuml" => "\xDC", # capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "uuml" => "\xFC", # small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
- "Yacute" => "\xDD", # capital Y, acute accent
- "yacute" => "\xFD", # small y, acute accent
- "yuml" => "\xFF", # small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
-
- "laquo" => "\xAB", # left pointing double angle quotation mark
- "lchevron" => "\xAB", # synonym (backwards compatibility)
- "raquo" => "\xBB", # right pointing double angle quotation mark
- "rchevron" => "\xBB", # synonym (backwards compatibility)
-
- "iexcl" => "\xA1", # inverted exclamation mark
- "cent" => "\xA2", # cent sign
- "pound" => "\xA3", # (UK) pound sign
- "curren" => "\xA4", # currency sign
- "yen" => "\xA5", # yen sign
- "brvbar" => "\xA6", # broken vertical bar
- "sect" => "\xA7", # section sign
- "uml" => "\xA8", # diaresis
- "copy" => "\xA9", # Copyright symbol
- "ordf" => "\xAA", # feminine ordinal indicator
- "not" => "\xAC", # not sign
- "shy" => "\xAD", # soft hyphen
- "reg" => "\xAE", # registered trademark
- "macr" => "\xAF", # macron, overline
- "deg" => "\xB0", # degree sign
- "plusmn" => "\xB1", # plus-minus sign
- "sup2" => "\xB2", # superscript 2
- "sup3" => "\xB3", # superscript 3
- "acute" => "\xB4", # acute accent
- "micro" => "\xB5", # micro sign
- "para" => "\xB6", # pilcrow sign = paragraph sign
- "middot" => "\xB7", # middle dot = Georgian comma
- "cedil" => "\xB8", # cedilla
- "sup1" => "\xB9", # superscript 1
- "ordm" => "\xBA", # masculine ordinal indicator
- "frac14" => "\xBC", # vulgar fraction one quarter
- "frac12" => "\xBD", # vulgar fraction one half
- "frac34" => "\xBE", # vulgar fraction three quarters
- "iquest" => "\xBF", # inverted question mark
- "times" => "\xD7", # multiplication sign
- "divide" => "\xF7", # division sign
-);
-
-
-############################################################################
+$VERSION = '3.12';
+
+##############################################################################
# Initialization
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
+
+# This function handles code blocks. It's registered as a callback to
+# Pod::Simple and therefore doesn't work as a regular method call, but all it
+# does is call output_code with the line.
+sub handle_code {
+ my ($line, $number, $parser) = @_;
+ $parser->output_code ($line . "\n");
+}
-# Initialize the object. Must be sure to call our parent initializer.
-sub initialize {
- my $self = shift;
+# Initialize the object and set various Pod::Simple options that we need.
+# Here, we also process any additional options passed to the constructor or
+# set up defaults if none were given. Note that all internal object keys are
+# in all-caps, reserving all lower-case object keys for Pod::Simple and user
+# arguments.
+sub new {
+ my $class = shift;
+ my $self = $class->SUPER::new;
+
+ # Tell Pod::Simple to handle S<> by automatically inserting .
+ $self->nbsp_for_S (1);
+
+ # Tell Pod::Simple to keep whitespace whenever possible.
+ if ($self->can ('preserve_whitespace')) {
+ $self->preserve_whitespace (1);
+ } else {
+ $self->fullstop_space_harden (1);
+ }
+
+ # The =for and =begin targets that we accept.
+ $self->accept_targets (qw/text TEXT/);
+
+ # Ensure that contiguous blocks of code are merged together. Otherwise,
+ # some of the guesswork heuristics don't work right.
+ $self->merge_text (1);
+
+ # Pod::Simple doesn't do anything useful with our arguments, but we want
+ # to put them in our object as hash keys and values. This could cause
+ # problems if we ever clash with Pod::Simple's own internal class
+ # variables.
+ my %opts = @_;
+ my @opts = map { ("opt_$_", $opts{$_}) } keys %opts;
+ %$self = (%$self, @opts);
+
+ # Send errors to stderr if requested.
+ if ($$self{opt_stderr}) {
+ $self->no_errata_section (1);
+ $self->complain_stderr (1);
+ delete $$self{opt_stderr};
+ }
- $$self{alt} = 0 unless defined $$self{alt};
- $$self{indent} = 4 unless defined $$self{indent};
- $$self{loose} = 0 unless defined $$self{loose};
- $$self{sentence} = 0 unless defined $$self{sentence};
- $$self{width} = 76 unless defined $$self{width};
+ # Initialize various things from our parameters.
+ $$self{opt_alt} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_alt};
+ $$self{opt_indent} = 4 unless defined $$self{opt_indent};
+ $$self{opt_margin} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_margin};
+ $$self{opt_loose} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_loose};
+ $$self{opt_sentence} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_sentence};
+ $$self{opt_width} = 76 unless defined $$self{opt_width};
# Figure out what quotes we'll be using for C<> text.
- $$self{quotes} ||= '"';
- if ($$self{quotes} eq 'none') {
+ $$self{opt_quotes} ||= '"';
+ if ($$self{opt_quotes} eq 'none') {
$$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
- } elsif (length ($$self{quotes}) == 1) {
- $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{quotes};
- } elsif ($$self{quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
- || $$self{quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
+ } elsif (length ($$self{opt_quotes}) == 1) {
+ $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{opt_quotes};
+ } elsif ($$self{opt_quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
+ || $$self{opt_quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
$$self{LQUOTE} = $1;
$$self{RQUOTE} = $2;
} else {
- croak qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{quotes}");
+ croak qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{opt_quotes}");
}
- $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
- $$self{MARGIN} = $$self{indent}; # Current left margin in spaces.
+ # If requested, do something with the non-POD text.
+ $self->code_handler (\&handle_code) if $$self{opt_code};
- $self->SUPER::initialize;
+ # Return the created object.
+ return $self;
}
+##############################################################################
+# Core parsing
+##############################################################################
+
+# This is the glue that connects the code below with Pod::Simple itself. The
+# goal is to convert the event stream coming from the POD parser into method
+# calls to handlers once the complete content of a tag has been seen. Each
+# paragraph or POD command will have textual content associated with it, and
+# as soon as all of a paragraph or POD command has been seen, that content
+# will be passed in to the corresponding method for handling that type of
+# object. The exceptions are handlers for lists, which have opening tag
+# handlers and closing tag handlers that will be called right away.
+#
+# The internal hash key PENDING is used to store the contents of a tag until
+# all of it has been seen. It holds a stack of open tags, each one
+# represented by a tuple of the attributes hash for the tag and the contents
+# of the tag.
+
+# Add a block of text to the contents of the current node, formatting it
+# according to the current formatting instructions as we do.
+sub _handle_text {
+ my ($self, $text) = @_;
+ my $tag = $$self{PENDING}[-1];
+ $$tag[1] .= $text;
+}
-############################################################################
-# Core overrides
-############################################################################
-
-# Called for each command paragraph. Gets the command, the associated
-# paragraph, the line number, and a Pod::Paragraph object. Just dispatches
-# the command to a method named the same as the command. =cut is handled
-# internally by Pod::Parser.
-sub command {
- my $self = shift;
- my $command = shift;
- return if $command eq 'pod';
- return if ($$self{EXCLUDE} && $command ne 'end');
- $self->item ("\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
- if ($self->can ('cmd_' . $command)) {
- $command = 'cmd_' . $command;
- $self->$command (@_);
- } else {
- my ($text, $line, $paragraph) = @_;
- my $file;
- ($file, $line) = $paragraph->file_line;
- $text =~ s/\n+\z//;
- $text = " $text" if ($text =~ /^\S/);
- warn qq($file:$line: Unknown command paragraph "=$command$text"\n);
- return;
- }
+# Given an element name, get the corresponding method name.
+sub method_for_element {
+ my ($self, $element) = @_;
+ $element =~ tr/-/_/;
+ $element =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
+ $element =~ tr/_a-z0-9//cd;
+ return $element;
}
-# Called for a verbatim paragraph. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and
-# a Pod::Paragraph object. Just output it verbatim, but with tabs converted
-# to spaces.
-sub verbatim {
- my $self = shift;
- return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
- $self->item if defined $$self{ITEM};
- local $_ = shift;
- return if /^\s*$/;
- s/^(\s*\S+)/(' ' x $$self{MARGIN}) . $1/gme;
- $self->output ($_);
+# Handle the start of a new element. If cmd_element is defined, assume that
+# we need to collect the entire tree for this element before passing it to the
+# element method, and create a new tree into which we'll collect blocks of
+# text and nested elements. Otherwise, if start_element is defined, call it.
+sub _handle_element_start {
+ my ($self, $element, $attrs) = @_;
+ my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
+
+ # If we have a command handler, we need to accumulate the contents of the
+ # tag before calling it.
+ if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
+ push (@{ $$self{PENDING} }, [ $attrs, '' ]);
+ } elsif ($self->can ("start_$method")) {
+ my $method = 'start_' . $method;
+ $self->$method ($attrs, '');
+ }
}
-# Called for a regular text block. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and
-# a Pod::Paragraph object. Perform interpolation and output the results.
-sub textblock {
- my $self = shift;
- return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
- $self->output ($_[0]), return if $$self{VERBATIM};
- local $_ = shift;
- my $line = shift;
-
- # Perform a little magic to collapse multiple L<> references. This is
- # here mostly for backwards-compatibility. We'll just rewrite the whole
- # thing into actual text at this part, bypassing the whole internal
- # sequence parsing thing.
- s{
- (
- L< # A link of the form L</something>.
- /
- (
- [:\w]+ # The item has to be a simple word...
- (\(\))? # ...or simple function.
- )
- >
- (
- ,?\s+(and\s+)? # Allow lots of them, conjuncted.
- L<
- /
- (
- [:\w]+
- (\(\))?
- )
- >
- )+
- )
- } {
- local $_ = $1;
- s%L</([^>]+)>%$1%g;
- my @items = split /(?:,?\s+(?:and\s+)?)/;
- my $string = "the ";
- my $i;
- for ($i = 0; $i < @items; $i++) {
- $string .= $items[$i];
- $string .= ", " if @items > 2 && $i != $#items;
- $string .= " and " if ($i == $#items - 1);
+# Handle the end of an element. If we had a cmd_ method for this element,
+# this is where we pass along the text that we've accumulated. Otherwise, if
+# we have an end_ method for the element, call that.
+sub _handle_element_end {
+ my ($self, $element) = @_;
+ my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
+
+ # If we have a command handler, pull off the pending text and pass it to
+ # the handler along with the saved attribute hash.
+ if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
+ my $tag = pop @{ $$self{PENDING} };
+ my $method = 'cmd_' . $method;
+ my $text = $self->$method (@$tag);
+ if (defined $text) {
+ if (@{ $$self{PENDING} } > 1) {
+ $$self{PENDING}[-1][1] .= $text;
+ } else {
+ $self->output ($text);
+ }
}
- $string .= " entries elsewhere in this document";
- $string;
- }gex;
-
- # Now actually interpolate and output the paragraph.
- $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, $line);
- s/\s+$/\n/;
- if (defined $$self{ITEM}) {
- $self->item ($_ . "\n");
- } else {
- $self->output ($self->reformat ($_ . "\n"));
+ } elsif ($self->can ("end_$method")) {
+ my $method = 'end_' . $method;
+ $self->$method ();
}
}
-# Called for an interior sequence. Gets the command, argument, and a
-# Pod::InteriorSequence object and is expected to return the resulting text.
-# Calls code, bold, italic, file, and link to handle those types of
-# sequences, and handles S<>, E<>, X<>, and Z<> directly.
-sub interior_sequence {
+##############################################################################
+# Output formatting
+##############################################################################
+
+# Wrap a line, indenting by the current left margin. We can't use Text::Wrap
+# because it plays games with tabs. We can't use formline, even though we'd
+# really like to, because it screws up non-printing characters. So we have to
+# do the wrapping ourselves.
+sub wrap {
my $self = shift;
- my $command = shift;
local $_ = shift;
- return '' if ($command eq 'X' || $command eq 'Z');
-
- # Expand escapes into the actual character now, carping if invalid.
- if ($command eq 'E') {
- if (/^\d+$/) {
- return chr;
+ my $output = '';
+ my $spaces = ' ' x $$self{MARGIN};
+ my $width = $$self{opt_width} - $$self{MARGIN};
+ while (length > $width) {
+ if (s/^([^\n]{0,$width})\s+// || s/^([^\n]{$width})//) {
+ $output .= $spaces . $1 . "\n";
} else {
- return $ESCAPES{$_} if defined $ESCAPES{$_};
- carp "Unknown escape: E<$_>";
- return "E<$_>";
+ last;
}
}
-
- # For all the other sequences, empty content produces no output.
- return if $_ eq '';
-
- # For S<>, compress all internal whitespace and then map spaces to \01.
- # When we output the text, we'll map this back.
- if ($command eq 'S') {
- s/\s{2,}/ /g;
- tr/ /\01/;
- return $_;
- }
-
- # Anything else needs to get dispatched to another method.
- if ($command eq 'B') { return $self->seq_b ($_) }
- elsif ($command eq 'C') { return $self->seq_c ($_) }
- elsif ($command eq 'F') { return $self->seq_f ($_) }
- elsif ($command eq 'I') { return $self->seq_i ($_) }
- elsif ($command eq 'L') { return $self->seq_l ($_) }
- else { carp "Unknown sequence $command<$_>" }
+ $output .= $spaces . $_;
+ $output =~ s/\s+$/\n\n/;
+ return $output;
}
-# Called for each paragraph that's actually part of the POD. We take
-# advantage of this opportunity to untabify the input.
-sub preprocess_paragraph {
+# Reformat a paragraph of text for the current margin. Takes the text to
+# reformat and returns the formatted text.
+sub reformat {
my $self = shift;
local $_ = shift;
- 1 while s/^(.*?)(\t+)/$1 . ' ' x (length ($2) * 8 - length ($1) % 8)/me;
- $_;
+
+ # If we're trying to preserve two spaces after sentences, do some munging
+ # to support that. Otherwise, smash all repeated whitespace.
+ if ($$self{opt_sentence}) {
+ s/ +$//mg;
+ s/\.\n/. \n/g;
+ s/\n/ /g;
+ s/ +/ /g;
+ } else {
+ s/\s+/ /g;
+ }
+ return $self->wrap ($_);
}
+# Output text to the output device. Replace non-breaking spaces with spaces
+# and soft hyphens with nothing, and then try to fix the output encoding if
+# necessary to match the input encoding unless UTF-8 output is forced. This
+# preserves the traditional pass-through behavior of Pod::Text.
+sub output {
+ my ($self, $text) = @_;
+ $text =~ tr/\240\255/ /d;
+ unless ($$self{opt_utf8} || $$self{CHECKED_ENCODING}) {
+ my $encoding = $$self{encoding} || '';
+ if ($encoding) {
+ eval { binmode ($$self{output_fh}, ":encoding($encoding)") };
+ }
+ $$self{CHECKED_ENCODING} = 1;
+ }
+ print { $$self{output_fh} } $text;
+}
-############################################################################
-# Command paragraphs
-############################################################################
+# Output a block of code (something that isn't part of the POD text). Called
+# by preprocess_paragraph only if we were given the code option. Exists here
+# only so that it can be overridden by subclasses.
+sub output_code { $_[0]->output ($_[1]) }
-# All command paragraphs take the paragraph and the line number.
+##############################################################################
+# Document initialization
+##############################################################################
-# First level heading.
-sub cmd_head1 {
+# Set up various things that have to be initialized on a per-document basis.
+sub start_document {
my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- s/\s+$//;
- $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
- if ($$self{alt}) {
- $self->output ("\n==== $_ ====\n\n");
- } else {
- $_ .= "\n" if $$self{loose};
- $self->output ($_ . "\n");
+ my $margin = $$self{opt_indent} + $$self{opt_margin};
+
+ # Initialize a few per-document variables.
+ $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
+ $$self{MARGIN} = $margin; # Default left margin.
+ $$self{PENDING} = [[]]; # Pending output.
+
+ # We have to redo encoding handling for each document.
+ delete $$self{CHECKED_ENCODING};
+
+ # If we were given the utf8 option, set an output encoding on our file
+ # handle. Wrap in an eval in case we're using a version of Perl too old
+ # to understand this.
+ #
+ # This is evil because it changes the global state of a file handle that
+ # we may not own. However, we can't just blindly encode all output, since
+ # there may be a pre-applied output encoding (such as from PERL_UNICODE)
+ # and then we would double-encode. This seems to be the least bad
+ # approach.
+ if ($$self{opt_utf8}) {
+ eval { binmode ($$self{output_fh}, ':encoding(UTF-8)') };
}
+
+ return '';
}
-# Second level heading.
-sub cmd_head2 {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- s/\s+$//;
- $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
- if ($$self{alt}) {
- $self->output ("\n== $_ ==\n\n");
- } else {
- $self->output (' ' x ($$self{indent} / 2) . $_ . "\n\n");
+##############################################################################
+# Text blocks
+##############################################################################
+
+# This method is called whenever an =item command is complete (in other words,
+# we've seen its associated paragraph or know for certain that it doesn't have
+# one). It gets the paragraph associated with the item as an argument. If
+# that argument is empty, just output the item tag; if it contains a newline,
+# output the item tag followed by the newline. Otherwise, see if there's
+# enough room for us to output the item tag in the margin of the text or if we
+# have to put it on a separate line.
+sub item {
+ my ($self, $text) = @_;
+ my $tag = $$self{ITEM};
+ unless (defined $tag) {
+ carp "Item called without tag";
+ return;
}
-}
+ undef $$self{ITEM};
-# Third level heading.
-sub cmd_head3 {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- s/\s+$//;
- $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
- if ($$self{alt}) {
- $self->output ("\n= $_ =\n\n");
+ # Calculate the indentation and margin. $fits is set to true if the tag
+ # will fit into the margin of the paragraph given our indentation level.
+ my $indent = $$self{INDENTS}[-1];
+ $indent = $$self{opt_indent} unless defined $indent;
+ my $margin = ' ' x $$self{opt_margin};
+ my $fits = ($$self{MARGIN} - $indent >= length ($tag) + 1);
+
+ # If the tag doesn't fit, or if we have no associated text, print out the
+ # tag separately. Otherwise, put the tag in the margin of the paragraph.
+ if (!$text || $text =~ /^\s+$/ || !$fits) {
+ my $realindent = $$self{MARGIN};
+ $$self{MARGIN} = $indent;
+ my $output = $self->reformat ($tag);
+ $output =~ s/^$margin /$margin:/ if ($$self{opt_alt} && $indent > 0);
+ $output =~ s/\n*$/\n/;
+
+ # If the text is just whitespace, we have an empty item paragraph;
+ # this can result from =over/=item/=back without any intermixed
+ # paragraphs. Insert some whitespace to keep the =item from merging
+ # into the next paragraph.
+ $output .= "\n" if $text && $text =~ /^\s*$/;
+
+ $self->output ($output);
+ $$self{MARGIN} = $realindent;
+ $self->output ($self->reformat ($text)) if ($text && $text =~ /\S/);
} else {
- $self->output (' ' x ($$self{indent} * 2 / 3 + 0.5) . $_ . "\n\n");
+ my $space = ' ' x $indent;
+ $space =~ s/^$margin /$margin:/ if $$self{opt_alt};
+ $text = $self->reformat ($text);
+ $text =~ s/^$margin /$margin:/ if ($$self{opt_alt} && $indent > 0);
+ my $tagspace = ' ' x length $tag;
+ $text =~ s/^($space)$tagspace/$1$tag/ or warn "Bizarre space in item";
+ $self->output ($text);
}
}
-# Third level heading.
-sub cmd_head4 {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- s/\s+$//;
- $_ = $self->interpolate ($_, shift);
- if ($$self{alt}) {
- $self->output ("\n- $_ -\n\n");
+# Handle a basic block of text. The only tricky thing here is that if there
+# is a pending item tag, we need to format this as an item paragraph.
+sub cmd_para {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $text =~ s/\s+$/\n/;
+ if (defined $$self{ITEM}) {
+ $self->item ($text . "\n");
} else {
- $self->output (' ' x ($$self{indent} * 3 / 4 + 0.5) . $_ . "\n\n");
+ $self->output ($self->reformat ($text . "\n"));
}
+ return '';
}
-# Start a list.
-sub cmd_over {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- unless (/^[-+]?\d+\s+$/) { $_ = $$self{indent} }
- push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{MARGIN});
- $$self{MARGIN} += ($_ + 0);
+# Handle a verbatim paragraph. Just print it out, but indent it according to
+# our margin.
+sub cmd_verbatim {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $self->item if defined $$self{ITEM};
+ return if $text =~ /^\s*$/;
+ $text =~ s/^(\n*)(\s*\S+)/$1 . (' ' x $$self{MARGIN}) . $2/gme;
+ $text =~ s/\s*$/\n\n/;
+ $self->output ($text);
+ return '';
}
-# End a list.
-sub cmd_back {
- my $self = shift;
- $$self{MARGIN} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
- unless (defined $$self{MARGIN}) {
- carp "Unmatched =back";
- $$self{MARGIN} = $$self{indent};
- }
+# Handle literal text (produced by =for and similar constructs). Just output
+# it with the minimum of changes.
+sub cmd_data {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $text =~ s/^\n+//;
+ $text =~ s/\n{0,2}$/\n/;
+ $self->output ($text);
+ return '';
}
-# An individual list item.
-sub cmd_item {
- my $self = shift;
- if (defined $$self{ITEM}) { $self->item }
- local $_ = shift;
- s/\s+$//;
- $$self{ITEM} = $self->interpolate ($_);
-}
-
-# Begin a block for a particular translator. Setting VERBATIM triggers
-# special handling in textblock().
-sub cmd_begin {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- my ($kind) = /^(\S+)/ or return;
- if ($kind eq 'text') {
- $$self{VERBATIM} = 1;
+##############################################################################
+# Headings
+##############################################################################
+
+# The common code for handling all headers. Takes the header text, the
+# indentation, and the surrounding marker for the alt formatting method.
+sub heading {
+ my ($self, $text, $indent, $marker) = @_;
+ $self->item ("\n\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
+ $text =~ s/\s+$//;
+ if ($$self{opt_alt}) {
+ my $closemark = reverse (split (//, $marker));
+ my $margin = ' ' x $$self{opt_margin};
+ $self->output ("\n" . "$margin$marker $text $closemark" . "\n\n");
} else {
- $$self{EXCLUDE} = 1;
+ $text .= "\n" if $$self{opt_loose};
+ my $margin = ' ' x ($$self{opt_margin} + $indent);
+ $self->output ($margin . $text . "\n");
}
+ return '';
}
-# End a block for a particular translator. We assume that all =begin/=end
-# pairs are properly closed.
-sub cmd_end {
- my $self = shift;
- $$self{EXCLUDE} = 0;
- $$self{VERBATIM} = 0;
+# First level heading.
+sub cmd_head1 {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $self->heading ($text, 0, '====');
}
-# One paragraph for a particular translator. Ignore it unless it's intended
-# for text, in which case we treat it as a verbatim text block.
-sub cmd_for {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- my $line = shift;
- return unless s/^text\b[ \t]*\n?//;
- $self->verbatim ($_, $line);
+# Second level heading.
+sub cmd_head2 {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $self->heading ($text, $$self{opt_indent} / 2, '== ');
}
-
-############################################################################
-# Interior sequences
-############################################################################
-
-# The simple formatting ones. These are here mostly so that subclasses can
-# override them and do more complicated things.
-sub seq_b { return $_[0]{alt} ? "``$_[1]''" : $_[1] }
-sub seq_f { return $_[0]{alt} ? "\"$_[1]\"" : $_[1] }
-sub seq_i { return '*' . $_[1] . '*' }
-sub seq_c {
- return $_[0]{alt} ? "``$_[1]''" : "$_[0]{LQUOTE}$_[1]$_[0]{RQUOTE}"
+# Third level heading.
+sub cmd_head3 {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $self->heading ($text, $$self{opt_indent} * 2 / 3 + 0.5, '= ');
}
-# The complicated one. Handle links. Since this is plain text, we can't
-# actually make any real links, so this is all to figure out what text we
-# print out.
-sub seq_l {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
-
- # Smash whitespace in case we were split across multiple lines.
- s/\s+/ /g;
-
- # If we were given any explicit text, just output it.
- if (/^([^|]+)\|/) { return $1 }
-
- # Okay, leading and trailing whitespace isn't important; get rid of it.
- s/^\s+//;
- s/\s+$//;
-
- # Default to using the whole content of the link entry as a section
- # name. Note that L<manpage/> forces a manpage interpretation, as does
- # something looking like L<manpage(section)>. The latter is an
- # enhancement over the original Pod::Text.
- my ($manpage, $section) = ('', $_);
- if (/^"\s*(.*?)\s*"$/) {
- $section = '"' . $1 . '"';
- } elsif (m/^[-:.\w]+(?:\(\S+\))?$/) {
- ($manpage, $section) = ($_, '');
- } elsif (m%/%) {
- ($manpage, $section) = split (/\s*\/\s*/, $_, 2);
- }
-
- # Now build the actual output text.
- my $text = '';
- if (!length $section) {
- $text = "the $manpage manpage" if length $manpage;
- } elsif ($section =~ /^[:\w]+(?:\(\))?/) {
- $text .= 'the ' . $section . ' entry';
- $text .= (length $manpage) ? " in the $manpage manpage"
- : " elsewhere in this document";
- } else {
- $section =~ s/^\"\s*//;
- $section =~ s/\s*\"$//;
- $text .= 'the section on "' . $section . '"';
- $text .= " in the $manpage manpage" if length $manpage;
- }
- $text;
+# Fourth level heading.
+sub cmd_head4 {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $self->heading ($text, $$self{opt_indent} * 3 / 4 + 0.5, '- ');
}
-
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
# List handling
-############################################################################
-
-# This method is called whenever an =item command is complete (in other
-# words, we've seen its associated paragraph or know for certain that it
-# doesn't have one). It gets the paragraph associated with the item as an
-# argument. If that argument is empty, just output the item tag; if it
-# contains a newline, output the item tag followed by the newline.
-# Otherwise, see if there's enough room for us to output the item tag in the
-# margin of the text or if we have to put it on a separate line.
-sub item {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- my $tag = $$self{ITEM};
- unless (defined $tag) {
- carp "item called without tag";
- return;
+##############################################################################
+
+# Handle the beginning of an =over block. Takes the type of the block as the
+# first argument, and then the attr hash. This is called by the handlers for
+# the four different types of lists (bullet, number, text, and block).
+sub over_common_start {
+ my ($self, $attrs) = @_;
+ $self->item ("\n\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
+
+ # Find the indentation level.
+ my $indent = $$attrs{indent};
+ unless (defined ($indent) && $indent =~ /^\s*[-+]?\d{1,4}\s*$/) {
+ $indent = $$self{opt_indent};
}
- undef $$self{ITEM};
- my $indent = $$self{INDENTS}[-1];
- unless (defined $indent) { $indent = $$self{indent} }
- my $space = ' ' x $indent;
- $space =~ s/^ /:/ if $$self{alt};
- if (!$_ || /^\s+$/ || ($$self{MARGIN} - $indent < length ($tag) + 1)) {
- my $margin = $$self{MARGIN};
- $$self{MARGIN} = $indent;
- my $output = $self->reformat ($tag);
- $output =~ s/\n*$/\n/;
- $self->output ($output);
- $$self{MARGIN} = $margin;
- $self->output ($self->reformat ($_)) if /\S/;
- } else {
- $_ = $self->reformat ($_);
- s/^ /:/ if ($$self{alt} && $indent > 0);
- my $tagspace = ' ' x length $tag;
- s/^($space)$tagspace/$1$tag/ or warn "Bizarre space in item";
- $self->output ($_);
- }
-}
+ # Add this to our stack of indents and increase our current margin.
+ push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{MARGIN});
+ $$self{MARGIN} += ($indent + 0);
+ return '';
+}
-############################################################################
-# Output formatting
-############################################################################
-
-# Wrap a line, indenting by the current left margin. We can't use
-# Text::Wrap because it plays games with tabs. We can't use formline, even
-# though we'd really like to, because it screws up non-printing characters.
-# So we have to do the wrapping ourselves.
-sub wrap {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- my $output = '';
- my $spaces = ' ' x $$self{MARGIN};
- my $width = $$self{width} - $$self{MARGIN};
- while (length > $width) {
- if (s/^([^\n]{0,$width})\s+// || s/^([^\n]{$width})//) {
- $output .= $spaces . $1 . "\n";
- } else {
- last;
- }
- }
- $output .= $spaces . $_;
- $output =~ s/\s+$/\n\n/;
- $output;
+# End an =over block. Takes no options other than the class pointer. Output
+# any pending items and then pop one level of indentation.
+sub over_common_end {
+ my ($self) = @_;
+ $self->item ("\n\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
+ $$self{MARGIN} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
+ return '';
}
-# Reformat a paragraph of text for the current margin. Takes the text to
-# reformat and returns the formatted text.
-sub reformat {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
+# Dispatch the start and end calls as appropriate.
+sub start_over_bullet { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
+sub start_over_number { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
+sub start_over_text { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
+sub start_over_block { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
+sub end_over_bullet { $_[0]->over_common_end }
+sub end_over_number { $_[0]->over_common_end }
+sub end_over_text { $_[0]->over_common_end }
+sub end_over_block { $_[0]->over_common_end }
+
+# The common handler for all item commands. Takes the type of the item, the
+# attributes, and then the text of the item.
+sub item_common {
+ my ($self, $type, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ $self->item if defined $$self{ITEM};
- # If we're trying to preserve two spaces after sentences, do some
- # munging to support that. Otherwise, smash all repeated whitespace.
- if ($$self{sentence}) {
- s/ +$//mg;
- s/\.\n/. \n/g;
- s/\n/ /g;
- s/ +/ /g;
+ # Clean up the text. We want to end up with two variables, one ($text)
+ # which contains any body text after taking out the item portion, and
+ # another ($item) which contains the actual item text. Note the use of
+ # the internal Pod::Simple attribute here; that's a potential land mine.
+ $text =~ s/\s+$//;
+ my ($item, $index);
+ if ($type eq 'bullet') {
+ $item = '*';
+ } elsif ($type eq 'number') {
+ $item = $$attrs{'~orig_content'};
} else {
- s/\s+/ /g;
+ $item = $text;
+ $item =~ s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
+ $text = '';
+ }
+ $$self{ITEM} = $item;
+
+ # If body text for this item was included, go ahead and output that now.
+ if ($text) {
+ $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
+ $self->item ($text);
}
- $self->wrap ($_);
+ return '';
}
-# Output text to the output device.
-sub output { $_[1] =~ tr/\01/ /; print { $_[0]->output_handle } $_[1] }
+# Dispatch the item commands to the appropriate place.
+sub cmd_item_bullet { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('bullet', @_) }
+sub cmd_item_number { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('number', @_) }
+sub cmd_item_text { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('text', @_) }
+sub cmd_item_block { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('block', @_) }
+
+##############################################################################
+# Formatting codes
+##############################################################################
+
+# The simple ones.
+sub cmd_b { return $_[0]{alt} ? "``$_[2]''" : $_[2] }
+sub cmd_f { return $_[0]{alt} ? "\"$_[2]\"" : $_[2] }
+sub cmd_i { return '*' . $_[2] . '*' }
+sub cmd_x { return '' }
+
+# Apply a whole bunch of messy heuristics to not quote things that don't
+# benefit from being quoted. These originally come from Barrie Slaymaker and
+# largely duplicate code in Pod::Man.
+sub cmd_c {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+
+ # A regex that matches the portion of a variable reference that's the
+ # array or hash index, separated out just because we want to use it in
+ # several places in the following regex.
+ my $index = '(?: \[.*\] | \{.*\} )?';
+
+ # Check for things that we don't want to quote, and if we find any of
+ # them, return the string with just a font change and no quoting.
+ $text =~ m{
+ ^\s*
+ (?:
+ ( [\'\`\"] ) .* \1 # already quoted
+ | \` .* \' # `quoted'
+ | \$+ [\#^]? \S $index # special ($^Foo, $")
+ | [\$\@%&*]+ \#? [:\'\w]+ $index # plain var or func
+ | [\$\@%&*]* [:\'\w]+ (?: -> )? \(\s*[^\s,]\s*\) # 0/1-arg func call
+ | [+-]? ( \d[\d.]* | \.\d+ ) (?: [eE][+-]?\d+ )? # a number
+ | 0x [a-fA-F\d]+ # a hex constant
+ )
+ \s*\z
+ }xo && return $text;
+
+ # If we didn't return, go ahead and quote the text.
+ return $$self{opt_alt}
+ ? "``$text''"
+ : "$$self{LQUOTE}$text$$self{RQUOTE}";
+}
+# Links reduce to the text that we're given, wrapped in angle brackets if it's
+# a URL.
+sub cmd_l {
+ my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
+ return $$attrs{type} eq 'url' ? "<$text>" : $text;
+}
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
# Backwards compatibility
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
# The old Pod::Text module did everything in a pod2text() function. This
# tries to provide the same interface for legacy applications.
my $parser = Pod::Text->new (@args);
# If two arguments were given, the second argument is going to be a file
- # handle. That means we want to call parse_from_filehandle(), which
- # means we need to turn the first argument into a file handle. Magic
- # open will handle the <&STDIN case automagically.
+ # handle. That means we want to call parse_from_filehandle(), which means
+ # we need to turn the first argument into a file handle. Magic open will
+ # handle the <&STDIN case automagically.
if (defined $_[1]) {
my @fhs = @_;
local *IN;
return;
}
$fhs[0] = \*IN;
- return $parser->parse_from_filehandle (@fhs);
+ $parser->output_fh ($fhs[1]);
+ my $retval = $parser->parse_file ($fhs[0]);
+ my $fh = $parser->output_fh ();
+ close $fh;
+ return $retval;
} else {
- return $parser->parse_from_file (@_);
+ return $parser->parse_file (@_);
}
}
+# Reset the underlying Pod::Simple object between calls to parse_from_file so
+# that the same object can be reused to convert multiple pages.
+sub parse_from_file {
+ my $self = shift;
+ $self->reinit;
+
+ # Fake the old cutting option to Pod::Parser. This fiddings with internal
+ # Pod::Simple state and is quite ugly; we need a better approach.
+ if (ref ($_[0]) eq 'HASH') {
+ my $opts = shift @_;
+ if (defined ($$opts{-cutting}) && !$$opts{-cutting}) {
+ $$self{in_pod} = 1;
+ $$self{last_was_blank} = 1;
+ }
+ }
-############################################################################
+ # Do the work.
+ my $retval = $self->Pod::Simple::parse_from_file (@_);
+
+ # Flush output, since Pod::Simple doesn't do this. Ideally we should also
+ # close the file descriptor if we had to open one, but we can't easily
+ # figure this out.
+ my $fh = $self->output_fh ();
+ my $oldfh = select $fh;
+ my $oldflush = $|;
+ $| = 1;
+ print $fh '';
+ $| = $oldflush;
+ select $oldfh;
+ return $retval;
+}
+
+# Pod::Simple failed to provide this backward compatibility function, so
+# implement it ourselves. File handles are one of the inputs that
+# parse_from_file supports.
+sub parse_from_filehandle {
+ my $self = shift;
+ $self->parse_from_file (@_);
+}
+
+##############################################################################
# Module return value and documentation
-############################################################################
+##############################################################################
1;
__END__
Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
+=for stopwords
+alt stderr Allbery Sean Burke's Christiansen UTF-8 pre-Unicode utf8
+
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Pod::Text;
special formatting controls or codes whatsoever, and its output is therefore
suitable for nearly any device.
-As a derived class from Pod::Parser, Pod::Text supports the same methods and
-interfaces. See L<Pod::Parser> for all the details; briefly, one creates a
-new parser with C<Pod::Text-E<gt>new()> and then calls either
-parse_from_filehandle() or parse_from_file().
+As a derived class from Pod::Simple, Pod::Text supports the same methods and
+interfaces. See L<Pod::Simple> for all the details; briefly, one creates a
+new parser with C<< Pod::Text->new() >> and then normally calls parse_file().
new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs, that control the
behavior of the parser. The currently recognized options are:
things, uses a different heading style and marks C<=item> entries with a
colon in the left margin. Defaults to false.
+=item code
+
+If set to a true value, the non-POD parts of the input file will be included
+in the output. Useful for viewing code documented with POD blocks with the
+POD rendered and the code left intact.
+
=item indent
The number of spaces to indent regular text, and the default indentation for
arbitrary text documents, setting this to true may result in more pleasing
output.
+=item margin
+
+The width of the left margin in spaces. Defaults to 0. This is the margin
+for all text, including headings, not the amount by which regular text is
+indented; for the latter, see the I<indent> option. To set the right
+margin, see the I<width> option.
+
=item quotes
Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
consecutive whitespace in non-verbatim paragraphs is compressed into a
single space. Defaults to true.
+=item stderr
+
+Send error messages about invalid POD to standard error instead of
+appending a POD ERRORS section to the generated output.
+
+=item utf8
+
+By default, Pod::Text uses the same output encoding as the input encoding
+of the POD source (provided that Perl was built with PerlIO; otherwise, it
+doesn't encode its output). If this option is given, the output encoding
+is forced to UTF-8.
+
+Be aware that, when using this option, the input encoding of your POD
+source must be properly declared unless it is US-ASCII or Latin-1. POD
+input without an C<=encoding> command will be assumed to be in Latin-1,
+and if it's actually in UTF-8, the output will be double-encoded. See
+L<perlpod(1)> for more information on the C<=encoding> command.
+
=item width
The column at which to wrap text on the right-hand side. Defaults to 76.
=back
-The standard Pod::Parser method parse_from_filehandle() takes up to two
-arguments, the first being the file handle to read POD from and the second
-being the file handle to write the formatted output to. The first defaults
-to STDIN if not given, and the second defaults to STDOUT. The method
-parse_from_file() is almost identical, except that its two arguments are the
-input and output disk files instead. See L<Pod::Parser> for the specific
-details.
+The standard Pod::Simple method parse_file() takes one argument, the file or
+file handle to read from, and writes output to standard output unless that
+has been changed with the output_fh() method. See L<Pod::Simple> for the
+specific details and for other alternative interfaces.
=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
=item Bizarre space in item
-(W) Something has gone wrong in internal C<=item> processing. This message
-indicates a bug in Pod::Text; you should never see it.
+=item Item called without tag
+
+(W) Something has gone wrong in internal C<=item> processing. These
+messages indicate a bug in Pod::Text; you should never see them.
=item Can't open %s for reading: %s
(F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
-=item %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s".
-
-(W) The POD source contained a non-standard command paragraph (something of
-the form C<=command args>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
-
-=item Unknown escape: %s
-
-(W) The POD source contained an C<EE<lt>E<gt>> escape that Pod::Text didn't
-know about.
-
-=item Unknown sequence: %s
+=back
-(W) The POD source contained a non-standard internal sequence (something of
-the form C<XE<lt>E<gt>>) that Pod::Text didn't know about.
+=head1 BUGS
-=item Unmatched =back
+Encoding handling assumes that PerlIO is available and does not work
+properly if it isn't. The C<utf8> option is therefore not supported
+unless Perl is built with PerlIO support.
-(W) Pod::Text encountered a C<=back> command that didn't correspond to an
-C<=over> command.
+=head1 CAVEATS
-=back
+If Pod::Text is given the C<utf8> option, the encoding of its output file
+handle will be forced to UTF-8 if possible, overriding any existing
+encoding. This will be done even if the file handle is not created by
+Pod::Text and was passed in from outside. This maintains consistency
+regardless of PERL_UNICODE and other settings.
-=head1 RESTRICTIONS
+If the C<utf8> option is not given, the encoding of its output file handle
+will be forced to the detected encoding of the input POD, which preserves
+whatever the input text is. This ensures backward compatibility with
+earlier, pre-Unicode versions of this module, without large numbers of
+Perl warnings.
-Embedded Ctrl-As (octal 001) in the input will be mapped to spaces on
-output, due to an internal implementation detail.
+This is not ideal, but it seems to be the best compromise. If it doesn't
+work for you, please let me know the details of how it broke.
=head1 NOTES
This is a replacement for an earlier Pod::Text module written by Tom
-Christiansen. It has a revamped interface, since it now uses Pod::Parser,
+Christiansen. It has a revamped interface, since it now uses Pod::Simple,
but an interface roughly compatible with the old Pod::Text::pod2text()
function is still available. Please change to the new calling convention,
though.
The original Pod::Text contained code to do formatting via termcap
sequences, although it wasn't turned on by default and it was problematic to
get it to work at all. This rewrite doesn't even try to do that, but a
-subclass of it does. Look for L<Pod::Text::Termcap|Pod::Text::Termcap>.
+subclass of it does. Look for L<Pod::Text::Termcap>.
=head1 SEE ALSO
-L<Pod::Parser|Pod::Parser>, L<Pod::Text::Termcap|Pod::Text::Termcap>,
-pod2text(1)
+L<Pod::Simple>, L<Pod::Text::Termcap>, L<perlpod(1)>, L<pod2text(1)>
+
+The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
+L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
+Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
=head1 AUTHOR
-Russ Allbery E<lt>rra@stanford.eduE<gt>, based I<very> heavily on the
-original Pod::Text by Tom Christiansen E<lt>tchrist@mox.perl.comE<gt> and
-its conversion to Pod::Parser by Brad Appleton
-E<lt>bradapp@enteract.comE<gt>.
+Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, based I<very> heavily on the original
+Pod::Text by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> and its conversion to
+Pod::Parser by Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>. Sean Burke's initial
+conversion of Pod::Man to use Pod::Simple provided much-needed guidance on
+how to use Pod::Simple.
+
+=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
+
+Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 Russ Allbery
+<rra@stanford.edu>.
+
+This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
+under the same terms as Perl itself.
=cut