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131 | .IX Title "Pod::Text 3" |
132 | .TH Pod::Text 3 "2009-01-18" "perl v5.8.7" "User Contributed Perl Documentation" |
133 | .SH "NAME" |
134 | Pod::Text \- Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text |
135 | .SH "SYNOPSIS" |
136 | .IX Header "SYNOPSIS" |
137 | .Vb 2 |
138 | \& use Pod::Text; |
139 | \& my $parser = Pod::Text\->new (sentence => 0, width => 78); |
140 | .Ve |
141 | .PP |
142 | .Vb 2 |
143 | \& # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT. |
144 | \& $parser\->parse_from_filehandle; |
145 | .Ve |
146 | .PP |
147 | .Vb 2 |
148 | \& # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt. |
149 | \& $parser\->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt'); |
150 | .Ve |
151 | .SH "DESCRIPTION" |
152 | .IX Header "DESCRIPTION" |
153 | Pod::Text is a module that can convert documentation in the \s-1POD\s0 format (the |
154 | preferred language for documenting Perl) into formatted \s-1ASCII\s0. It uses no |
155 | special formatting controls or codes whatsoever, and its output is therefore |
156 | suitable for nearly any device. |
157 | .PP |
158 | As a derived class from Pod::Simple, Pod::Text supports the same methods and |
159 | interfaces. See Pod::Simple for all the details; briefly, one creates a |
160 | new parser with \f(CW\*(C`Pod::Text\->new()\*(C'\fR and then normally calls \fIparse_file()\fR. |
161 | .PP |
162 | \&\fInew()\fR can take options, in the form of key/value pairs, that control the |
163 | behavior of the parser. The currently recognized options are: |
164 | .IP "alt" 4 |
165 | .IX Item "alt" |
166 | If set to a true value, selects an alternate output format that, among other |
167 | things, uses a different heading style and marks \f(CW\*(C`=item\*(C'\fR entries with a |
168 | colon in the left margin. Defaults to false. |
169 | .IP "code" 4 |
170 | .IX Item "code" |
171 | If set to a true value, the non-POD parts of the input file will be included |
172 | in the output. Useful for viewing code documented with \s-1POD\s0 blocks with the |
173 | \&\s-1POD\s0 rendered and the code left intact. |
174 | .IP "indent" 4 |
175 | .IX Item "indent" |
176 | The number of spaces to indent regular text, and the default indentation for |
177 | \&\f(CW\*(C`=over\*(C'\fR blocks. Defaults to 4. |
178 | .IP "loose" 4 |
179 | .IX Item "loose" |
180 | If set to a true value, a blank line is printed after a \f(CW\*(C`=head1\*(C'\fR heading. |
181 | If set to false (the default), no blank line is printed after \f(CW\*(C`=head1\*(C'\fR, |
182 | although one is still printed after \f(CW\*(C`=head2\*(C'\fR. This is the default because |
183 | it's the expected formatting for manual pages; if you're formatting |
184 | arbitrary text documents, setting this to true may result in more pleasing |
185 | output. |
186 | .IP "margin" 4 |
187 | .IX Item "margin" |
188 | The width of the left margin in spaces. Defaults to 0. This is the margin |
189 | for all text, including headings, not the amount by which regular text is |
190 | indented; for the latter, see the \fIindent\fR option. To set the right |
191 | margin, see the \fIwidth\fR option. |
192 | .IP "quotes" 4 |
193 | .IX Item "quotes" |
194 | Sets the quote marks used to surround C<> text. If the value is a |
195 | single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two |
196 | characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as |
197 | the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as |
198 | the left quote and the second two as the right quote. |
199 | .Sp |
200 | This may also be set to the special value \f(CW\*(C`none\*(C'\fR, in which case no quote |
201 | marks are added around C<> text. |
202 | .IP "sentence" 4 |
203 | .IX Item "sentence" |
204 | If set to a true value, Pod::Text will assume that each sentence ends in two |
205 | spaces, and will try to preserve that spacing. If set to false, all |
206 | consecutive whitespace in non-verbatim paragraphs is compressed into a |
207 | single space. Defaults to true. |
208 | .IP "stderr" 4 |
209 | .IX Item "stderr" |
210 | Send error messages about invalid \s-1POD\s0 to standard error instead of |
211 | appending a \s-1POD\s0 \s-1ERRORS\s0 section to the generated output. |
212 | .IP "utf8" 4 |
213 | .IX Item "utf8" |
214 | By default, Pod::Text uses the same output encoding as the input encoding |
215 | of the \s-1POD\s0 source (provided that Perl was built with PerlIO; otherwise, it |
216 | doesn't encode its output). If this option is given, the output encoding |
217 | is forced to \s-1UTF\-8\s0. |
218 | .Sp |
219 | Be aware that, when using this option, the input encoding of your \s-1POD\s0 |
220 | source must be properly declared unless it is US-ASCII or Latin\-1. \s-1POD\s0 |
221 | input without an \f(CW\*(C`=encoding\*(C'\fR command will be assumed to be in Latin\-1, |
222 | and if it's actually in \s-1UTF\-8\s0, the output will be double\-encoded. See |
223 | \&\fIperlpod\fR\|(1) for more information on the \f(CW\*(C`=encoding\*(C'\fR command. |
224 | .IP "width" 4 |
225 | .IX Item "width" |
226 | The column at which to wrap text on the right-hand side. Defaults to 76. |
227 | .PP |
228 | The standard Pod::Simple method \fIparse_file()\fR takes one argument, the file or |
229 | file handle to read from, and writes output to standard output unless that |
230 | has been changed with the \fIoutput_fh()\fR method. See Pod::Simple for the |
231 | specific details and for other alternative interfaces. |
232 | .SH "DIAGNOSTICS" |
233 | .IX Header "DIAGNOSTICS" |
234 | .IP "Bizarre space in item" 4 |
235 | .IX Item "Bizarre space in item" |
236 | .PD 0 |
237 | .IP "Item called without tag" 4 |
238 | .IX Item "Item called without tag" |
239 | .PD |
240 | (W) Something has gone wrong in internal \f(CW\*(C`=item\*(C'\fR processing. These |
241 | messages indicate a bug in Pod::Text; you should never see them. |
242 | .ie n .IP "Can't open %s\fR for reading: \f(CW%s" 4 |
243 | .el .IP "Can't open \f(CW%s\fR for reading: \f(CW%s\fR" 4 |
244 | .IX Item "Can't open %s for reading: %s" |
245 | (F) Pod::Text was invoked via the compatibility mode \fIpod2text()\fR interface |
246 | and the input file it was given could not be opened. |
247 | .ie n .IP "Invalid quote specification ""%s""" 4 |
248 | .el .IP "Invalid quote specification ``%s''" 4 |
249 | .IX Item "Invalid quote specification %s" |
250 | (F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was |
251 | invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long. |
252 | .SH "BUGS" |
253 | .IX Header "BUGS" |
254 | Encoding handling assumes that PerlIO is available and does not work |
255 | properly if it isn't. The \f(CW\*(C`utf8\*(C'\fR option is therefore not supported |
256 | unless Perl is built with PerlIO support. |
257 | .SH "CAVEATS" |
258 | .IX Header "CAVEATS" |
259 | If Pod::Text is given the \f(CW\*(C`utf8\*(C'\fR option, the encoding of its output file |
260 | handle will be forced to \s-1UTF\-8\s0 if possible, overriding any existing |
261 | encoding. This will be done even if the file handle is not created by |
262 | Pod::Text and was passed in from outside. This maintains consistency |
263 | regardless of \s-1PERL_UNICODE\s0 and other settings. |
264 | .PP |
265 | If the \f(CW\*(C`utf8\*(C'\fR option is not given, the encoding of its output file handle |
266 | will be forced to the detected encoding of the input \s-1POD\s0, which preserves |
267 | whatever the input text is. This ensures backward compatibility with |
268 | earlier, pre-Unicode versions of this module, without large numbers of |
269 | Perl warnings. |
270 | .PP |
271 | This is not ideal, but it seems to be the best compromise. If it doesn't |
272 | work for you, please let me know the details of how it broke. |
273 | .SH "NOTES" |
274 | .IX Header "NOTES" |
275 | This is a replacement for an earlier Pod::Text module written by Tom |
276 | Christiansen. It has a revamped interface, since it now uses Pod::Simple, |
277 | but an interface roughly compatible with the old \fIPod::Text::pod2text()\fR |
278 | function is still available. Please change to the new calling convention, |
279 | though. |
280 | .PP |
281 | The original Pod::Text contained code to do formatting via termcap |
282 | sequences, although it wasn't turned on by default and it was problematic to |
283 | get it to work at all. This rewrite doesn't even try to do that, but a |
284 | subclass of it does. Look for Pod::Text::Termcap. |
285 | .SH "SEE ALSO" |
286 | .IX Header "SEE ALSO" |
287 | Pod::Simple, Pod::Text::Termcap, \fIperlpod\fR\|(1), \fIpod2text\fR\|(1) |
288 | .PP |
289 | The current version of this module is always available from its web site at |
290 | <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the |
291 | Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0. |
292 | .SH "AUTHOR" |
293 | .IX Header "AUTHOR" |
294 | Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, based \fIvery\fR heavily on the original |
295 | Pod::Text by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> and its conversion to |
296 | Pod::Parser by Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>. Sean Burke's initial |
297 | conversion of Pod::Man to use Pod::Simple provided much-needed guidance on |
298 | how to use Pod::Simple. |
299 | .SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE" |
300 | .IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE" |
301 | Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2008 Russ Allbery |
302 | <rra@stanford.edu>. |
303 | .PP |
304 | This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it |
305 | under the same terms as Perl itself. |