pod2text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
pod2text [-aclost] [-i indent] [-q quotes] [-w width] [input [output]]
pod2text -h
pod2text is a front-end for Pod::Text and its subclasses. It uses them
to generate formatted ASCII text from POD source. It can optionally
use either termcap sequences or ANSI color escape sequences to format
the text.
input is the file to read for POD source (the POD can be embedded in
code). If input isn't given, it defaults to STDIN. output, if given,
is the file to which to write the formatted output. If output isn't
given, the formatted output is written to STDOUT.
-a, --alt
Use an alternate output format that, among other things, uses a
different heading style and marks "=item" entries with a colon in
the left margin.
-c, --color
Format the output with ANSI color escape sequences. Using this
option requires that Term::ANSIColor be installed on your system.
-i indent, --indent=indent
Set the number of spaces to indent regular text, and the default
indentation for "=over" blocks. Defaults to 4 spaces if this
option isn't given.
-h, --help
Print out usage information and exit.
-l, --loose
Print a blank line after a "=head1" heading. Normally, no blank
line is printed after "=head1", although one is still printed after
"=head2", because this is the expected formatting for manual pages;
if you're formatting arbitrary text documents, using this option is
recommended.
-o, --overstrike
Format the output with overstruck printing. Bold text is rendered
as character, backspace, character. Italics and file names are
rendered as underscore, backspace, character. Many pagers, such as
less, know how to convert this to bold or underlined text.
-q quotes, --quotes=quotes
Sets the quote marks used to surround C<> text to quotes. If
quotes is a single character, it is used as both the left and right
quote; if quotes is two characters, the first character is used as
the left quote and the second as the right quoted; and if quotes is
four characters, the first two are used as the left quote and the
second two as the right quote.
quotes may also be set to the special value "none", in which case
no quote marks are added around C<> text.
-s, --sentence
Assume each sentence ends with two spaces and try to preserve that
spacing. Without this option, all consecutive whitespace in nonverbatim
paragraphs is compressed into a single space.
-t, --termcap
Try to determine the width of the screen and the bold and underline
sequences for the terminal from termcap, and use that information
in formatting the output. Output will be wrapped at two columns
less than the width of your terminal device. Using this option
requires that your system have a termcap file somewhere where
Term::Cap can find it and requires that your system support
termios. With this option, the output of pod2text will contain
terminal control sequences for your current terminal type.
-w, --width=width, -width
The column at which to wrap text on the right-hand side. Defaults
to 76, unless -t is given, in which case it's two columns less than
the width of your terminal device.
If pod2text fails with errors, see Pod::Text and Pod::Parser for information
about what those errors might mean. Internally, it can also
produce the following diagnostics:
-c (--color) requires Term::ANSIColor be installed
(F) -c or --color were given, but Term::ANSIColor could not be
loaded.
Unknown option: %s
(F) An unknown command line option was given.
In addition, other Getopt::Long error messages may result from invalid
command-line options.
COLUMNS
If -t is given, pod2text will take the current width of your screen
from this environment variable, if available. It overrides terminal
width information in TERMCAP.
TERMCAP
If -t is given, pod2text will use the contents of this environment
variable if available to determine the correct formatting sequences
for your current terminal device.
Pod::Text, Pod::Text::Color, Pod::Text::Termcap, Pod::Parser
Russ Allbery <[email protected]>.
3rd Berkeley Distribution 2004-12-24 POD2TEXT(1)
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