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NAME    [Toc]    [Back]

       pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format

SYNOPSIS    [Toc]    [Back]

         pod2latex *.pm

         pod2latex -out mytex.tex *.pod

         pod2latex -full -sections 'DESCRIPTION|NAME' SomeDir

         pod2latex -prefile h.tex -postfile t.tex my.pod

DESCRIPTION    [Toc]    [Back]

       "pod2latex" is a program to convert POD format documentation
 (perlpod) into latex. It can process multiple input
       documents at a time and either generate a latex file per
       input document or a single combined output file.

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS    [Toc]    [Back]

       This section describes the supported command line options.
       Minimum matching is supported.

       -out
           Name of the output file to be used. If there are multiple
 input pods it is assumed that the intention is
           to write all translated output into a single file.
           ".tex" is appended if not present.  If the argument is
           not supplied, a single document will be created for
           each input file.

       -full
           Creates a complete "latex" file that can be processed
           immediately (unless "=for/=begin" directives are used
           that rely on extra packages).  Table of contents and
           index generation commands are included in the wrapper
           "latex" code.

       -sections
           Specify pod sections to include (or remove if negated)
           in the translation.  See "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in
           Pod::Select for the format to use for section-spec.
           This option may be given multiple times on the command
           line.This is identical to the similar option in the
           "podselect()" command.

       -modify
           This option causes the output "latex" to be slightly
           modified from the input pod such that when a "=head1
           NAME" is encountered a section is created containing
           the actual pod name (rather than NAME) and all subsequent
 "=head1" directives are treated as  subsections.
           This has the advantage that the description of a module
 will be in its own section which is helpful for
           including module descriptions in documentation.  Also
           forces "latex" label and index entries to be prefixed
           by the name of the module.

       -h1level
           Specifies the "latex" section that is equivalent to a
           "H1" pod directive. This is an integer between 0 and 5
           with 0 equivalent to a "latex" chapter, 1 equivalent
           to a "latex" section etc. The default is 1 ("H1"
           equivalent to a latex section).

       -help
           Print a brief help message and exit.

       -man
           Print the manual page and exit.

       -verbose
           Print information messages as each document is processed.


       -preamble
           A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple
           values are supported and appended in order separated
           by "0.  See -prefile for reading the preamble from a
           file.

       -postamble
           A user supplied postamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple
           values are supported and appended in order separated
           by "0.  See -postfile for reading the postamble from
           a file.

       -prefile
           A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code to be read
           from the named file. Multiple values are supported and
           appended in order. See -preamble.

       -postfile
           A user-supplied postamble for the LaTeX code to be
           read from the named file. Multiple values are supported
 and appended in order. See -postamble.

BUGS    [Toc]    [Back]

       Known bugs are:

       o   Cross references between documents are not resolved
           when multiple pod documents are converted into a single
 output "latex" file.

       o   Functions and variables are not automatically recognized
 and they will therefore not be marked up in any
           special way unless instructed by an explicit pod command.

SEE ALSO    [Toc]    [Back]

       Pod::LaTeX

AUTHOR    [Toc]    [Back]

       Tim Jenness <[email protected]>

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

       Copyright (C) 2000, 2003, 2004 Tim Jenness. All Rights
       Reserved.


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