NAME
pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format
SYNOPSIS
pod2latex *.pm
pod2latex -out mytex.tex *.pod
pod2latex -full -sections DESCRIPTION|NAME SomeDir
pod2latex -prefile h.tex -postfile t.tex my.pod
DESCRIPTION
pod2latexis 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
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. .texis appended if not present. If the argument is not supplied, a single document will be created for each input file. |
-full |
Creates a complete latexfile that can be processed immediately (unless =for/=begindirectives are used that rely on extra packages). Table of contents and index generation commands are included in the wrapper latexcode. |
-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 latexto be slightly modified from the input pod such that when a =head1 NAMEis encountered a section is created containing the actual pod name (rather than NAME) and all subsequent =head1directives 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 latexlabel and index entries to be prefixed by the name of the module. |
-h1level |
Specifies the latexsection that is equivalent to a H1pod directive. This is an integer between 0 and 5 with 0 equivalent to a latexchapter, 1 equivalent to a latexsection etc. The default is 1 ( H1equivalent 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 \n. 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 \n. 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
Known bugs are:
o |
Cross references between documents are not resolved when multiple
pod documents are converted into a single output latexfile. |
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
Pod::LaTeX
AUTHOR
Tim Jenness <tjenness@cpan.org>
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.