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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

     "pod2latex" is a program to convert POD format documentation
     (perlpod) into latex. It can process multiple input docu-
     ments 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 multi-
         ple 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 sup-
         plied, 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

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         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 pro-
         cessed.

     -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:

     +   Cross references between documents are not resolved when
         multiple pod documents are converted into a single out-
         put "latex" file.

     +   Functions and variables are not automatically recognized
         and they will therefore not be marked up in any special

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         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.

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