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pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format
pod2latex *.pm
pod2latex -out mytex.tex *.pod
pod2latex -full -sections 'DESCRIPTION|NAME' SomeDir
pod2latex -prefile h.tex -postfile t.tex my.pod
"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.
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.
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.
Pod::LaTeX
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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