Pod::Text - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text

- NAME
- SYNOPSIS
- DESCRIPTION
- AUTHOR
- TODO

# NAME

Pod::Text - convert POD data to formatted ASCII text

# SYNOPSIS

            use Pod::Text;

            pod2text("perlfunc.pod");

Also:

            pod2text [B<-a>] [B<->I<width>] < input.pod

# DESCRIPTION

Pod::Text is a module that can convert documentation in the POD format (such as can be found throughout the Perl distribution) into formatted ASCII. Termcap is optionally supported for boldface/underline, and can enabled via `$Pod::Text::termcap=1`. If termcap has not been enabled, then backspaces will be used to simulate bold and underlined text.

A separate pod2text program is included that is primarily a wrapper for Pod::Text.

The single function `pod2text()` can take the optional options -a for an alternative output format, then a -width option with the max terminal width, followed by one or two arguments. The first should be the name of a file to read the pod from, or ``< &STDIN'' to read from STDIN. A second argument, if provided, should be a filehandle glob where output should be sent.

# AUTHOR

Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>

# TODO

Cleanup work. The input and output locations need to be more flexible, termcap shouldn't be a global variable, and the terminal speed needs to be properly calculated.