Pod::Text::Overstrike(3pm)
NAME
Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
SYNOPSIS
use Pod::Text::Overstrike;
my $parser = Pod::Text::Overstrike->new (sentence => 0, width => 78);
# Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
$parser->parse_from_filehandle;
# Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
$parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');
DESCRIPTION
Pod::Text::Overstrike is a simple subclass of Pod::Text that highlights
output text using overstrike sequences, in a manner similar to nroff.
Characters in bold text are overstruck (character, backspace, character) and characters in underlined text are converted to overstruck
underscores (underscore, backspace, character). This format was originally designed for hardcopy terminals and/or lineprinters, yet is readable on softcopy (CRT) terminals.
Overstruck text is best viewed by page-at-a-time programs that take
advantage of the terminal's stand-out and underline capabilities, such
as the less program on Unix.
Apart from the overstrike, it in all ways functions like Pod::Text.
See Pod::Text for details and available options.
BUGS
Currently, the outermost formatting instruction wins, so for example
underlined text inside a region of bold text is displayed as simply
bold. There may be some better approach possible.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Text, Pod::Parser
The current version of this module is always available from its web
site at <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also
part of the Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
AUTHOR
Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>, using the framework created by Russ
Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2000 by Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>. Copyright 2001 by
Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
- This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.