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- # Pod::Text -- Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text.
- # $Id: Text.pm,v 3.8 2006-09-16 20:55:41 eagle Exp $
- #
- # Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006
- # 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.
- #
- # This module converts POD to formatted text. It replaces the old Pod::Text
- # module that came with versions of Perl prior to 5.6.0 and attempts to match
- # its output except for some specific circumstances where other decisions
- # seemed to produce better output. It uses Pod::Parser and is designed to be
- # very easy to subclass.
- #
- # Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
- # maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
- # me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
- # standard Perl mailing lists.
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Modules and declarations
- ##############################################################################
-
- package Pod::Text;
-
- require 5.004;
-
- use strict;
- use vars qw(@ISA @EXPORT %ESCAPES $VERSION);
-
- use Carp qw(carp croak);
- use Exporter ();
- use Pod::Simple ();
-
- @ISA = qw(Pod::Simple Exporter);
-
- # We have to export pod2text for backward compatibility.
- @EXPORT = qw(pod2text);
-
- # Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in Perl
- # core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings. This
- # number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators, however.
- $VERSION = 3.08;
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Initialization
- ##############################################################################
-
- # This function handles code blocks. It's registered as a callback to
- # Pod::Simple and therefore doesn't work as a regular method call, but all it
- # does is call output_code with the line.
- sub handle_code {
- my ($line, $number, $parser) = @_;
- $parser->output_code ($line . "\n");
- }
-
- # Initialize the object and set various Pod::Simple options that we need.
- # Here, we also process any additional options passed to the constructor or
- # set up defaults if none were given. Note that all internal object keys are
- # in all-caps, reserving all lower-case object keys for Pod::Simple and user
- # arguments.
- sub new {
- my $class = shift;
- my $self = $class->SUPER::new;
-
- # Tell Pod::Simple to handle S<> by automatically inserting .
- $self->nbsp_for_S (1);
-
- # Tell Pod::Simple to keep whitespace whenever possible.
- if ($self->can ('preserve_whitespace')) {
- $self->preserve_whitespace (1);
- } else {
- $self->fullstop_space_harden (1);
- }
-
- # The =for and =begin targets that we accept.
- $self->accept_targets (qw/text TEXT/);
-
- # Ensure that contiguous blocks of code are merged together. Otherwise,
- # some of the guesswork heuristics don't work right.
- $self->merge_text (1);
-
- # Pod::Simple doesn't do anything useful with our arguments, but we want
- # to put them in our object as hash keys and values. This could cause
- # problems if we ever clash with Pod::Simple's own internal class
- # variables.
- my %opts = @_;
- my @opts = map { ("opt_$_", $opts{$_}) } keys %opts;
- %$self = (%$self, @opts);
-
- # Initialize various things from our parameters.
- $$self{opt_alt} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_alt};
- $$self{opt_indent} = 4 unless defined $$self{opt_indent};
- $$self{opt_margin} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_margin};
- $$self{opt_loose} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_loose};
- $$self{opt_sentence} = 0 unless defined $$self{opt_sentence};
- $$self{opt_width} = 76 unless defined $$self{opt_width};
-
- # Figure out what quotes we'll be using for C<> text.
- $$self{opt_quotes} ||= '"';
- if ($$self{opt_quotes} eq 'none') {
- $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
- } elsif (length ($$self{opt_quotes}) == 1) {
- $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{opt_quotes};
- } elsif ($$self{opt_quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
- || $$self{opt_quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
- $$self{LQUOTE} = $1;
- $$self{RQUOTE} = $2;
- } else {
- croak qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{opt_quotes}");
- }
-
- # If requested, do something with the non-POD text.
- $self->code_handler (\&handle_code) if $$self{opt_code};
-
- # Return the created object.
- return $self;
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Core parsing
- ##############################################################################
-
- # This is the glue that connects the code below with Pod::Simple itself. The
- # goal is to convert the event stream coming from the POD parser into method
- # calls to handlers once the complete content of a tag has been seen. Each
- # paragraph or POD command will have textual content associated with it, and
- # as soon as all of a paragraph or POD command has been seen, that content
- # will be passed in to the corresponding method for handling that type of
- # object. The exceptions are handlers for lists, which have opening tag
- # handlers and closing tag handlers that will be called right away.
- #
- # The internal hash key PENDING is used to store the contents of a tag until
- # all of it has been seen. It holds a stack of open tags, each one
- # represented by a tuple of the attributes hash for the tag and the contents
- # of the tag.
-
- # Add a block of text to the contents of the current node, formatting it
- # according to the current formatting instructions as we do.
- sub _handle_text {
- my ($self, $text) = @_;
- my $tag = $$self{PENDING}[-1];
- $$tag[1] .= $text;
- }
-
- # Given an element name, get the corresponding method name.
- sub method_for_element {
- my ($self, $element) = @_;
- $element =~ tr/-/_/;
- $element =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
- $element =~ tr/_a-z0-9//cd;
- return $element;
- }
-
- # Handle the start of a new element. If cmd_element is defined, assume that
- # we need to collect the entire tree for this element before passing it to the
- # element method, and create a new tree into which we'll collect blocks of
- # text and nested elements. Otherwise, if start_element is defined, call it.
- sub _handle_element_start {
- my ($self, $element, $attrs) = @_;
- my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
-
- # If we have a command handler, we need to accumulate the contents of the
- # tag before calling it.
- if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
- push (@{ $$self{PENDING} }, [ $attrs, '' ]);
- } elsif ($self->can ("start_$method")) {
- my $method = 'start_' . $method;
- $self->$method ($attrs, '');
- }
- }
-
- # Handle the end of an element. If we had a cmd_ method for this element,
- # this is where we pass along the text that we've accumulated. Otherwise, if
- # we have an end_ method for the element, call that.
- sub _handle_element_end {
- my ($self, $element) = @_;
- my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
-
- # If we have a command handler, pull off the pending text and pass it to
- # the handler along with the saved attribute hash.
- if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
- my $tag = pop @{ $$self{PENDING} };
- my $method = 'cmd_' . $method;
- my $text = $self->$method (@$tag);
- if (defined $text) {
- if (@{ $$self{PENDING} } > 1) {
- $$self{PENDING}[-1][1] .= $text;
- } else {
- $self->output ($text);
- }
- }
- } elsif ($self->can ("end_$method")) {
- my $method = 'end_' . $method;
- $self->$method ();
- }
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Output formatting
- ##############################################################################
-
- # Wrap a line, indenting by the current left margin. We can't use Text::Wrap
- # because it plays games with tabs. We can't use formline, even though we'd
- # really like to, because it screws up non-printing characters. So we have to
- # do the wrapping ourselves.
- sub wrap {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
- my $output = '';
- my $spaces = ' ' x $$self{MARGIN};
- my $width = $$self{opt_width} - $$self{MARGIN};
- while (length > $width) {
- if (s/^([^\n]{0,$width})\s+// || s/^([^\n]{$width})//) {
- $output .= $spaces . $1 . "\n";
- } else {
- last;
- }
- }
- $output .= $spaces . $_;
- $output =~ s/\s+$/\n\n/;
- return $output;
- }
-
- # Reformat a paragraph of text for the current margin. Takes the text to
- # reformat and returns the formatted text.
- sub reformat {
- my $self = shift;
- local $_ = shift;
-
- # If we're trying to preserve two spaces after sentences, do some munging
- # to support that. Otherwise, smash all repeated whitespace.
- if ($$self{opt_sentence}) {
- s/ +$//mg;
- s/\.\n/. \n/g;
- s/\n/ /g;
- s/ +/ /g;
- } else {
- s/\s+/ /g;
- }
- return $self->wrap ($_);
- }
-
- # Output text to the output device.
- sub output {
- my ($self, $text) = @_;
- $text =~ tr/\240\255/ /d;
- print { $$self{output_fh} } $text;
- }
-
- # Output a block of code (something that isn't part of the POD text). Called
- # by preprocess_paragraph only if we were given the code option. Exists here
- # only so that it can be overridden by subclasses.
- sub output_code { $_[0]->output ($_[1]) }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Document initialization
- ##############################################################################
-
- # Set up various things that have to be initialized on a per-document basis.
- sub start_document {
- my $self = shift;
- my $margin = $$self{opt_indent} + $$self{opt_margin};
-
- # Initialize a few per-document variables.
- $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
- $$self{MARGIN} = $margin; # Default left margin.
- $$self{PENDING} = [[]]; # Pending output.
-
- return '';
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Text blocks
- ##############################################################################
-
- # This method is called whenever an =item command is complete (in other words,
- # we've seen its associated paragraph or know for certain that it doesn't have
- # one). It gets the paragraph associated with the item as an argument. If
- # that argument is empty, just output the item tag; if it contains a newline,
- # output the item tag followed by the newline. Otherwise, see if there's
- # enough room for us to output the item tag in the margin of the text or if we
- # have to put it on a separate line.
- sub item {
- my ($self, $text) = @_;
- my $tag = $$self{ITEM};
- unless (defined $tag) {
- carp "Item called without tag";
- return;
- }
- undef $$self{ITEM};
-
- # Calculate the indentation and margin. $fits is set to true if the tag
- # will fit into the margin of the paragraph given our indentation level.
- my $indent = $$self{INDENTS}[-1];
- $indent = $$self{opt_indent} unless defined $indent;
- my $margin = ' ' x $$self{opt_margin};
- my $fits = ($$self{MARGIN} - $indent >= length ($tag) + 1);
-
- # If the tag doesn't fit, or if we have no associated text, print out the
- # tag separately. Otherwise, put the tag in the margin of the paragraph.
- if (!$text || $text =~ /^\s+$/ || !$fits) {
- my $realindent = $$self{MARGIN};
- $$self{MARGIN} = $indent;
- my $output = $self->reformat ($tag);
- $output =~ s/^$margin /$margin:/ if ($$self{opt_alt} && $indent > 0);
- $output =~ s/\n*$/\n/;
-
- # If the text is just whitespace, we have an empty item paragraph;
- # this can result from =over/=item/=back without any intermixed
- # paragraphs. Insert some whitespace to keep the =item from merging
- # into the next paragraph.
- $output .= "\n" if $text && $text =~ /^\s*$/;
-
- $self->output ($output);
- $$self{MARGIN} = $realindent;
- $self->output ($self->reformat ($text)) if ($text && $text =~ /\S/);
- } else {
- my $space = ' ' x $indent;
- $space =~ s/^$margin /$margin:/ if $$self{opt_alt};
- $text = $self->reformat ($text);
- $text =~ s/^$margin /$margin:/ if ($$self{opt_alt} && $indent > 0);
- my $tagspace = ' ' x length $tag;
- $text =~ s/^($space)$tagspace/$1$tag/ or warn "Bizarre space in item";
- $self->output ($text);
- }
- }
-
- # Handle a basic block of text. The only tricky thing here is that if there
- # is a pending item tag, we need to format this as an item paragraph.
- sub cmd_para {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $text =~ s/\s+$/\n/;
- if (defined $$self{ITEM}) {
- $self->item ($text . "\n");
- } else {
- $self->output ($self->reformat ($text . "\n"));
- }
- return '';
- }
-
- # Handle a verbatim paragraph. Just print it out, but indent it according to
- # our margin.
- sub cmd_verbatim {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $self->item if defined $$self{ITEM};
- return if $text =~ /^\s*$/;
- $text =~ s/^(\n*)(\s*\S+)/$1 . (' ' x $$self{MARGIN}) . $2/gme;
- $text =~ s/\s*$/\n\n/;
- $self->output ($text);
- return '';
- }
-
- # Handle literal text (produced by =for and similar constructs). Just output
- # it with the minimum of changes.
- sub cmd_data {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $text =~ s/^\n+//;
- $text =~ s/\n{0,2}$/\n/;
- $self->output ($text);
- return '';
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Headings
- ##############################################################################
-
- # The common code for handling all headers. Takes the header text, the
- # indentation, and the surrounding marker for the alt formatting method.
- sub heading {
- my ($self, $text, $indent, $marker) = @_;
- $self->item ("\n\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
- $text =~ s/\s+$//;
- if ($$self{opt_alt}) {
- my $closemark = reverse (split (//, $marker));
- my $margin = ' ' x $$self{opt_margin};
- $self->output ("\n" . "$margin$marker $text $closemark" . "\n\n");
- } else {
- $text .= "\n" if $$self{opt_loose};
- my $margin = ' ' x ($$self{opt_margin} + $indent);
- $self->output ($margin . $text . "\n");
- }
- return '';
- }
-
- # First level heading.
- sub cmd_head1 {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $self->heading ($text, 0, '====');
- }
-
- # Second level heading.
- sub cmd_head2 {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $self->heading ($text, $$self{opt_indent} / 2, '== ');
- }
-
- # Third level heading.
- sub cmd_head3 {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $self->heading ($text, $$self{opt_indent} * 2 / 3 + 0.5, '= ');
- }
-
- # Fourth level heading.
- sub cmd_head4 {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $self->heading ($text, $$self{opt_indent} * 3 / 4 + 0.5, '- ');
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # List handling
- ##############################################################################
-
- # Handle the beginning of an =over block. Takes the type of the block as the
- # first argument, and then the attr hash. This is called by the handlers for
- # the four different types of lists (bullet, number, text, and block).
- sub over_common_start {
- my ($self, $attrs) = @_;
- $self->item ("\n\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
-
- # Find the indentation level.
- my $indent = $$attrs{indent};
- unless (defined ($indent) && $indent =~ /^\s*[-+]?\d{1,4}\s*$/) {
- $indent = $$self{opt_indent};
- }
-
- # Add this to our stack of indents and increase our current margin.
- push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{MARGIN});
- $$self{MARGIN} += ($indent + 0);
- return '';
- }
-
- # End an =over block. Takes no options other than the class pointer. Output
- # any pending items and then pop one level of indentation.
- sub over_common_end {
- my ($self) = @_;
- $self->item ("\n\n") if defined $$self{ITEM};
- $$self{MARGIN} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
- return '';
- }
-
- # Dispatch the start and end calls as appropriate.
- sub start_over_bullet { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
- sub start_over_number { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
- sub start_over_text { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
- sub start_over_block { $_[0]->over_common_start ($_[1]) }
- sub end_over_bullet { $_[0]->over_common_end }
- sub end_over_number { $_[0]->over_common_end }
- sub end_over_text { $_[0]->over_common_end }
- sub end_over_block { $_[0]->over_common_end }
-
- # The common handler for all item commands. Takes the type of the item, the
- # attributes, and then the text of the item.
- sub item_common {
- my ($self, $type, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- $self->item if defined $$self{ITEM};
-
- # Clean up the text. We want to end up with two variables, one ($text)
- # which contains any body text after taking out the item portion, and
- # another ($item) which contains the actual item text. Note the use of
- # the internal Pod::Simple attribute here; that's a potential land mine.
- $text =~ s/\s+$//;
- my ($item, $index);
- if ($type eq 'bullet') {
- $item = '*';
- } elsif ($type eq 'number') {
- $item = $$attrs{'~orig_content'};
- } else {
- $item = $text;
- $item =~ s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
- $text = '';
- }
- $$self{ITEM} = $item;
-
- # If body text for this item was included, go ahead and output that now.
- if ($text) {
- $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
- $self->item ($text);
- }
- return '';
- }
-
- # Dispatch the item commands to the appropriate place.
- sub cmd_item_bullet { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('bullet', @_) }
- sub cmd_item_number { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('number', @_) }
- sub cmd_item_text { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('text', @_) }
- sub cmd_item_block { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('block', @_) }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Formatting codes
- ##############################################################################
-
- # The simple ones.
- sub cmd_b { return $_[0]{alt} ? "``$_[2]''" : $_[2] }
- sub cmd_f { return $_[0]{alt} ? "\"$_[2]\"" : $_[2] }
- sub cmd_i { return '*' . $_[2] . '*' }
- sub cmd_x { return '' }
-
- # Apply a whole bunch of messy heuristics to not quote things that don't
- # benefit from being quoted. These originally come from Barrie Slaymaker and
- # largely duplicate code in Pod::Man.
- sub cmd_c {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
-
- # A regex that matches the portion of a variable reference that's the
- # array or hash index, separated out just because we want to use it in
- # several places in the following regex.
- my $index = '(?: \[.*\] | \{.*\} )?';
-
- # Check for things that we don't want to quote, and if we find any of
- # them, return the string with just a font change and no quoting.
- $text =~ m{
- ^\s*
- (?:
- ( [\'\`\"] ) .* \1 # already quoted
- | \` .* \' # `quoted'
- | \$+ [\#^]? \S $index # special ($^Foo, $")
- | [\$\@%&*]+ \#? [:\'\w]+ $index # plain var or func
- | [\$\@%&*]* [:\'\w]+ (?: -> )? \(\s*[^\s,]\s*\) # 0/1-arg func call
- | [+-]? ( \d[\d.]* | \.\d+ ) (?: [eE][+-]?\d+ )? # a number
- | 0x [a-fA-F\d]+ # a hex constant
- )
- \s*\z
- }xo && return $text;
-
- # If we didn't return, go ahead and quote the text.
- return $$self{opt_alt}
- ? "``$text''"
- : "$$self{LQUOTE}$text$$self{RQUOTE}";
- }
-
- # Links reduce to the text that we're given, wrapped in angle brackets if it's
- # a URL.
- sub cmd_l {
- my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
- return $$attrs{type} eq 'url' ? "<$text>" : $text;
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Backwards compatibility
- ##############################################################################
-
- # The old Pod::Text module did everything in a pod2text() function. This
- # tries to provide the same interface for legacy applications.
- sub pod2text {
- my @args;
-
- # This is really ugly; I hate doing option parsing in the middle of a
- # module. But the old Pod::Text module supported passing flags to its
- # entry function, so handle -a and -<number>.
- while ($_[0] =~ /^-/) {
- my $flag = shift;
- if ($flag eq '-a') { push (@args, alt => 1) }
- elsif ($flag =~ /^-(\d+)$/) { push (@args, width => $1) }
- else {
- unshift (@_, $flag);
- last;
- }
- }
-
- # Now that we know what arguments we're using, create the parser.
- my $parser = Pod::Text->new (@args);
-
- # If two arguments were given, the second argument is going to be a file
- # handle. That means we want to call parse_from_filehandle(), which means
- # we need to turn the first argument into a file handle. Magic open will
- # handle the <&STDIN case automagically.
- if (defined $_[1]) {
- my @fhs = @_;
- local *IN;
- unless (open (IN, $fhs[0])) {
- croak ("Can't open $fhs[0] for reading: $!\n");
- return;
- }
- $fhs[0] = \*IN;
- $parser->output_fh ($fhs[1]);
- my $retval = $parser->parse_file ($fhs[0]);
- my $fh = $parser->output_fh ();
- close $fh;
- return $retval;
- } else {
- return $parser->parse_file (@_);
- }
- }
-
- # Reset the underlying Pod::Simple object between calls to parse_from_file so
- # that the same object can be reused to convert multiple pages.
- sub parse_from_file {
- my $self = shift;
- $self->reinit;
-
- # Fake the old cutting option to Pod::Parser. This fiddings with internal
- # Pod::Simple state and is quite ugly; we need a better approach.
- if (ref ($_[0]) eq 'HASH') {
- my $opts = shift @_;
- if (defined ($$opts{-cutting}) && !$$opts{-cutting}) {
- $$self{in_pod} = 1;
- $$self{last_was_blank} = 1;
- }
- }
-
- # Do the work.
- my $retval = $self->Pod::Simple::parse_from_file (@_);
-
- # Flush output, since Pod::Simple doesn't do this. Ideally we should also
- # close the file descriptor if we had to open one, but we can't easily
- # figure this out.
- my $fh = $self->output_fh ();
- my $oldfh = select $fh;
- my $oldflush = $|;
- $| = 1;
- print $fh '';
- $| = $oldflush;
- select $oldfh;
- return $retval;
- }
-
- # Pod::Simple failed to provide this backward compatibility function, so
- # implement it ourselves. File handles are one of the inputs that
- # parse_from_file supports.
- sub parse_from_filehandle {
- my $self = shift;
- $self->parse_from_file (@_);
- }
-
- ##############################################################################
- # Module return value and documentation
- ##############################################################################
-
- 1;
- __END__
-
- =head1 NAME
-
- Pod::Text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
-
- =head1 SYNOPSIS
-
- use Pod::Text;
- my $parser = Pod::Text->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');
-
- =head1 DESCRIPTION
-
- Pod::Text is a module that can convert documentation in the POD format (the
- preferred language for documenting Perl) into formatted ASCII. It uses no
- special formatting controls or codes whatsoever, and its output is therefore
- suitable for nearly any device.
-
- As a derived class from Pod::Simple, Pod::Text supports the same methods and
- interfaces. See L<Pod::Simple> for all the details; briefly, one creates a
- new parser with C<< Pod::Text->new() >> and then normally calls parse_file().
-
- new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs, that control the
- behavior of the parser. The currently recognized options are:
-
- =over 4
-
- =item alt
-
- If set to a true value, selects an alternate output format that, among other
- things, uses a different heading style and marks C<=item> entries with a
- colon in the left margin. Defaults to false.
-
- =item code
-
- If set to a true value, the non-POD parts of the input file will be included
- in the output. Useful for viewing code documented with POD blocks with the
- POD rendered and the code left intact.
-
- =item indent
-
- The number of spaces to indent regular text, and the default indentation for
- C<=over> blocks. Defaults to 4.
-
- =item loose
-
- If set to a true value, a blank line is printed after a C<=head1> heading.
- If set to false (the default), no blank line is printed after C<=head1>,
- although one is still printed after C<=head2>. This is the default because
- it's the expected formatting for manual pages; if you're formatting
- arbitrary text documents, setting this to true may result in more pleasing
- output.
-
- =item margin
-
- The width of the left margin in spaces. Defaults to 0. This is the margin
- for all text, including headings, not the amount by which regular text is
- indented; for the latter, see the I<indent> option. To set the right
- margin, see the I<width> option.
-
- =item quotes
-
- Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
- single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two
- characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as
- the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as
- the left quote and the second two as the right quote.
-
- This may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote
- marks are added around CE<lt>> text.
-
- =item sentence
-
- If set to a true value, Pod::Text will assume that each sentence ends in two
- spaces, and will try to preserve that spacing. If set to false, all
- consecutive whitespace in non-verbatim paragraphs is compressed into a
- single space. Defaults to true.
-
- =item width
-
- The column at which to wrap text on the right-hand side. Defaults to 76.
-
- =back
-
- The standard Pod::Simple method parse_file() takes one argument, the file or
- file handle to read from, and writes output to standard output unless that
- has been changed with the output_fh() method. See L<Pod::Simple> for the
- specific details and for other alternative interfaces.
-
- =head1 DIAGNOSTICS
-
- =over 4
-
- =item Bizarre space in item
-
- =item Item called without tag
-
- (W) Something has gone wrong in internal C<=item> processing. These
- messages indicate a bug in Pod::Text; you should never see them.
-
- =item Can't open %s for reading: %s
-
- (F) Pod::Text was invoked via the compatibility mode pod2text() interface
- and the input file it was given could not be opened.
-
- =item Invalid quote specification "%s"
-
- (F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
- invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
-
- =back
-
- =head1 NOTES
-
- This is a replacement for an earlier Pod::Text module written by Tom
- Christiansen. It has a revamped interface, since it now uses Pod::Simple,
- but an interface roughly compatible with the old Pod::Text::pod2text()
- function is still available. Please change to the new calling convention,
- though.
-
- The original Pod::Text contained code to do formatting via termcap
- sequences, although it wasn't turned on by default and it was problematic to
- get it to work at all. This rewrite doesn't even try to do that, but a
- subclass of it does. Look for L<Pod::Text::Termcap>.
-
- =head1 SEE ALSO
-
- L<Pod::Simple>, L<Pod::Text::Termcap>, L<pod2text(1)>
-
- The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
- L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
- Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
-
- =head1 AUTHOR
-
- Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, based I<very> heavily on the original
- Pod::Text by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com> and its conversion to
- Pod::Parser by Brad Appleton <bradapp@enteract.com>. Sean Burke's initial
- conversion of Pod::Man to use Pod::Simple provided much-needed guidance on
- how to use Pod::Simple.
-
- =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
-
- Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006 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.
-
- =cut
-