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<h1>pod2man</h1>
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<ul><li><a href="#NAME">NAME</a><li><a href="#SYNOPSIS">SYNOPSIS</a><li><a href="#DESCRIPTION">DESCRIPTION</a><li><a href="#OPTIONS">OPTIONS</a><li><a href="#EXIT-STATUS">EXIT STATUS</a><li><a href="#DIAGNOSTICS">DIAGNOSTICS</a><li><a href="#EXAMPLES">EXAMPLES</a><li><a href="#BUGS">BUGS</a><li><a href="#SEE-ALSO">SEE ALSO</a><li><a href="#AUTHOR">AUTHOR</a><li><a href="#COPYRIGHT-AND-LICENSE">COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE</a></ul><a name="NAME"></a><h1>NAME</h1>
<p>pod2man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input</p>
<a name="SYNOPSIS"></a><h1>SYNOPSIS</h1>
<p>pod2man [<b>--center</b>=<i>string</i>] [<b>--date</b>=<i>string</i>] [<b>--errors</b>=<i>style</i>]
[<b>--fixed</b>=<i>font</i>] [<b>--fixedbold</b>=<i>font</i>] [<b>--fixeditalic</b>=<i>font</i>]
[<b>--fixedbolditalic</b>=<i>font</i>] [<b>--name</b>=<i>name</i>] [<b>--nourls</b>]
[<b>--official</b>] [<b>--quotes</b>=<i>quotes</i>] [<b>--release</b>[=<i>version</i>]]
[<b>--section</b>=<i>manext</i>] [<b>--stderr</b>] [<b>--utf8</b>] [<b>--verbose</b>]
[<i>input</i> [<i>output</i>] ...]</p>
<p>pod2man <b>--help</b></p>
<a name="DESCRIPTION"></a><h1>DESCRIPTION</h1>
<p><b>pod2man</b> is a front-end for Pod::Man, using it to generate *roff input
from POD source. The resulting *roff code is suitable for display on a
terminal using nroff(1), normally via man(1), or printing using troff(1).</p>
<p><i>input</i> is the file to read for POD source (the POD can be embedded in
code). If <i>input</i> isn't given, it defaults to <code class="inline"><span class="w">STDIN</span></code>
. <i>output</i>, if
given, is the file to which to write the formatted output. If <i>output</i>
isn't given, the formatted output is written to <code class="inline"><span class="w">STDOUT</span></code>
. Several POD
files can be processed in the same <b>pod2man</b> invocation (saving module
load and compile times) by providing multiple pairs of <i>input</i> and
<i>output</i> files on the command line.</p>
<p><b>--section</b>, <b>--release</b>, <b>--center</b>, <b>--date</b>, and <b>--official</b> can
be used to set the headers and footers to use; if not given, Pod::Man will
assume various defaults. See below or <a href="Pod/Man.html">Pod::Man</a> for details.</p>
<p><b>pod2man</b> assumes that your *roff formatters have a fixed-width font
named <code class="inline"><span class="w">CW</span></code>
. If yours is called something else (like <code class="inline"><span class="w">CR</span></code>
), use
<b>--fixed</b> to specify it. This generally only matters for troff output
for printing. Similarly, you can set the fonts used for bold, italic, and
bold italic fixed-width output.</p>
<p>Besides the obvious pod conversions, Pod::Man, and therefore pod2man also
takes care of formatting func(), func(n), and simple variable references
like $foo or @bar so you don't have to use code escapes for them; complex
expressions like <code class="inline"><span class="i">$fred</span>{<span class="q">'stuff'</span>}</code>
will still need to be escaped, though.
It also translates dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes, makes
long dashes--like this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired quotes," and
takes care of several other troff-specific tweaks. See <a href="Pod/Man.html">Pod::Man</a> for
complete information.</p>
<a name="OPTIONS"></a><h1>OPTIONS</h1>
<ul>
<li><a name="*-c*-_string_%2c-*--center*%3d_string_"></a><b><b>-c</b> <i>string</i>, <b>--center</b>=<i>string</i></b>
<p>Sets the centered page header to <i>string</i>. The default is "User
Contributed Perl Documentation", but also see <b>--official</b> below.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-d*-_string_%2c-*--date*%3d_string_"></a><b><b>-d</b> <i>string</i>, <b>--date</b>=<i>string</i></b>
<p>Set the left-hand footer string to this value. By default, the modification
date of the input file will be used, or the current date if input comes from
<code class="inline"><span class="w">STDIN</span></code>
.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-errors*%3d_style_"></a><b><b>-errors</b>=<i>style</i></b>
<p>Set the error handling style. <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/die.html">die</a></code> says to throw an exception on any
POD formatting error. <code class="inline"><span class="w">stderr</span></code>
says to report errors on standard error,
but not to throw an exception. <code class="inline"><span class="w">pod</span></code>
says to include a POD ERRORS
section in the resulting documentation summarizing the errors. <code class="inline"><span class="w">none</span></code>
ignores POD errors entirely, as much as possible.</p>
<p>The default is <code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/die.html">die</a></code>.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*--fixed*%3d_font_"></a><b><b>--fixed</b>=<i>font</i></b>
<p>The fixed-width font to use for verbatim text and code. Defaults to
<code class="inline"><span class="w">CW</span></code>
. Some systems may want <code class="inline"><span class="w">CR</span></code>
instead. Only matters for troff(1)
output.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*--fixedbold*%3d_font_"></a><b><b>--fixedbold</b>=<i>font</i></b>
<p>Bold version of the fixed-width font. Defaults to <code class="inline"><span class="w">CB</span></code>
. Only matters
for troff(1) output.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*--fixeditalic*%3d_font_"></a><b><b>--fixeditalic</b>=<i>font</i></b>
<p>Italic version of the fixed-width font (actually, something of a misnomer,
since most fixed-width fonts only have an oblique version, not an italic
version). Defaults to <code class="inline"><span class="w">CI</span></code>
. Only matters for troff(1) output.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*--fixedbolditalic*%3d_font_"></a><b><b>--fixedbolditalic</b>=<i>font</i></b>
<p>Bold italic (probably actually oblique) version of the fixed-width font.
Pod::Man doesn't assume you have this, and defaults to <code class="inline"><span class="w">CB</span></code>
. Some
systems (such as Solaris) have this font available as <code class="inline"><span class="w">CX</span></code>
. Only matters
for troff(1) output.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-h*%2c-*--help*"></a><b><b>-h</b>, <b>--help</b></b>
<p>Print out usage information.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-l*%2c-*--lax*"></a><b><b>-l</b>, <b>--lax</b></b>
<p>No longer used. <b>pod2man</b> used to check its input for validity as a
manual page, but this should now be done by <i>podchecker(1)</i> instead.
Accepted for backward compatibility; this option no longer does anything.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-n*-_name_%2c-*--name*%3d_name_"></a><b><b>-n</b> <i>name</i>, <b>--name</b>=<i>name</i></b>
<p>Set the name of the manual page to <i>name</i>. Without this option, the manual
name is set to the uppercased base name of the file being converted unless
the manual section is 3, in which case the path is parsed to see if it is a
Perl module path. If it is, a path like <code class="inline">.../lib/Pod/Man.pm</code> is converted
into a name like <code class="inline"><span class="w">Pod::Man</span></code>
. This option, if given, overrides any
automatic determination of the name.</p>
<p>Note that this option is probably not useful when converting multiple POD
files at once. The convention for Unix man pages for commands is for the
man page title to be in all-uppercase even if the command isn't.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*--nourls*"></a><b><b>--nourls</b></b>
<p>Normally, L<> formatting codes with a URL but anchor text are formatted
to show both the anchor text and the URL. In other words:</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> <span class="w">L</span><<span class="w">foo</span>|<span class="w">http</span><span class="co">:</span><span class="q">//</span><span class="w">example</span>.<span class="w">com</span><span class="q">/></span></li></ol></pre><p>is formatted as:</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> <span class="w">foo</span> <span class="q"><<a href="http://example.com/">http://example.com/</a>></span></li></ol></pre><p>This flag, if given, suppresses the URL when anchor text is given, so this
example would be formatted as just <code class="inline"><span class="w">foo</span></code>
. This can produce less
cluttered output in cases where the URLs are not particularly important.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-o*%2c-*--official*"></a><b><b>-o</b>, <b>--official</b></b>
<p>Set the default header to indicate that this page is part of the standard
Perl release, if <b>--center</b> is not also given.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-q*-_quotes_%2c-*--quotes*%3d_quotes_"></a><b><b>-q</b> <i>quotes</i>, <b>--quotes</b>=<i>quotes</i></b>
<p>Sets the quote marks used to surround C<> text to <i>quotes</i>. If
<i>quotes</i> is a single character, it is used as both the left and right
quote; if <i>quotes</i> is two characters, the first character is used as the
left quote and the second as the right quoted; and if <i>quotes</i> is four
characters, the first two are used as the left quote and the second two as
the right quote.</p>
<p><i>quotes</i> may also be set to the special value <code class="inline"><span class="w">none</span></code>
, in which case no
quote marks are added around C<> text (but the font is still changed for
troff output).</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-r*%2c-*--release*"></a><b><b>-r</b>, <b>--release</b></b>
<p>Set the centered footer. By default, this is the version of Perl you run
<b>pod2man</b> under. Note that some system an macro sets assume that the
centered footer will be a modification date and will prepend something like
"Last modified: "; if this is the case, you may want to set <b>--release</b> to
the last modified date and <b>--date</b> to the version number.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-s*%2c-*--section*"></a><b><b>-s</b>, <b>--section</b></b>
<p>Set the section for the <code class="inline">.TH</code> macro. The standard section numbering
convention is to use 1 for user commands, 2 for system calls, 3 for
functions, 4 for devices, 5 for file formats, 6 for games, 7 for
miscellaneous information, and 8 for administrator commands. There is a lot
of variation here, however; some systems (like Solaris) use 4 for file
formats, 5 for miscellaneous information, and 7 for devices. Still others
use 1m instead of 8, or some mix of both. About the only section numbers
that are reliably consistent are 1, 2, and 3.</p>
<p>By default, section 1 will be used unless the file ends in <code class="inline">.pm</code>, in
which case section 3 will be selected.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*--stderr*"></a><b><b>--stderr</b></b>
<p>By default, <b>pod2man</b> dies if any errors are detected in the POD input.
If <b>--stderr</b> is given and no <b>--errors</b> flag is present, errors are
sent to standard error, but <b>pod2man</b> does not abort. This is equivalent
to <code class="inline">--<span class="w">errors</span>=<span class="w">stderr</span></code>
and is supported for backward compatibility.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-u*%2c-*--utf8*"></a><b><b>-u</b>, <b>--utf8</b></b>
<p>By default, <b>pod2man</b> produces the most conservative possible *roff
output to try to ensure that it will work with as many different *roff
implementations as possible. Many *roff implementations cannot handle
non-ASCII characters, so this means all non-ASCII characters are converted
either to a *roff escape sequence that tries to create a properly accented
character (at least for troff output) or to <code class="inline"><span class="w">X</span></code>
.</p>
<p>This option says to instead output literal UTF-8 characters. If your
*roff implementation can handle it, this is the best output format to use
and avoids corruption of documents containing non-ASCII characters.
However, be warned that *roff source with literal UTF-8 characters is not
supported by many implementations and may even result in segfaults and
other bad behavior.</p>
<p>Be aware that, when using this option, the input encoding of your POD
source must be properly declared unless it is US-ASCII or Latin-1. POD
input without an <code class="inline"><span class="pd">=encoding</span></code>
command will be assumed to be in Latin-1,
and if it's actually in UTF-8, the output will be double-encoded. See
<i>perlpod(1)</i> for more information on the <code class="inline"><span class="pd">=encoding</span></code>
command.</p>
</li>
<li><a name="*-v*%2c-*--verbose*"></a><b><b>-v</b>, <b>--verbose</b></b>
<p>Print out the name of each output file as it is being generated.</p>
</li>
</ul>
<a name="EXIT-STATUS"></a><h1>EXIT STATUS</h1>
<p>As long as all documents processed result in some output, even if that
output includes errata (a <code class="inline"><span class="w">POD</span> <span class="w">ERRORS</span></code>
section generated with
<code class="inline">--<span class="w">errors</span>=<span class="w">pod</span></code>
), <b>pod2man</b> will exit with status 0. If any of the
documents being processed do not result in an output document, <b>pod2man</b>
will exit with status 1. If there are syntax errors in a POD document
being processed and the error handling style is set to the default of
<code class="inline"><a class="l_k" href="functions/die.html">die</a></code>, <b>pod2man</b> will abort immediately with exit status 255.</p>
<a name="DIAGNOSTICS"></a><h1>DIAGNOSTICS</h1>
<p>If <b>pod2man</b> fails with errors, see <a href="Pod/Man.html">Pod::Man</a> and <a href="Pod/Simple.html">Pod::Simple</a> for
information about what those errors might mean.</p>
<a name="EXAMPLES"></a><h1>EXAMPLES</h1>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> pod2man program > program.1</li><li> pod2man SomeModule.pm /usr/perl/man/man3/SomeModule.3</li><li> pod2man --section=7 note.pod > note.7</li></ol></pre><p>If you would like to print out a lot of man page continuously, you probably
want to set the C and D registers to set contiguous page numbering and
even/odd paging, at least on some versions of man(7).</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> troff -man -rC1 -rD1 perl.1 perldata.1 perlsyn.1 ...</li></ol></pre><p>To get index entries on <code class="inline"><span class="w">STDERR</span></code>
, turn on the F register, as in:</p>
<pre class="verbatim"><ol><li> <span class="w">troff</span> -<span class="w">man</span> -<span class="w">rF1</span> <span class="w">perl</span><span class="n">.1</span></li></ol></pre><p>The indexing merely outputs messages via <code class="inline">.tm</code> for each major page,
section, subsection, item, and any <code class="inline"><span class="w">X</span><></code>
directives. See
<a href="Pod/Man.html">Pod::Man</a> for more details.</p>
<a name="BUGS"></a><h1>BUGS</h1>
<p>Lots of this documentation is duplicated from <a href="Pod/Man.html">Pod::Man</a>.</p>
<a name="SEE-ALSO"></a><h1>SEE ALSO</h1>
<p><a href="Pod/Man.html">Pod::Man</a>, <a href="Pod/Simple.html">Pod::Simple</a>, <i>man(1)</i>, <i>nroff(1)</i>, <i>perlpod(1)</i>,
<i>podchecker(1)</i>, <i>perlpodstyle(1)</i>, <i>troff(1)</i>, <i>man(7)</i></p>
<p>The man page documenting the an macro set may be <i>man(5)</i> instead of
<i>man(7)</i> on your system.</p>
<p>The current version of this script is always available from its web site at
<a href="http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/">http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/</a>. It is also part of the
Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.</p>
<a name="AUTHOR"></a><h1>AUTHOR</h1>
<p>Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, based <i>very</i> heavily on the original
<b>pod2man</b> by Larry Wall and Tom Christiansen.</p>
<a name="COPYRIGHT-AND-LICENSE"></a><h1>COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE</h1>
<p>Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2012, 2013 Russ
Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.</p>
<p>This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.</p>
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