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Pod::Text(3)	 Perl Programmers Reference Guide    Pod::Text(3)

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.

16/Sep/1999	       perl 5.005, patch 03			1

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