NAME

pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format

SYNOPSIS

  pod2latex *.pm

  pod2latex -out mytex.tex *.pod

  pod2latex -full -sections 'DESCRIPTION|NAME' SomeDir

  pod2latex -prefile h.tex -postfile t.tex my.pod

DESCRIPTION

pod2latex is a program to convert POD format documentation (perlpod) into latex. It can process multiple input documents at a time and either generate a latex file per input document or a single combined output file.

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

This section describes the supported command line options. Minimum matching is supported.

-out
Name of the output file to be used. If there are multiple input pods it is assumed that the intention is to write all translated output into a single file. .tex is appended if not present. If the argument is not supplied, a single document will be created for each input file.
-full
Creates a complete latex file that can be processed immediately (unless =for/=begin directives are used that rely on extra packages). Table of contents and index generation commands are included in the wrapper latex code.
-sections
Specify pod sections to include (or remove if negated) in the translation. See Pod::Select/"SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" for the format to use for section-spec. This option may be given multiple times on the command line.This is identical to the similar option in the podselect() command.
-modify
This option causes the output latex to be slightly modified from the input pod such that when a =head1 NAME is encountered a section is created containing the actual pod name (rather than NAME) and all subsequent =head1 directives are treated as subsections. This has the advantage that the description of a module will be in its own section which is helpful for including module descriptions in documentation. Also forces latex label and index entries to be prefixed by the name of the module.
-h1level
Specifies the latex section that is equivalent to a H1 pod directive. This is an integer between 0 and 5 with 0 equivalent to a latex chapter, 1 equivalent to a latex section etc. The default is 1 (H1 equivalent to a latex section).
-help
Print a brief help message and exit.
-man
Print the manual page and exit.
-verbose
Print information messages as each document is processed.
-preamble
A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple values are supported and appended in order separated by "\n". See -prefile for reading the preamble from a file.
-postamble
A user supplied postamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple values are supported and appended in order separated by "\n". See -postfile for reading the postamble from a file.
-prefile
A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code to be read from the named file. Multiple values are supported and appended in order. See -preamble.
-postfile
A user-supplied postamble for the LaTeX code to be read from the named file. Multiple values are supported and appended in order. See -postamble.

BUGS

Known bugs are:

SEE ALSO

Pod::LaTeX

AUTHOR

Tim Jenness <tjenness@cpan.org>

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

Copyright (C) 2000, 2003, 2004 Tim Jenness. All Rights Reserved.