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1# Pod::Man -- Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
2# $Id: Man.pm,v 1.37 2003/03/30 22:34:11 eagle Exp $
3#
4# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by Russ Allbery <[email protected]>
5#
6# This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
7# under the same terms as Perl itself.
8#
9# This module translates POD documentation into *roff markup using the man
10# macro set, and is intended for converting POD documents written as Unix
11# manual pages to manual pages that can be read by the man(1) command. It is
12# a replacement for the pod2man command distributed with versions of Perl
13# prior to 5.6.
14#
15# Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
16# maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
17# me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
18# standard Perl mailing lists.
19
20##############################################################################
21# Modules and declarations
22##############################################################################
23
24package Pod::Man;
25
26require 5.005;
27
28use Carp qw(carp croak);
29use Pod::ParseLink qw(parselink);
30use Pod::Parser ();
31
32use strict;
33use subs qw(makespace);
34use vars qw(@ISA %ESCAPES $PREAMBLE $VERSION);
35
36@ISA = qw(Pod::Parser);
37
38# Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in Perl
39# core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings. This
40# number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators, however.
41$VERSION = 1.37;
42
43
44##############################################################################
45# Preamble and *roff output tables
46##############################################################################
47
48# The following is the static preamble which starts all *roff output we
49# generate. It's completely static except for the font to use as a
50# fixed-width font, which is designed by @CFONT@, and the left and right
51# quotes to use for C<> text, designated by @LQOUTE@ and @RQUOTE@. $PREAMBLE
52# should therefore be run through s/\@CFONT\@/<font>/g before output.
53$PREAMBLE = <<'----END OF PREAMBLE----';
54.de Sh \" Subsection heading
55.br
56.if t .Sp
57.ne 5
58.PP
59\fB\\$1\fR
60.PP
61..
62.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
63.if t .sp .5v
64.if n .sp
65..
66.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text
67.ft @CFONT@
68.nf
69.ne \\$1
70..
71.de Ve \" End verbatim text
72.ft R
73.fi
74..
75.\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will
76.\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left
77.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. | will give a
78.\" real vertical bar. \*(C+ will give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to
79.\" do unbreakable dashes and therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C'
80.\" expand to `' in nroff, nothing in troff, for use with C<>.
81.tr \(*W-|\(bv\*(Tr
82.ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p'
83.ie n \{\
84. ds -- \(*W-
85. ds PI pi
86. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch
87. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch
88. ds L" ""
89. ds R" ""
90. ds C` @LQUOTE@
91. ds C' @RQUOTE@
92'br\}
93.el\{\
94. ds -- \|\(em\|
95. ds PI \(*p
96. ds L" ``
97. ds R" ''
98'br\}
99.\"
100.\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
101.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index
102.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
103.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
104.if \nF \{\
105. de IX
106. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
107..
108. nr % 0
109. rr F
110.\}
111.\"
112.\" For nroff, turn off justification. Always turn off hyphenation; it makes
113.\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
114.hy 0
115.if n .na
116.\"
117.\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2).
118.\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts.
119. \" fudge factors for nroff and troff
120.if n \{\
121. ds #H 0
122. ds #V .8m
123. ds #F .3m
124. ds #[ \f1
125. ds #] \fP
126.\}
127.if t \{\
128. ds #H ((1u-(\\\\n(.fu%2u))*.13m)
129. ds #V .6m
130. ds #F 0
131. ds #[ \&
132. ds #] \&
133.\}
134. \" simple accents for nroff and troff
135.if n \{\
136. ds ' \&
137. ds ` \&
138. ds ^ \&
139. ds , \&
140. ds ~ ~
141. ds /
142.\}
143.if t \{\
144. ds ' \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\'\h"|\\n:u"
145. ds ` \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\`\h'|\\n:u'
146. ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'^\h'|\\n:u'
147. ds , \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10)',\h'|\\n:u'
148. ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu-\*(#H-.1m)'~\h'|\\n:u'
149. ds / \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\z\(sl\h'|\\n:u'
150.\}
151. \" troff and (daisy-wheel) nroff accents
152.ds : \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H+.1m+\*(#F)'\v'-\*(#V'\z.\h'.2m+\*(#F'.\h'|\\n:u'\v'\*(#V'
153.ds 8 \h'\*(#H'\(*b\h'-\*(#H'
154.ds o \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu+\w'\(de'u-\*(#H)/2u'\v'-.3n'\*(#[\z\(de\v'.3n'\h'|\\n:u'\*(#]
155.ds d- \h'\*(#H'\(pd\h'-\w'~'u'\v'-.25m'\f2\(hy\fP\v'.25m'\h'-\*(#H'
156.ds D- D\\k:\h'-\w'D'u'\v'-.11m'\z\(hy\v'.11m'\h'|\\n:u'
157.ds th \*(#[\v'.3m'\s+1I\s-1\v'-.3m'\h'-(\w'I'u*2/3)'\s-1o\s+1\*(#]
158.ds Th \*(#[\s+2I\s-2\h'-\w'I'u*3/5'\v'-.3m'o\v'.3m'\*(#]
159.ds ae a\h'-(\w'a'u*4/10)'e
160.ds Ae A\h'-(\w'A'u*4/10)'E
161. \" corrections for vroff
162.if v .ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H)'\s-2\u~\d\s+2\h'|\\n:u'
163.if v .ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'\v'-.4m'^\v'.4m'\h'|\\n:u'
164. \" for low resolution devices (crt and lpr)
165.if \n(.H>23 .if \n(.V>19 \
166\{\
167. ds : e
168. ds 8 ss
169. ds o a
170. ds d- d\h'-1'\(ga
171. ds D- D\h'-1'\(hy
172. ds th \o'bp'
173. ds Th \o'LP'
174. ds ae ae
175. ds Ae AE
176.\}
177.rm #[ #] #H #V #F C
178----END OF PREAMBLE----
179#`# for cperl-mode
180
181# This table is taken nearly verbatim from Tom Christiansen's pod2man. It
182# assumes that the standard preamble has already been printed, since that's
183# what defines all of the accent marks. Note that some of these are quoted
184# with double quotes since they contain embedded single quotes, so use \\
185# uniformly for backslash for readability.
186%ESCAPES = (
187 'amp' => '&', # ampersand
188 'apos' => "'", # apostrophe
189 'lt' => '<', # left chevron, less-than
190 'gt' => '>', # right chevron, greater-than
191 'quot' => '"', # double quote
192 'sol' => '/', # solidus (forward slash)
193 'verbar' => '|', # vertical bar
194
195 'Aacute' => "A\\*'", # capital A, acute accent
196 'aacute' => "a\\*'", # small a, acute accent
197 'Acirc' => 'A\\*^', # capital A, circumflex accent
198 'acirc' => 'a\\*^', # small a, circumflex accent
199 'AElig' => '\*(AE', # capital AE diphthong (ligature)
200 'aelig' => '\*(ae', # small ae diphthong (ligature)
201 'Agrave' => "A\\*`", # capital A, grave accent
202 'agrave' => "A\\*`", # small a, grave accent
203 'Aring' => 'A\\*o', # capital A, ring
204 'aring' => 'a\\*o', # small a, ring
205 'Atilde' => 'A\\*~', # capital A, tilde
206 'atilde' => 'a\\*~', # small a, tilde
207 'Auml' => 'A\\*:', # capital A, dieresis or umlaut mark
208 'auml' => 'a\\*:', # small a, dieresis or umlaut mark
209 'Ccedil' => 'C\\*,', # capital C, cedilla
210 'ccedil' => 'c\\*,', # small c, cedilla
211 'Eacute' => "E\\*'", # capital E, acute accent
212 'eacute' => "e\\*'", # small e, acute accent
213 'Ecirc' => 'E\\*^', # capital E, circumflex accent
214 'ecirc' => 'e\\*^', # small e, circumflex accent
215 'Egrave' => 'E\\*`', # capital E, grave accent
216 'egrave' => 'e\\*`', # small e, grave accent
217 'ETH' => '\\*(D-', # capital Eth, Icelandic
218 'eth' => '\\*(d-', # small eth, Icelandic
219 'Euml' => 'E\\*:', # capital E, dieresis or umlaut mark
220 'euml' => 'e\\*:', # small e, dieresis or umlaut mark
221 'Iacute' => "I\\*'", # capital I, acute accent
222 'iacute' => "i\\*'", # small i, acute accent
223 'Icirc' => 'I\\*^', # capital I, circumflex accent
224 'icirc' => 'i\\*^', # small i, circumflex accent
225 'Igrave' => 'I\\*`', # capital I, grave accent
226 'igrave' => 'i\\*`', # small i, grave accent
227 'Iuml' => 'I\\*:', # capital I, dieresis or umlaut mark
228 'iuml' => 'i\\*:', # small i, dieresis or umlaut mark
229 'Ntilde' => 'N\*~', # capital N, tilde
230 'ntilde' => 'n\*~', # small n, tilde
231 'Oacute' => "O\\*'", # capital O, acute accent
232 'oacute' => "o\\*'", # small o, acute accent
233 'Ocirc' => 'O\\*^', # capital O, circumflex accent
234 'ocirc' => 'o\\*^', # small o, circumflex accent
235 'Ograve' => 'O\\*`', # capital O, grave accent
236 'ograve' => 'o\\*`', # small o, grave accent
237 'Oslash' => 'O\\*/', # capital O, slash
238 'oslash' => 'o\\*/', # small o, slash
239 'Otilde' => 'O\\*~', # capital O, tilde
240 'otilde' => 'o\\*~', # small o, tilde
241 'Ouml' => 'O\\*:', # capital O, dieresis or umlaut mark
242 'ouml' => 'o\\*:', # small o, dieresis or umlaut mark
243 'szlig' => '\*8', # small sharp s, German (sz ligature)
244 'THORN' => '\\*(Th', # capital THORN, Icelandic
245 'thorn' => '\\*(th', # small thorn, Icelandic
246 'Uacute' => "U\\*'", # capital U, acute accent
247 'uacute' => "u\\*'", # small u, acute accent
248 'Ucirc' => 'U\\*^', # capital U, circumflex accent
249 'ucirc' => 'u\\*^', # small u, circumflex accent
250 'Ugrave' => 'U\\*`', # capital U, grave accent
251 'ugrave' => 'u\\*`', # small u, grave accent
252 'Uuml' => 'U\\*:', # capital U, dieresis or umlaut mark
253 'uuml' => 'u\\*:', # small u, dieresis or umlaut mark
254 'Yacute' => "Y\\*'", # capital Y, acute accent
255 'yacute' => "y\\*'", # small y, acute accent
256 'yuml' => 'y\\*:', # small y, dieresis or umlaut mark
257
258 'nbsp' => '\\ ', # non-breaking space
259 'shy' => '', # soft (discretionary) hyphen
260);
261
262
263##############################################################################
264# Static helper functions
265##############################################################################
266
267# Protect leading quotes and periods against interpretation as commands. Also
268# protect anything starting with a backslash, since it could expand or hide
269# something that *roff would interpret as a command. This is overkill, but
270# it's much simpler than trying to parse *roff here.
271sub protect {
272 local $_ = shift;
273 s/^([.\'\\])/\\&$1/mg;
274 $_;
275}
276
277# Translate a font string into an escape.
278sub toescape { (length ($_[0]) > 1 ? '\f(' : '\f') . $_[0] }
279
280
281##############################################################################
282# Initialization
283##############################################################################
284
285# Initialize the object. Here, we also process any additional options passed
286# to the constructor or set up defaults if none were given. center is the
287# centered title, release is the version number, and date is the date for the
288# documentation. Note that we can't know what file name we're processing due
289# to the architecture of Pod::Parser, so that *has* to either be passed to the
290# constructor or set separately with Pod::Man::name().
291sub initialize {
292 my $self = shift;
293
294 # Figure out the fixed-width font. If user-supplied, make sure that they
295 # are the right length.
296 for (qw/fixed fixedbold fixeditalic fixedbolditalic/) {
297 if (defined $$self{$_}) {
298 if (length ($$self{$_}) < 1 || length ($$self{$_}) > 2) {
299 croak qq(roff font should be 1 or 2 chars,)
300 . qq( not "$$self{$_}");
301 }
302 } else {
303 $$self{$_} = '';
304 }
305 }
306
307 # Set the default fonts. We can't be sure what fixed bold-italic is going
308 # to be called, so default to just bold.
309 $$self{fixed} ||= 'CW';
310 $$self{fixedbold} ||= 'CB';
311 $$self{fixeditalic} ||= 'CI';
312 $$self{fixedbolditalic} ||= 'CB';
313
314 # Set up a table of font escapes. First number is fixed-width, second is
315 # bold, third is italic.
316 $$self{FONTS} = { '000' => '\fR', '001' => '\fI',
317 '010' => '\fB', '011' => '\f(BI',
318 '100' => toescape ($$self{fixed}),
319 '101' => toescape ($$self{fixeditalic}),
320 '110' => toescape ($$self{fixedbold}),
321 '111' => toescape ($$self{fixedbolditalic})};
322
323 # Extra stuff for page titles.
324 $$self{center} = 'User Contributed Perl Documentation'
325 unless defined $$self{center};
326 $$self{indent} = 4 unless defined $$self{indent};
327
328 # We used to try first to get the version number from a local binary, but
329 # we shouldn't need that any more. Get the version from the running Perl.
330 # Work a little magic to handle subversions correctly under both the
331 # pre-5.6 and the post-5.6 version numbering schemes.
332 if (!defined $$self{release}) {
333 my @version = ($] =~ /^(\d+)\.(\d{3})(\d{0,3})$/);
334 $version[2] ||= 0;
335 $version[2] *= 10 ** (3 - length $version[2]);
336 for (@version) { $_ += 0 }
337 $$self{release} = 'perl v' . join ('.', @version);
338 }
339
340 # Double quotes in things that will be quoted.
341 for (qw/center date release/) {
342 $$self{$_} =~ s/\"/\"\"/g if $$self{$_};
343 }
344
345 # Figure out what quotes we'll be using for C<> text.
346 $$self{quotes} ||= '"';
347 if ($$self{quotes} eq 'none') {
348 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
349 } elsif (length ($$self{quotes}) == 1) {
350 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{quotes};
351 } elsif ($$self{quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
352 || $$self{quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
353 $$self{LQUOTE} = $1;
354 $$self{RQUOTE} = $2;
355 } else {
356 croak qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{quotes}");
357 }
358
359 # Double the first quote; note that this should not be s///g as two double
360 # quotes is represented in *roff as three double quotes, not four. Weird,
361 # I know.
362 $$self{LQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
363 $$self{RQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
364
365 $self->SUPER::initialize;
366}
367
368# For each document we process, output the preamble first.
369sub begin_pod {
370 my $self = shift;
371
372 # Try to figure out the name and section from the file name.
373 my $section = $$self{section} || 1;
374 my $name = $$self{name};
375 if (!defined $name) {
376 $name = $self->input_file;
377 $section = 3 if (!$$self{section} && $name =~ /\.pm\z/i);
378 $name =~ s/\.p(od|[lm])\z//i;
379 if ($section !~ /^3/) {
380 require File::Basename;
381 $name = uc File::Basename::basename ($name);
382 } else {
383 # Assume that we're dealing with a module. We want to figure out
384 # the full module name from the path to the file, but we don't
385 # want to include too much of the path into the module name. Lose
386 # everything up to the first of:
387 #
388 # */lib/*perl*/ standard or site_perl module
389 # */*perl*/lib/ from -Dprefix=/opt/perl
390 # */*perl*/ random module hierarchy
391 #
392 # which works. Also strip off a leading site or site_perl
393 # component, any OS-specific component, and any version number
394 # component, and strip off an initial component of "lib" or
395 # "blib/lib" since that's what ExtUtils::MakeMaker creates.
396 # splitdir requires at least File::Spec 0.8.
397 require File::Spec;
398 my ($volume, $dirs, $file) = File::Spec->splitpath ($name);
399 my @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir ($dirs);
400 my $cut = 0;
401 my $i;
402 for ($i = 0; $i < scalar @dirs; $i++) {
403 if ($dirs[$i] eq 'lib' && $dirs[$i + 1] =~ /perl/) {
404 $cut = $i + 2;
405 last;
406 } elsif ($dirs[$i] =~ /perl/) {
407 $cut = $i + 1;
408 $cut++ if $dirs[$i + 1] eq 'lib';
409 last;
410 }
411 }
412 if ($cut > 0) {
413 splice (@dirs, 0, $cut);
414 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^site(_perl)?$/);
415 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^[\d.]+$/);
416 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^(.*-$^O|$^O-.*|$^O)$/);
417 }
418 shift @dirs if $dirs[0] eq 'lib';
419 splice (@dirs, 0, 2) if ($dirs[0] eq 'blib' && $dirs[1] eq 'lib');
420
421 # Remove empty directories when building the module name; they
422 # occur too easily on Unix by doubling slashes.
423 $name = join ('::', (grep { $_ ? $_ : () } @dirs), $file);
424 }
425 }
426
427 # If $name contains spaces, quote it; this mostly comes up in the case of
428 # input from stdin.
429 $name = '"' . $name . '"' if ($name =~ /\s/);
430
431 # Modification date header. Try to use the modification time of our
432 # input.
433 if (!defined $$self{date}) {
434 my $time = (stat $self->input_file)[9] || time;
435 my ($day, $month, $year) = (localtime $time)[3,4,5];
436 $month++;
437 $year += 1900;
438 $$self{date} = sprintf ('%4d-%02d-%02d', $year, $month, $day);
439 }
440
441 # Now, print out the preamble and the title. The meaning of the arguments
442 # to .TH unfortunately vary by system; some systems consider the fourth
443 # argument to be a "source" and others use it as a version number.
444 # Generally it's just presented as the left-side footer, though, so it
445 # doesn't matter too much if a particular system gives it another
446 # interpretation.
447 #
448 # The order of date and release used to be reversed in older versions of
449 # this module, but this order is correct for both Solaris and Linux.
450 local $_ = $PREAMBLE;
451 s/\@CFONT\@/$$self{fixed}/;
452 s/\@LQUOTE\@/$$self{LQUOTE}/;
453 s/\@RQUOTE\@/$$self{RQUOTE}/;
454 chomp $_;
455 my $pversion = $Pod::Parser::VERSION;
456 print { $self->output_handle } <<"----END OF HEADER----";
457.\\" Automatically generated by Pod::Man v$VERSION, Pod::Parser v$pversion
458.\\"
459.\\" Standard preamble:
460.\\" ========================================================================
461$_
462.\\" ========================================================================
463.\\"
464.IX Title "$name $section"
465.TH $name $section "$$self{date}" "$$self{release}" "$$self{center}"
466----END OF HEADER----
467
468 # Initialize a few per-file variables.
469 $$self{INDENT} = 0; # Current indentation level.
470 $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
471 $$self{INDEX} = []; # Index keys waiting to be printed.
472 $$self{IN_NAME} = 0; # Whether processing the NAME section.
473 $$self{ITEMS} = 0; # The number of consecutive =items.
474 $$self{ITEMTYPES} = []; # Stack of =item types, one per list.
475 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0; # Whether there is a shift waiting.
476 $$self{SHIFTS} = []; # Stack of .RS shifts.
477}
478
479
480##############################################################################
481# Core overrides
482##############################################################################
483
484# Called for each command paragraph. Gets the command, the associated
485# paragraph, the line number, and a Pod::Paragraph object. Just dispatches
486# the command to a method named the same as the command. =cut is handled
487# internally by Pod::Parser.
488sub command {
489 my $self = shift;
490 my $command = shift;
491 return if $command eq 'pod';
492 return if ($$self{EXCLUDE} && $command ne 'end');
493 if ($self->can ('cmd_' . $command)) {
494 $command = 'cmd_' . $command;
495 $self->$command (@_);
496 } else {
497 my ($text, $line, $paragraph) = @_;
498 my $file;
499 ($file, $line) = $paragraph->file_line;
500 $text =~ s/\n+\z//;
501 $text = " $text" if ($text =~ /^\S/);
502 warn qq($file:$line: Unknown command paragraph "=$command$text"\n);
503 return;
504 }
505}
506
507# Called for a verbatim paragraph. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and a
508# Pod::Paragraph object. Rofficate backslashes, untabify, put a zero-width
509# character at the beginning of each line to protect against commands, and
510# wrap in .Vb/.Ve.
511sub verbatim {
512 my $self = shift;
513 return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
514 local $_ = shift;
515 return if /^\s+$/;
516 s/\s+$/\n/;
517 my $lines = tr/\n/\n/;
518 1 while s/^(.*?)(\t+)/$1 . ' ' x (length ($2) * 8 - length ($1) % 8)/me;
519 s/\\/\\e/g;
520 s/^(\s*\S)/'\&' . $1/gme;
521 $self->makespace;
522 $self->output (".Vb $lines\n$_.Ve\n");
523 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
524}
525
526# Called for a regular text block. Gets the paragraph, the line number, and a
527# Pod::Paragraph object. Perform interpolation and output the results.
528sub textblock {
529 my $self = shift;
530 return if $$self{EXCLUDE};
531 $self->output ($_[0]), return if $$self{VERBATIM};
532
533 # Parse the tree. collapse knows about references to scalars as well as
534 # scalars and does the right thing with them. Tidy up any trailing
535 # whitespace.
536 my $text = shift;
537 $text = $self->parse ($text, @_);
538 $text =~ s/\n\s*$/\n/;
539
540 # Output the paragraph. We also have to handle =over without =item. If
541 # there's an =over without =item, SHIFTWAIT will be set, and we need to
542 # handle creation of the indent here. Add the shift to SHIFTS so that it
543 # will be cleaned up on =back.
544 $self->makespace;
545 if ($$self{SHIFTWAIT}) {
546 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
547 push (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
548 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
549 }
550 $self->output (protect $self->textmapfonts ($text));
551 $self->outindex;
552 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
553}
554
555# Called for a formatting code. Takes a Pod::InteriorSequence object and
556# returns a reference to a scalar. This scalar is the final formatted text.
557# It's returned as a reference to an array so that other formatting codes
558# above us know that the text has already been processed.
559sub sequence {
560 my ($self, $seq) = @_;
561 my $command = $seq->cmd_name;
562
563 # We have to defer processing of the inside of an L<> formatting code. If
564 # this code is nested inside an L<> code, return the literal raw text of
565 # it.
566 my $parent = $seq->nested;
567 while (defined $parent) {
568 return $seq->raw_text if ($parent->cmd_name eq 'L');
569 $parent = $parent->nested;
570 }
571
572 # Zero-width characters.
573 return [ '\&' ] if ($command eq 'Z');
574
575 # C<>, L<>, X<>, and E<> don't apply guesswork to their contents. C<>
576 # needs some additional special handling.
577 my $literal = ($command =~ /^[CELX]$/);
578 local $_ = $self->collapse ($seq->parse_tree, $literal, $command eq 'C');
579
580 # Handle E<> escapes. Numeric escapes that match one of the supported ISO
581 # 8859-1 characters don't work at present.
582 if ($command eq 'E') {
583 if (/^\d+$/) {
584 return [ chr ($_) ];
585 } elsif (exists $ESCAPES{$_}) {
586 return [ $ESCAPES{$_} ];
587 } else {
588 my ($file, $line) = $seq->file_line;
589 warn "$file:$line: Unknown escape E<$_>\n";
590 return [ "E<$_>" ];
591 }
592 }
593
594 # For all the other codes, empty content produces no output.
595 return '' if $_ eq '';
596
597 # Handle simple formatting codes.
598 if ($command eq 'B') {
599 return [ '\f(BS' . $_ . '\f(BE' ];
600 } elsif ($command eq 'F' || $command eq 'I') {
601 return [ '\f(IS' . $_ . '\f(IE' ];
602 } elsif ($command eq 'C') {
603 return [ $self->quote_literal ($_) ];
604 }
605
606 # Handle links.
607 if ($command eq 'L') {
608 my ($text, $type) = (parselink ($_))[1,4];
609 return '' unless $text;
610 my ($file, $line) = $seq->file_line;
611 $text = $self->parse ($text, $line);
612 $text = '<' . $text . '>' if $type eq 'url';
613 return [ $text ];
614 }
615
616 # Whitespace protection replaces whitespace with "\ ".
617 if ($command eq 'S') {
618 s/\s+/\\ /g;
619 return [ $_ ];
620 }
621
622 # Add an index entry to the list of ones waiting to be output.
623 if ($command eq 'X') {
624 push (@{ $$self{INDEX} }, $_);
625 return '';
626 }
627
628 # Anything else is unknown.
629 my ($file, $line) = $seq->file_line;
630 warn "$file:$line: Unknown formatting code $command<$_>\n";
631}
632
633
634##############################################################################
635# Command paragraphs
636##############################################################################
637
638# All command paragraphs take the paragraph and the line number.
639
640# First level heading. We can't output .IX in the NAME section due to a bug
641# in some versions of catman, so don't output a .IX for that section. .SH
642# already uses small caps, so remove \s1 and \s-1. Maintain IN_NAME as
643# appropriate, but don't leave it set while calling parse() so as to not
644# override guesswork on section headings after NAME.
645sub cmd_head1 {
646 my $self = shift;
647 $$self{IN_NAME} = 0;
648 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
649 s/\s+$//;
650 s/\\s-?\d//g;
651 s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
652 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
653 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
654 $self->output (".PD\n");
655 }
656 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.SH', $self->mapfonts ($_)));
657 $self->outindex (($_ eq 'NAME') ? () : ('Header', $_));
658 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
659 $$self{IN_NAME} = ($_ eq 'NAME');
660}
661
662# Second level heading.
663sub cmd_head2 {
664 my $self = shift;
665 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
666 s/\s+$//;
667 s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
668 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
669 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
670 $self->output (".PD\n");
671 }
672 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.Sh', $self->mapfonts ($_)));
673 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $_);
674 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
675}
676
677# Third level heading.
678sub cmd_head3 {
679 my $self = shift;
680 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
681 s/\s+$//;
682 s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
683 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
684 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
685 $self->output (".PD\n");
686 }
687 $self->makespace;
688 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ('\f(IS' . $_ . '\f(IE') . "\n");
689 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $_);
690 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
691}
692
693# Fourth level heading.
694sub cmd_head4 {
695 my $self = shift;
696 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
697 s/\s+$//;
698 s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
699 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
700 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
701 $self->output (".PD\n");
702 }
703 $self->makespace;
704 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ($_) . "\n");
705 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $_);
706 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
707}
708
709# Start a list. For indents after the first, wrap the outside indent in .RS
710# so that hanging paragraph tags will be correct.
711sub cmd_over {
712 my $self = shift;
713 local $_ = shift;
714 unless (/^[-+]?\d+\s+$/) { $_ = $$self{indent} }
715 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } < @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
716 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
717 push (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
718 }
719 push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
720 push (@{ $$self{ITEMTYPES} }, 'unknown');
721 $$self{INDENT} = ($_ + 0);
722 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 1;
723}
724
725# End a list. If we've closed an embedded indent, we've mangled the hanging
726# paragraph indent, so temporarily replace it with .RS and set WEIRDINDENT.
727# We'll close that .RS at the next =back or =item.
728sub cmd_back {
729 my $self = shift;
730 $$self{INDENT} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
731 if (defined $$self{INDENT}) {
732 pop @{ $$self{ITEMTYPES} };
733 } else {
734 my ($file, $line, $paragraph) = @_;
735 ($file, $line) = $paragraph->file_line;
736 warn "$file:$line: Unmatched =back\n";
737 $$self{INDENT} = 0;
738 }
739 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } > @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
740 $self->output (".RE\n");
741 pop @{ $$self{SHIFTS} };
742 }
743 if (@{ $$self{INDENTS} } > 0) {
744 $self->output (".RE\n");
745 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
746 }
747 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
748 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
749}
750
751# An individual list item. Emit an index entry for anything that's
752# interesting, but don't emit index entries for things like bullets and
753# numbers. rofficate bullets too while we're at it (so for nice output, use *
754# for your lists rather than o or . or - or some other thing). Newlines in an
755# item title are turned into spaces since *roff can't handle them embedded.
756sub cmd_item {
757 my $self = shift;
758 local $_ = $self->parse (@_);
759 s/\s+$//;
760 s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
761 my $index;
762 if (/\w/ && !/^\w[.\)]\s*$/) {
763 $index = $_;
764 $index =~ s/^\s*[-*+o.]?(?:\s+|\Z)//;
765 }
766 $_ = '*' unless length ($_) > 0;
767 my $type = $$self{ITEMTYPES}[0];
768 unless (defined $type) {
769 my ($file, $line, $paragraph) = @_;
770 ($file, $line) = $paragraph->file_line;
771 $type = 'unknown';
772 }
773 if ($type eq 'unknown') {
774 $type = /^\*\s*\Z/ ? 'bullet' : 'text';
775 $$self{ITEMTYPES}[0] = $type if $$self{ITEMTYPES}[0];
776 }
777 s/^\*\s*\Z/\\\(bu/ if $type eq 'bullet';
778 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } == @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
779 $self->output (".RE\n");
780 pop @{ $$self{SHIFTS} };
781 }
782 $_ = $self->textmapfonts ($_);
783 $self->output (".PD 0\n") if ($$self{ITEMS} == 1);
784 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.IP', $_, $$self{INDENT}));
785 $self->outindex ($index ? ('Item', $index) : ());
786 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
787 $$self{ITEMS}++;
788 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
789}
790
791# Begin a block for a particular translator. Setting VERBATIM triggers
792# special handling in textblock().
793sub cmd_begin {
794 my $self = shift;
795 local $_ = shift;
796 my ($kind) = /^(\S+)/ or return;
797 if ($kind eq 'man' || $kind eq 'roff') {
798 $$self{VERBATIM} = 1;
799 } else {
800 $$self{EXCLUDE} = 1;
801 }
802}
803
804# End a block for a particular translator. We assume that all =begin/=end
805# pairs are properly closed.
806sub cmd_end {
807 my $self = shift;
808 $$self{EXCLUDE} = 0;
809 $$self{VERBATIM} = 0;
810}
811
812# One paragraph for a particular translator. Ignore it unless it's intended
813# for man or roff, in which case we output it verbatim.
814sub cmd_for {
815 my $self = shift;
816 local $_ = shift;
817 return unless s/^(?:man|roff)\b[ \t]*\n?//;
818 $self->output ($_);
819}
820
821
822##############################################################################
823# Escaping and fontification
824##############################################################################
825
826# At this point, we'll have embedded font codes of the form \f(<font>[SE]
827# where <font> is one of B, I, or F. Turn those into the right font start or
828# end codes. The old pod2man didn't get B<someI<thing> else> right; after I<>
829# it switched back to normal text rather than bold. We take care of this by
830# using variables as a combined pointer to our current font sequence, and set
831# each to the number of current nestings of start tags for that font. Use
832# them as a vector to look up what font sequence to use.
833#
834# \fP changes to the previous font, but only one previous font is kept. We
835# don't know what the outside level font is; normally it's R, but if we're
836# inside a heading it could be something else. So arrange things so that the
837# outside font is always the "previous" font and end with \fP instead of \fR.
838# Idea from Zack Weinberg.
839sub mapfonts {
840 my $self = shift;
841 local $_ = shift;
842
843 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
844 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
845 my $last = '\fR';
846 s { \\f\((.)(.) } {
847 my $sequence = '';
848 my $f;
849 if ($last ne '\fR') { $sequence = '\fP' }
850 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
851 $f = $$self{FONTS}{($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1)};
852 if ($f eq $last) {
853 '';
854 } else {
855 if ($f ne '\fR') { $sequence .= $f }
856 $last = $f;
857 $sequence;
858 }
859 }gxe;
860 $_;
861}
862
863# Unfortunately, there is a bug in Solaris 2.6 nroff (not present in GNU
864# groff) where the sequence \fB\fP\f(CW\fP leaves the font set to B rather
865# than R, presumably because \f(CW doesn't actually do a font change. To work
866# around this, use a separate textmapfonts for text blocks where the default
867# font is always R and only use the smart mapfonts for headings.
868sub textmapfonts {
869 my $self = shift;
870 local $_ = shift;
871
872 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
873 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
874 s { \\f\((.)(.) } {
875 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
876 $$self{FONTS}{($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1)};
877 }gxe;
878 $_;
879}
880
881
882##############################################################################
883# *roff-specific parsing and magic
884##############################################################################
885
886# Called instead of parse_text, calls parse_text with the right flags.
887sub parse {
888 my $self = shift;
889 $self->parse_text ({ -expand_seq => 'sequence',
890 -expand_ptree => 'collapse' }, @_);
891}
892
893# Takes a parse tree, a flag saying whether or not to treat it as literal text
894# (not call guesswork on it), and a flag saying whether or not to clean some
895# things up for *roff, and returns the concatenation of all of the text
896# strings in that parse tree. If the literal flag isn't true, guesswork()
897# will be called on all plain scalars in the parse tree. Otherwise, if
898# collapse is being called on a C<> code, $cleanup should be set to true and
899# some additional cleanup will be done. Assumes that everything in the parse
900# tree is either a scalar or a reference to a scalar.
901sub collapse {
902 my ($self, $ptree, $literal, $cleanup) = @_;
903
904 # If we're processing the NAME section, don't do normal guesswork. This
905 # is because NAME lines are often extracted by utilities like catman that
906 # require plain text and don't understand *roff markup. We still need to
907 # escape backslashes and hyphens for *roff (and catman expects \- instead
908 # of -).
909 if ($$self{IN_NAME}) {
910 $literal = 1;
911 $cleanup = 1;
912 }
913
914 # Do the collapse of the parse tree as described above.
915 return join ('', map {
916 if (ref $_) {
917 join ('', @$_);
918 } elsif ($literal) {
919 if ($cleanup) {
920 s/\\/\\e/g;
921 s/-/\\-/g;
922 s/__/_\\|_/g;
923 }
924 $_;
925 } else {
926 $self->guesswork ($_);
927 }
928 } $ptree->children);
929}
930
931# Takes a text block to perform guesswork on; this is guaranteed not to
932# contain any formatting codes. Returns the text block with remapping done.
933sub guesswork {
934 my $self = shift;
935 local $_ = shift;
936
937 # rofficate backslashes.
938 s/\\/\\e/g;
939
940 # Ensure double underbars have a tiny space between them.
941 s/__/_\\|_/g;
942
943 # Leave hyphens only if they're part of regular words and there is only
944 # one dash at a time. Leave a dash after the first character as a regular
945 # non-breaking dash, but don't let it mark the rest of the word invalid
946 # for hyphenation.
947 s/-/\\-/g;
948 s{
949 ( (?:\G|^|\s) [a-zA-Z] ) ( \\- )?
950 ( (?: [a-zA-Z]+ \\-)+ )
951 ( [a-zA-Z]+ ) (?=\s|\Z)
952 \b
953 } {
954 my ($prefix, $hyphen, $main, $suffix) = ($1, $2, $3, $4);
955 $hyphen ||= '';
956 $main =~ s/\\-/-/g;
957 $prefix . $hyphen . $main . $suffix;
958 }egx;
959
960 # Translate -- into a real em dash if it's used like one.
961 s{ (\s) \\-\\- (\s) } { $1 . '\*(--' . $2 }egx;
962 s{ (\b[a-zA-Z]+) \\-\\- (\s|\Z|[a-zA-Z]+\b) } { $1 . '\*(--' . $2 }egx;
963
964 # Make all caps a little smaller. Be careful here, since we don't want to
965 # make @ARGV into small caps, nor do we want to fix the MIME in
966 # MIME-Version, since it looks weird with the full-height V.
967 s{
968 ( ^ | [\s\(\"\'\`\[\{<>] )
969 ( [A-Z] [A-Z] (?: [/A-Z+:\d_\$&] | \\- )* )
970 (?= [\s>\}\]\(\)\'\".?!,;] | \\*\(-- | $ )
971 } { $1 . '\s-1' . $2 . '\s0' }egx;
972
973 # Italize functions in the form func().
974 s{
975 ( \b | \\s-1 )
976 (
977 [A-Za-z_] ([:\w]|\\s-?[01])+ \(\)
978 )
979 } { $1 . '\f(IS' . $2 . '\f(IE' }egx;
980
981 # func(n) is a reference to a manual page. Make it \fIfunc\fR\|(n).
982 s{
983 ( \b | \\s-1 )
984 ( [A-Za-z_] (?:[.:\w]|\\-|\\s-?[01])+ )
985 (
986 \( \d [a-z]* \)
987 )
988 } { $1 . '\f(IS' . $2 . '\f(IE\|' . $3 }egx;
989
990 # Convert simple Perl variable references to a fixed-width font.
991 s{
992 ( \s+ )
993 ( [\$\@%] [\w:]+ )
994 (?! \( )
995 } { $1 . '\f(FS' . $2 . '\f(FE'}egx;
996
997 # Fix up double quotes.
998 s{ \" ([^\"]+) \" } { '\*(L"' . $1 . '\*(R"' }egx;
999
1000 # Make C++ into \*(C+, which is a squinched version.
1001 s{ \b C\+\+ } {\\*\(C+}gx;
1002
1003 # All done.
1004 $_;
1005}
1006
1007# Handles C<> text, deciding whether to put \*C` around it or not. This is a
1008# whole bunch of messy heuristics to try to avoid overquoting, originally from
1009# Barrie Slaymaker. This largely duplicates similar code in Pod::Text.
1010sub quote_literal {
1011 my $self = shift;
1012 local $_ = shift;
1013
1014 # A regex that matches the portion of a variable reference that's the
1015 # array or hash index, separated out just because we want to use it in
1016 # several places in the following regex.
1017 my $index = '(?: \[.*\] | \{.*\} )?';
1018
1019 # Check for things that we don't want to quote, and if we find any of
1020 # them, return the string with just a font change and no quoting.
1021 m{
1022 ^\s*
1023 (?:
1024 ( [\'\`\"] ) .* \1 # already quoted
1025 | \` .* \' # `quoted'
1026 | \$+ [\#^]? \S $index # special ($^Foo, $")
1027 | [\$\@%&*]+ \#? [:\'\w]+ $index # plain var or func
1028 | [\$\@%&*]* [:\'\w]+ (?: -> )? \(\s*[^\s,]\s*\) # 0/1-arg func call
1029 | [+-]? ( \d[\d.]* | \.\d+ ) (?: [eE][+-]?\d+ )? # a number
1030 | 0x [a-fA-F\d]+ # a hex constant
1031 )
1032 \s*\z
1033 }xo && return '\f(FS' . $_ . '\f(FE';
1034
1035 # If we didn't return, go ahead and quote the text.
1036 return '\f(FS\*(C`' . $_ . "\\*(C'\\f(FE";
1037}
1038
1039
1040##############################################################################
1041# Output formatting
1042##############################################################################
1043
1044# Make vertical whitespace.
1045sub makespace {
1046 my $self = shift;
1047 $self->output (".PD\n") if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1);
1048 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
1049 $self->output ($$self{INDENT} > 0 ? ".Sp\n" : ".PP\n")
1050 if $$self{NEEDSPACE};
1051}
1052
1053# Output any pending index entries, and optionally an index entry given as an
1054# argument. Support multiple index entries in X<> separated by slashes, and
1055# strip special escapes from index entries.
1056sub outindex {
1057 my ($self, $section, $index) = @_;
1058 my @entries = map { split m%\s*/\s*% } @{ $$self{INDEX} };
1059 return unless ($section || @entries);
1060 $$self{INDEX} = [];
1061 my @output;
1062 if (@entries) {
1063 push (@output, [ 'Xref', join (' ', @entries) ]);
1064 }
1065 if ($section) {
1066 $index =~ s/\\-/-/g;
1067 $index =~ s/\\(?:s-?\d|.\(..|.)//g;
1068 push (@output, [ $section, $index ]);
1069 }
1070 for (@output) {
1071 my ($type, $entry) = @$_;
1072 $entry =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
1073 $self->output (".IX $type " . '"' . $entry . '"' . "\n");
1074 }
1075}
1076
1077# Output text to the output device.
1078sub output { print { $_[0]->output_handle } $_[1] }
1079
1080# Given a command and a single argument that may or may not contain double
1081# quotes, handle double-quote formatting for it. If there are no double
1082# quotes, just return the command followed by the argument in double quotes.
1083# If there are double quotes, use an if statement to test for nroff, and for
1084# nroff output the command followed by the argument in double quotes with
1085# embedded double quotes doubled. For other formatters, remap paired double
1086# quotes to LQUOTE and RQUOTE.
1087sub switchquotes {
1088 my $self = shift;
1089 my $command = shift;
1090 local $_ = shift;
1091 my $extra = shift;
1092 s/\\\*\([LR]\"/\"/g;
1093
1094 # We also have to deal with \*C` and \*C', which are used to add the
1095 # quotes around C<> text, since they may expand to " and if they do this
1096 # confuses the .SH macros and the like no end. Expand them ourselves.
1097 # Also separate troff from nroff if there are any fixed-width fonts in use
1098 # to work around problems with Solaris nroff.
1099 my $c_is_quote = ($$self{LQUOTE} =~ /\"/) || ($$self{RQUOTE} =~ /\"/);
1100 my $fixedpat = join ('|', @{ $$self{FONTS} }{'100', '101', '110', '111'});
1101 $fixedpat =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
1102 $fixedpat =~ s/\(/\\\(/g;
1103 if (/\"/ || /$fixedpat/) {
1104 s/\"/\"\"/g;
1105 my $nroff = $_;
1106 my $troff = $_;
1107 $troff =~ s/\"\"([^\"]*)\"\"/\`\`$1\'\'/g;
1108 if ($c_is_quote && /\\\*\(C[\'\`]/) {
1109 $nroff =~ s/\\\*\(C\`/$$self{LQUOTE}/g;
1110 $nroff =~ s/\\\*\(C\'/$$self{RQUOTE}/g;
1111 $troff =~ s/\\\*\(C[\'\`]//g;
1112 }
1113 $nroff = qq("$nroff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
1114 $troff = qq("$troff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
1115
1116 # Work around the Solaris nroff bug where \f(CW\fP leaves the font set
1117 # to Roman rather than the actual previous font when used in headings.
1118 # troff output may still be broken, but at least we can fix nroff by
1119 # just switching the font changes to the non-fixed versions.
1120 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{100}\E(.*)\\f[PR]/$1/g;
1121 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{101}\E(.*)\\f([PR])/\\fI$1\\f$2/g;
1122 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{110}\E(.*)\\f([PR])/\\fB$1\\f$2/g;
1123 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{111}\E(.*)\\f([PR])/\\f\(BI$1\\f$2/g;
1124
1125 # Now finally output the command. Only bother with .ie if the nroff
1126 # and troff output isn't the same.
1127 if ($nroff ne $troff) {
1128 return ".ie n $command $nroff\n.el $command $troff\n";
1129 } else {
1130 return "$command $nroff\n";
1131 }
1132 } else {
1133 $_ = qq("$_") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
1134 return "$command $_\n";
1135 }
1136}
1137
1138##############################################################################
1139# Module return value and documentation
1140##############################################################################
1141
11421;
1143__END__
1144
1145=head1 NAME
1146
1147Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
1148
1149=head1 SYNOPSIS
1150
1151 use Pod::Man;
1152 my $parser = Pod::Man->new (release => $VERSION, section => 8);
1153
1154 # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
1155 $parser->parse_from_filehandle;
1156
1157 # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.1.
1158 $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.1');
1159
1160=head1 DESCRIPTION
1161
1162Pod::Man is a module to convert documentation in the POD format (the
1163preferred language for documenting Perl) into *roff input using the man
1164macro set. The resulting *roff code is suitable for display on a terminal
1165using L<nroff(1)>, normally via L<man(1)>, or printing using L<troff(1)>.
1166It is conventionally invoked using the driver script B<pod2man>, but it can
1167also be used directly.
1168
1169As a derived class from Pod::Parser, Pod::Man supports the same methods and
1170interfaces. See L<Pod::Parser> for all the details; briefly, one creates a
1171new parser with C<< Pod::Man->new() >> and then calls either
1172parse_from_filehandle() or parse_from_file().
1173
1174new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs that control the
1175behavior of the parser. See below for details.
1176
1177If no options are given, Pod::Man uses the name of the input file with any
1178trailing C<.pod>, C<.pm>, or C<.pl> stripped as the man page title, to
1179section 1 unless the file ended in C<.pm> in which case it defaults to
1180section 3, to a centered title of "User Contributed Perl Documentation", to
1181a centered footer of the Perl version it is run with, and to a left-hand
1182footer of the modification date of its input (or the current date if given
1183STDIN for input).
1184
1185Pod::Man assumes that your *roff formatters have a fixed-width font named
1186CW. If yours is called something else (like CR), use the C<fixed> option to
1187specify it. This generally only matters for troff output for printing.
1188Similarly, you can set the fonts used for bold, italic, and bold italic
1189fixed-width output.
1190
1191Besides the obvious pod conversions, Pod::Man also takes care of formatting
1192func(), func(3), and simple variable references like $foo or @bar so you
1193don't have to use code escapes for them; complex expressions like
1194C<$fred{'stuff'}> will still need to be escaped, though. It also translates
1195dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes, makes long dashes--like
1196this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired quotes," makes C++ look right,
1197puts a little space between double underbars, makes ALLCAPS a teeny bit
1198smaller in B<troff>, and escapes stuff that *roff treats as special so that
1199you don't have to.
1200
1201The recognized options to new() are as follows. All options take a single
1202argument.
1203
1204=over 4
1205
1206=item center
1207
1208Sets the centered page header to use instead of "User Contributed Perl
1209Documentation".
1210
1211=item date
1212
1213Sets the left-hand footer. By default, the modification date of the input
1214file will be used, or the current date if stat() can't find that file (the
1215case if the input is from STDIN), and the date will be formatted as
1216YYYY-MM-DD.
1217
1218=item fixed
1219
1220The fixed-width font to use for vertabim text and code. Defaults to CW.
1221Some systems may want CR instead. Only matters for B<troff> output.
1222
1223=item fixedbold
1224
1225Bold version of the fixed-width font. Defaults to CB. Only matters for
1226B<troff> output.
1227
1228=item fixeditalic
1229
1230Italic version of the fixed-width font (actually, something of a misnomer,
1231since most fixed-width fonts only have an oblique version, not an italic
1232version). Defaults to CI. Only matters for B<troff> output.
1233
1234=item fixedbolditalic
1235
1236Bold italic (probably actually oblique) version of the fixed-width font.
1237Pod::Man doesn't assume you have this, and defaults to CB. Some systems
1238(such as Solaris) have this font available as CX. Only matters for B<troff>
1239output.
1240
1241=item name
1242
1243Set the name of the manual page. Without this option, the manual name is
1244set to the uppercased base name of the file being converted unless the
1245manual section is 3, in which case the path is parsed to see if it is a Perl
1246module path. If it is, a path like C<.../lib/Pod/Man.pm> is converted into
1247a name like C<Pod::Man>. This option, if given, overrides any automatic
1248determination of the name.
1249
1250=item quotes
1251
1252Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
1253single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two
1254characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as
1255the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as
1256the left quote and the second two as the right quote.
1257
1258This may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote
1259marks are added around CE<lt>> text (but the font is still changed for troff
1260output).
1261
1262=item release
1263
1264Set the centered footer. By default, this is the version of Perl you run
1265Pod::Man under. Note that some system an macro sets assume that the
1266centered footer will be a modification date and will prepend something like
1267"Last modified: "; if this is the case, you may want to set C<release> to
1268the last modified date and C<date> to the version number.
1269
1270=item section
1271
1272Set the section for the C<.TH> macro. The standard section numbering
1273convention is to use 1 for user commands, 2 for system calls, 3 for
1274functions, 4 for devices, 5 for file formats, 6 for games, 7 for
1275miscellaneous information, and 8 for administrator commands. There is a lot
1276of variation here, however; some systems (like Solaris) use 4 for file
1277formats, 5 for miscellaneous information, and 7 for devices. Still others
1278use 1m instead of 8, or some mix of both. About the only section numbers
1279that are reliably consistent are 1, 2, and 3.
1280
1281By default, section 1 will be used unless the file ends in .pm in which case
1282section 3 will be selected.
1283
1284=back
1285
1286The standard Pod::Parser method parse_from_filehandle() takes up to two
1287arguments, the first being the file handle to read POD from and the second
1288being the file handle to write the formatted output to. The first defaults
1289to STDIN if not given, and the second defaults to STDOUT. The method
1290parse_from_file() is almost identical, except that its two arguments are the
1291input and output disk files instead. See L<Pod::Parser> for the specific
1292details.
1293
1294=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
1295
1296=over 4
1297
1298=item roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "%s"
1299
1300(F) You specified a *roff font (using C<fixed>, C<fixedbold>, etc.) that
1301wasn't either one or two characters. Pod::Man doesn't support *roff fonts
1302longer than two characters, although some *roff extensions do (the canonical
1303versions of B<nroff> and B<troff> don't either).
1304
1305=item Invalid link %s
1306
1307(W) The POD source contained a C<LE<lt>E<gt>> formatting code that
1308Pod::Man was unable to parse. You should never see this error message; it
1309probably indicates a bug in Pod::Man.
1310
1311=item Invalid quote specification "%s"
1312
1313(F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
1314invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
1315
1316=item %s:%d: Unknown command paragraph "%s".
1317
1318(W) The POD source contained a non-standard command paragraph (something of
1319the form C<=command args>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
1320
1321=item %s:%d: Unknown escape EE<lt>%sE<gt>
1322
1323(W) The POD source contained an C<EE<lt>E<gt>> escape that Pod::Man didn't
1324know about. C<EE<lt>%sE<gt>> was printed verbatim in the output.
1325
1326=item %s:%d: Unknown formatting code %s
1327
1328(W) The POD source contained a non-standard formatting code (something of
1329the form C<XE<lt>E<gt>>) that Pod::Man didn't know about. It was ignored.
1330
1331=item %s:%d: Unmatched =back
1332
1333(W) Pod::Man encountered a C<=back> command that didn't correspond to an
1334C<=over> command.
1335
1336=back
1337
1338=head1 BUGS
1339
1340Eight-bit input data isn't handled at all well at present. The correct
1341approach would be to map EE<lt>E<gt> escapes to the appropriate UTF-8
1342characters and then do a translation pass on the output according to the
1343user-specified output character set. Unfortunately, we can't send eight-bit
1344data directly to the output unless the user says this is okay, since some
1345vendor *roff implementations can't handle eight-bit data. If the *roff
1346implementation can, however, that's far superior to the current hacked
1347characters that only work under troff.
1348
1349There is currently no way to turn off the guesswork that tries to format
1350unmarked text appropriately, and sometimes it isn't wanted (particularly
1351when using POD to document something other than Perl).
1352
1353The NAME section should be recognized specially and index entries emitted
1354for everything in that section. This would have to be deferred until the
1355next section, since extraneous things in NAME tends to confuse various man
1356page processors.
1357
1358Pod::Man doesn't handle font names longer than two characters. Neither do
1359most B<troff> implementations, but GNU troff does as an extension. It would
1360be nice to support as an option for those who want to use it.
1361
1362The preamble added to each output file is rather verbose, and most of it is
1363only necessary in the presence of EE<lt>E<gt> escapes for non-ASCII
1364characters. It would ideally be nice if all of those definitions were only
1365output if needed, perhaps on the fly as the characters are used.
1366
1367Pod::Man is excessively slow.
1368
1369=head1 CAVEATS
1370
1371The handling of hyphens and em dashes is somewhat fragile, and one may get
1372the wrong one under some circumstances. This should only matter for
1373B<troff> output.
1374
1375When and whether to use small caps is somewhat tricky, and Pod::Man doesn't
1376necessarily get it right.
1377
1378=head1 SEE ALSO
1379
1380L<Pod::Parser>, L<perlpod(1)>, L<pod2man(1)>, L<nroff(1)>, L<troff(1)>,
1381L<man(1)>, L<man(7)>
1382
1383Ossanna, Joseph F., and Brian W. Kernighan. "Troff User's Manual,"
1384Computing Science Technical Report No. 54, AT&T Bell Laboratories. This is
1385the best documentation of standard B<nroff> and B<troff>. At the time of
1386this writing, it's available at
1387L<http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html>.
1388
1389The man page documenting the man macro set may be L<man(5)> instead of
1390L<man(7)> on your system. Also, please see L<pod2man(1)> for extensive
1391documentation on writing manual pages if you've not done it before and
1392aren't familiar with the conventions.
1393
1394The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
1395L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
1396Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
1397
1398=head1 AUTHOR
1399
1400Russ Allbery <[email protected]>, based I<very> heavily on the original
1401B<pod2man> by Tom Christiansen <[email protected]>.
1402
1403=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
1404
1405Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003 by Russ Allbery <[email protected]>.
1406
1407This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
1408under the same terms as Perl itself.
1409
1410=cut
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