Ubuntu Manpage: pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format

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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 "SECTION
SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Select 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:

       •   Cross references between documents are not resolved when multiple pod documents are converted into  a
           single output "latex" file.

       •   Functions  and variables are not automatically recognized and they will therefore not be marked up in
           any special way unless instructed by an explicit pod command.

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