NAME¶

Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text

SYNOPSIS¶

    use Pod::Text::Overstrike;
    my $parser = Pod::Text::Overstrike->new (sentence => 0, width => 78);
    # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
    $parser->parse_from_filehandle;
    # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
    $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');

DESCRIPTION¶

Pod::Text::Overstrike is a simple subclass of Pod::Text that highlights output text using overstrike sequences, in a manner similar to nroff. Characters in bold text are overstruck (character, backspace, character) and characters in underlined text are converted to overstruck underscores (underscore, backspace, character). This format was originally designed for hard-copy terminals and/or line printers, yet is readable on soft-copy (CRT) terminals.

Overstruck text is best viewed by page-at-a-time programs that take advantage of the terminal's stand-out and underline capabilities, such as the less program on Unix.

Apart from the overstrike, it in all ways functions like Pod::Text. See Pod::Text for details and available options.

BUGS¶

Currently, the outermost formatting instruction wins, so for example underlined text inside a region of bold text is displayed as simply bold. There may be some better approach possible.

AUTHOR¶

Originally written by Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>, using the framework created by Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>. Subsequently updated by Russ Allbery.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE¶

Copyright 2000 by Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>

Copyright 2001, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2018-2019 by Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>

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

SEE ALSO¶

Pod::Text, Pod::Simple

The current version of this module is always available from its web site at <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.