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9741dab0 1# Pod::Man -- Convert POD data to formatted *roff input.
40dcca8a 2# $Id: Man.pm,v 2.16 2007-11-29 01:35:53 eagle Exp $
9741dab0 3#
40dcca8a 4# Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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5# Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
6# Substantial contributions by Sean Burke <sburke@cpan.org>
9741dab0 7#
3c014959 8# This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
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9# under the same terms as Perl itself.
10#
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11# This module translates POD documentation into *roff markup using the man
12# macro set, and is intended for converting POD documents written as Unix
13# manual pages to manual pages that can be read by the man(1) command. It is
14# a replacement for the pod2man command distributed with versions of Perl
15# prior to 5.6.
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16#
17# Perl core hackers, please note that this module is also separately
18# maintained outside of the Perl core as part of the podlators. Please send
19# me any patches at the address above in addition to sending them to the
20# standard Perl mailing lists.
9741dab0 21
3c014959 22##############################################################################
9741dab0 23# Modules and declarations
3c014959 24##############################################################################
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25
26package Pod::Man;
27
b84d8b9e 28require 5.005;
9741dab0 29
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30use strict;
31use subs qw(makespace);
32use vars qw(@ISA %ESCAPES $PREAMBLE $VERSION);
33
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34use Carp qw(croak);
35use Pod::Simple ();
36use POSIX qw(strftime);
37
38@ISA = qw(Pod::Simple);
9741dab0 39
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40# Don't use the CVS revision as the version, since this module is also in Perl
41# core and too many things could munge CVS magic revision strings. This
42# number should ideally be the same as the CVS revision in podlators, however.
40dcca8a 43$VERSION = '2.16';
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44
45# Set the debugging level. If someone has inserted a debug function into this
46# class already, use that. Otherwise, use any Pod::Simple debug function
47# that's defined, and failing that, define a debug level of 10.
48BEGIN {
49 my $parent = defined (&Pod::Simple::DEBUG) ? \&Pod::Simple::DEBUG : undef;
50 unless (defined &DEBUG) {
51 *DEBUG = $parent || sub () { 10 };
52 }
53}
5cdeb5a2 54
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55# Import the ASCII constant from Pod::Simple. This is true iff we're in an
56# ASCII-based universe (including such things as ISO 8859-1 and UTF-8), and is
57# generally only false for EBCDIC.
58BEGIN { *ASCII = \&Pod::Simple::ASCII }
9741dab0 59
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60# Pretty-print a data structure. Only used for debugging.
61BEGIN { *pretty = \&Pod::Simple::pretty }
9741dab0 62
3c014959 63##############################################################################
b7ae008f 64# Object initialization
3c014959 65##############################################################################
9741dab0 66
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67# Initialize the object and set various Pod::Simple options that we need.
68# Here, we also process any additional options passed to the constructor or
69# set up defaults if none were given. Note that all internal object keys are
70# in all-caps, reserving all lower-case object keys for Pod::Simple and user
71# arguments.
72sub new {
73 my $class = shift;
74 my $self = $class->SUPER::new;
75
76 # Tell Pod::Simple to handle S<> by automatically inserting &nbsp;.
77 $self->nbsp_for_S (1);
78
79 # Tell Pod::Simple to keep whitespace whenever possible.
80 if ($self->can ('preserve_whitespace')) {
81 $self->preserve_whitespace (1);
82 } else {
83 $self->fullstop_space_harden (1);
84 }
85
86 # The =for and =begin targets that we accept.
87 $self->accept_targets (qw/man MAN roff ROFF/);
88
89 # Ensure that contiguous blocks of code are merged together. Otherwise,
90 # some of the guesswork heuristics don't work right.
91 $self->merge_text (1);
92
93 # Pod::Simple doesn't do anything useful with our arguments, but we want
94 # to put them in our object as hash keys and values. This could cause
95 # problems if we ever clash with Pod::Simple's own internal class
96 # variables.
97 %$self = (%$self, @_);
98
99 # Initialize various other internal constants based on our arguments.
100 $self->init_fonts;
101 $self->init_quotes;
102 $self->init_page;
103
104 # For right now, default to turning on all of the magic.
105 $$self{MAGIC_CPP} = 1;
106 $$self{MAGIC_EMDASH} = 1;
107 $$self{MAGIC_FUNC} = 1;
108 $$self{MAGIC_MANREF} = 1;
109 $$self{MAGIC_SMALLCAPS} = 1;
110 $$self{MAGIC_VARS} = 1;
111
112 return $self;
c9abbd5d 113}
5cdeb5a2 114
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115# Translate a font string into an escape.
116sub toescape { (length ($_[0]) > 1 ? '\f(' : '\f') . $_[0] }
117
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118# Determine which fonts the user wishes to use and store them in the object.
119# Regular, italic, bold, and bold-italic are constants, but the fixed width
120# fonts may be set by the user. Sets the internal hash key FONTS which is
121# used to map our internal font escapes to actual *roff sequences later.
122sub init_fonts {
123 my ($self) = @_;
9741dab0 124
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125 # Figure out the fixed-width font. If user-supplied, make sure that they
126 # are the right length.
9741dab0 127 for (qw/fixed fixedbold fixeditalic fixedbolditalic/) {
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128 my $font = $$self{$_};
129 if (defined ($font) && (length ($font) < 1 || length ($font) > 2)) {
130 croak qq(roff font should be 1 or 2 chars, not "$font");
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131 }
132 }
133
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134 # Set the default fonts. We can't be sure portably across different
135 # implementations what fixed bold-italic may be called (if it's even
136 # available), so default to just bold.
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137 $$self{fixed} ||= 'CW';
138 $$self{fixedbold} ||= 'CB';
139 $$self{fixeditalic} ||= 'CI';
140 $$self{fixedbolditalic} ||= 'CB';
141
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142 # Set up a table of font escapes. First number is fixed-width, second is
143 # bold, third is italic.
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144 $$self{FONTS} = { '000' => '\fR', '001' => '\fI',
145 '010' => '\fB', '011' => '\f(BI',
146 '100' => toescape ($$self{fixed}),
147 '101' => toescape ($$self{fixeditalic}),
148 '110' => toescape ($$self{fixedbold}),
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149 '111' => toescape ($$self{fixedbolditalic}) };
150}
9741dab0 151
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152# Initialize the quotes that we'll be using for C<> text. This requires some
153# special handling, both to parse the user parameter if given and to make sure
154# that the quotes will be safe against *roff. Sets the internal hash keys
155# LQUOTE and RQUOTE.
156sub init_quotes {
157 my ($self) = (@_);
9741dab0 158
5cdeb5a2 159 $$self{quotes} ||= '"';
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160 if ($$self{quotes} eq 'none') {
161 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = '';
162 } elsif (length ($$self{quotes}) == 1) {
163 $$self{LQUOTE} = $$self{RQUOTE} = $$self{quotes};
164 } elsif ($$self{quotes} =~ /^(.)(.)$/
165 || $$self{quotes} =~ /^(..)(..)$/) {
166 $$self{LQUOTE} = $1;
167 $$self{RQUOTE} = $2;
168 } else {
b7ae008f 169 croak(qq(Invalid quote specification "$$self{quotes}"))
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170 }
171
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172 # Double the first quote; note that this should not be s///g as two double
173 # quotes is represented in *roff as three double quotes, not four. Weird,
174 # I know.
175 $$self{LQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
176 $$self{RQUOTE} =~ s/\"/\"\"/;
177}
178
179# Initialize the page title information and indentation from our arguments.
180sub init_page {
181 my ($self) = @_;
182
183 # We used to try first to get the version number from a local binary, but
184 # we shouldn't need that any more. Get the version from the running Perl.
185 # Work a little magic to handle subversions correctly under both the
186 # pre-5.6 and the post-5.6 version numbering schemes.
187 my @version = ($] =~ /^(\d+)\.(\d{3})(\d{0,3})$/);
188 $version[2] ||= 0;
189 $version[2] *= 10 ** (3 - length $version[2]);
190 for (@version) { $_ += 0 }
191 my $version = join ('.', @version);
192
193 # Set the defaults for page titles and indentation if the user didn't
194 # override anything.
195 $$self{center} = 'User Contributed Perl Documentation'
196 unless defined $$self{center};
197 $$self{release} = 'perl v' . $version
198 unless defined $$self{release};
199 $$self{indent} = 4
200 unless defined $$self{indent};
201
202 # Double quotes in things that will be quoted.
203 for (qw/center release/) {
204 $$self{$_} =~ s/\"/\"\"/g if $$self{$_};
205 }
206}
207
208##############################################################################
209# Core parsing
210##############################################################################
211
212# This is the glue that connects the code below with Pod::Simple itself. The
213# goal is to convert the event stream coming from the POD parser into method
214# calls to handlers once the complete content of a tag has been seen. Each
215# paragraph or POD command will have textual content associated with it, and
216# as soon as all of a paragraph or POD command has been seen, that content
217# will be passed in to the corresponding method for handling that type of
218# object. The exceptions are handlers for lists, which have opening tag
219# handlers and closing tag handlers that will be called right away.
220#
221# The internal hash key PENDING is used to store the contents of a tag until
222# all of it has been seen. It holds a stack of open tags, each one
223# represented by a tuple of the attributes hash for the tag, formatting
224# options for the tag (which are inherited), and the contents of the tag.
225
226# Add a block of text to the contents of the current node, formatting it
227# according to the current formatting instructions as we do.
228sub _handle_text {
229 my ($self, $text) = @_;
230 DEBUG > 3 and print "== $text\n";
231 my $tag = $$self{PENDING}[-1];
232 $$tag[2] .= $self->format_text ($$tag[1], $text);
233}
234
235# Given an element name, get the corresponding method name.
236sub method_for_element {
237 my ($self, $element) = @_;
238 $element =~ tr/-/_/;
239 $element =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/;
240 $element =~ tr/_a-z0-9//cd;
241 return $element;
242}
243
244# Handle the start of a new element. If cmd_element is defined, assume that
245# we need to collect the entire tree for this element before passing it to the
246# element method, and create a new tree into which we'll collect blocks of
247# text and nested elements. Otherwise, if start_element is defined, call it.
248sub _handle_element_start {
249 my ($self, $element, $attrs) = @_;
250 DEBUG > 3 and print "++ $element (<", join ('> <', %$attrs), ">)\n";
251 my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
252
253 # If we have a command handler, we need to accumulate the contents of the
254 # tag before calling it. Turn off IN_NAME for any command other than
255 # <Para> so that IN_NAME isn't still set for the first heading after the
256 # NAME heading.
257 if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
258 DEBUG > 2 and print "<$element> starts saving a tag\n";
259 $$self{IN_NAME} = 0 if ($element ne 'Para');
260
261 # How we're going to format embedded text blocks depends on the tag
262 # and also depends on our parent tags. Thankfully, inside tags that
263 # turn off guesswork and reformatting, nothing else can turn it back
264 # on, so this can be strictly inherited.
265 my $formatting = $$self{PENDING}[-1][1];
266 $formatting = $self->formatting ($formatting, $element);
267 push (@{ $$self{PENDING} }, [ $attrs, $formatting, '' ]);
268 DEBUG > 4 and print "Pending: [", pretty ($$self{PENDING}), "]\n";
269 } elsif ($self->can ("start_$method")) {
270 my $method = 'start_' . $method;
271 $self->$method ($attrs, '');
272 } else {
273 DEBUG > 2 and print "No $method start method, skipping\n";
274 }
275}
276
277# Handle the end of an element. If we had a cmd_ method for this element,
278# this is where we pass along the tree that we built. Otherwise, if we have
279# an end_ method for the element, call that.
280sub _handle_element_end {
281 my ($self, $element) = @_;
282 DEBUG > 3 and print "-- $element\n";
283 my $method = $self->method_for_element ($element);
284
285 # If we have a command handler, pull off the pending text and pass it to
286 # the handler along with the saved attribute hash.
287 if ($self->can ("cmd_$method")) {
288 DEBUG > 2 and print "</$element> stops saving a tag\n";
289 my $tag = pop @{ $$self{PENDING} };
290 DEBUG > 4 and print "Popped: [", pretty ($tag), "]\n";
291 DEBUG > 4 and print "Pending: [", pretty ($$self{PENDING}), "]\n";
292 my $method = 'cmd_' . $method;
293 my $text = $self->$method ($$tag[0], $$tag[2]);
294 if (defined $text) {
295 if (@{ $$self{PENDING} } > 1) {
296 $$self{PENDING}[-1][2] .= $text;
297 } else {
298 $self->output ($text);
299 }
300 }
301 } elsif ($self->can ("end_$method")) {
302 my $method = 'end_' . $method;
8f202758 303 $self->$method ();
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304 } else {
305 DEBUG > 2 and print "No $method end method, skipping\n";
306 }
307}
308
309##############################################################################
310# General formatting
311##############################################################################
312
313# Return formatting instructions for a new block. Takes the current
314# formatting and the new element. Formatting inherits negatively, in the
315# sense that if the parent has turned off guesswork, all child elements should
316# leave it off. We therefore return a copy of the same formatting
317# instructions but possibly with more things turned off depending on the
318# element.
319sub formatting {
320 my ($self, $current, $element) = @_;
321 my %options;
322 if ($current) {
323 %options = %$current;
324 } else {
325 %options = (guesswork => 1, cleanup => 1, convert => 1);
326 }
327 if ($element eq 'Data') {
328 $options{guesswork} = 0;
329 $options{cleanup} = 0;
330 $options{convert} = 0;
331 } elsif ($element eq 'X') {
332 $options{guesswork} = 0;
333 $options{cleanup} = 0;
334 } elsif ($element eq 'Verbatim' || $element eq 'C') {
335 $options{guesswork} = 0;
40dcca8a 336 $options{literal} = 1;
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337 }
338 return \%options;
339}
340
341# Format a text block. Takes a hash of formatting options and the text to
342# format. Currently, the only formatting options are guesswork, cleanup, and
343# convert, all of which are boolean.
344sub format_text {
345 my ($self, $options, $text) = @_;
346 my $guesswork = $$options{guesswork} && !$$self{IN_NAME};
347 my $cleanup = $$options{cleanup};
348 my $convert = $$options{convert};
40dcca8a 349 my $literal = $$options{literal};
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350
351 # Normally we do character translation, but we won't even do that in
352 # <Data> blocks.
353 if ($convert) {
354 if (ASCII) {
355 $text =~ s/(\\|[^\x00-\x7F])/$ESCAPES{ord ($1)} || "X"/eg;
356 } else {
357 $text =~ s/(\\)/$ESCAPES{ord ($1)} || "X"/eg;
358 }
359 }
360
361 # Cleanup just tidies up a few things, telling *roff that the hyphens are
362 # hard and putting a bit of space between consecutive underscores.
363 if ($cleanup) {
364 $text =~ s/-/\\-/g;
365 $text =~ s/_(?=_)/_\\|/g;
366 }
367
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369 # but don't mess up our accept escapes.
370 if ($literal) {
371 $text =~ s/(?<!\\\*)\'/\\*\(Aq/g;
372 $text =~ s/(?<!\\\*)\`/\\\`/g;
373 }
374
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375 # If guesswork is asked for, do that. This involves more substantial
376 # formatting based on various heuristics that may only be appropriate for
377 # particular documents.
378 if ($guesswork) {
379 $text = $self->guesswork ($text);
380 }
381
382 return $text;
383}
384
385# Handles C<> text, deciding whether to put \*C` around it or not. This is a
386# whole bunch of messy heuristics to try to avoid overquoting, originally from
387# Barrie Slaymaker. This largely duplicates similar code in Pod::Text.
388sub quote_literal {
389 my $self = shift;
390 local $_ = shift;
391
392 # A regex that matches the portion of a variable reference that's the
393 # array or hash index, separated out just because we want to use it in
394 # several places in the following regex.
395 my $index = '(?: \[.*\] | \{.*\} )?';
396
397 # Check for things that we don't want to quote, and if we find any of
398 # them, return the string with just a font change and no quoting.
399 m{
400 ^\s*
401 (?:
402 ( [\'\`\"] ) .* \1 # already quoted
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403 | \\\*\(Aq .* \\\*\(Aq # quoted and escaped
404 | \\?\` .* ( \' | \\\*\(Aq ) # `quoted'
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405 | \$+ [\#^]? \S $index # special ($^Foo, $")
406 | [\$\@%&*]+ \#? [:\'\w]+ $index # plain var or func
407 | [\$\@%&*]* [:\'\w]+ (?: -> )? \(\s*[^\s,]\s*\) # 0/1-arg func call
408 | [-+]? ( \d[\d.]* | \.\d+ ) (?: [eE][-+]?\d+ )? # a number
409 | 0x [a-fA-F\d]+ # a hex constant
410 )
411 \s*\z
412 }xso and return '\f(FS' . $_ . '\f(FE';
413
414 # If we didn't return, go ahead and quote the text.
415 return '\f(FS\*(C`' . $_ . "\\*(C'\\f(FE";
416}
417
418# Takes a text block to perform guesswork on. Returns the text block with
419# formatting codes added. This is the code that marks up various Perl
420# constructs and things commonly used in man pages without requiring the user
421# to add any explicit markup, and is applied to all non-literal text. We're
422# guaranteed that the text we're applying guesswork to does not contain any
423# *roff formatting codes. Note that the inserted font sequences must be
424# treated later with mapfonts or textmapfonts.
425#
426# This method is very fragile, both in the regular expressions it uses and in
427# the ordering of those modifications. Care and testing is required when
428# modifying it.
429sub guesswork {
430 my $self = shift;
431 local $_ = shift;
432 DEBUG > 5 and print " Guesswork called on [$_]\n";
433
434 # By the time we reach this point, all hypens will be escaped by adding a
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435 # backslash. We want to undo that escaping if they're part of regular
436 # words and there's only a single dash, since that's a real hyphen that
437 # *roff gets to consider a possible break point. Make sure that a dash
438 # after the first character of a word stays non-breaking, however.
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439 #
440 # Note that this is not user-controllable; we pretty much have to do this
441 # transformation or *roff will mangle the output in unacceptable ways.
442 s{
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443 ( (?:\G|^|\s) [\(\"]* [a-zA-Z] ) ( \\- )?
444 ( (?: [a-zA-Z\']+ \\-)+ )
445 ( [a-zA-Z\']+ ) (?= [\)\".?!,;:]* (?:\s|\Z|\\\ ) )
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446 \b
447 } {
448 my ($prefix, $hyphen, $main, $suffix) = ($1, $2, $3, $4);
449 $hyphen ||= '';
450 $main =~ s/\\-/-/g;
451 $prefix . $hyphen . $main . $suffix;
452 }egx;
453
454 # Translate "--" into a real em-dash if it's used like one. This means
455 # that it's either surrounded by whitespace, it follows a regular word, or
456 # it occurs between two regular words.
457 if ($$self{MAGIC_EMDASH}) {
458 s{ (\s) \\-\\- (\s) } { $1 . '\*(--' . $2 }egx;
459 s{ (\b[a-zA-Z]+) \\-\\- (\s|\Z|[a-zA-Z]+\b) } { $1 . '\*(--' . $2 }egx;
460 }
461
462 # Make words in all-caps a little bit smaller; they look better that way.
463 # However, we don't want to change Perl code (like @ARGV), nor do we want
464 # to fix the MIME in MIME-Version since it looks weird with the
465 # full-height V.
466 #
467 # We change only a string of all caps (2) either at the beginning of the
468 # line or following regular punctuation (like quotes) or whitespace (1),
469 # and followed by either similar punctuation, an em-dash, or the end of
470 # the line (3).
471 if ($$self{MAGIC_SMALLCAPS}) {
472 s{
473 ( ^ | [\s\(\"\'\`\[\{<>] | \\\ ) # (1)
474 ( [A-Z] [A-Z] (?: [/A-Z+:\d_\$&] | \\- )* ) # (2)
475 (?= [\s>\}\]\(\)\'\".?!,;] | \\*\(-- | \\\ | $ ) # (3)
476 } {
477 $1 . '\s-1' . $2 . '\s0'
478 }egx;
479 }
480
481 # Note that from this point forward, we have to adjust for \s-1 and \s-0
482 # strings inserted around things that we've made small-caps if later
483 # transforms should work on those strings.
484
485 # Italize functions in the form func(), including functions that are in
486 # all capitals, but don't italize if there's anything between the parens.
487 # The function must start with an alphabetic character or underscore and
488 # then consist of word characters or colons.
489 if ($$self{MAGIC_FUNC}) {
490 s{
491 ( \b | \\s-1 )
492 ( [A-Za-z_] ([:\w] | \\s-?[01])+ \(\) )
493 } {
494 $1 . '\f(IS' . $2 . '\f(IE'
495 }egx;
496 }
497
498 # Change references to manual pages to put the page name in italics but
499 # the number in the regular font, with a thin space between the name and
500 # the number. Only recognize func(n) where func starts with an alphabetic
501 # character or underscore and contains only word characters, periods (for
502 # configuration file man pages), or colons, and n is a single digit,
503 # optionally followed by some number of lowercase letters. Note that this
504 # does not recognize man page references like perl(l) or socket(3SOCKET).
505 if ($$self{MAGIC_MANREF}) {
506 s{
507 ( \b | \\s-1 )
508 ( [A-Za-z_] (?:[.:\w] | \\- | \\s-?[01])+ )
509 ( \( \d [a-z]* \) )
510 } {
511 $1 . '\f(IS' . $2 . '\f(IE\|' . $3
512 }egx;
513 }
514
515 # Convert simple Perl variable references to a fixed-width font. Be
516 # careful not to convert functions, though; there are too many subtleties
517 # with them to want to perform this transformation.
518 if ($$self{MAGIC_VARS}) {
519 s{
520 ( ^ | \s+ )
521 ( [\$\@%] [\w:]+ )
522 (?! \( )
523 } {
524 $1 . '\f(FS' . $2 . '\f(FE'
525 }egx;
526 }
527
528 # Fix up double quotes. Unfortunately, we miss this transformation if the
529 # quoted text contains any code with formatting codes and there's not much
530 # we can effectively do about that, which makes it somewhat unclear if
531 # this is really a good idea.
532 s{ \" ([^\"]+) \" } { '\*(L"' . $1 . '\*(R"' }egx;
533
534 # Make C++ into \*(C+, which is a squinched version.
535 if ($$self{MAGIC_CPP}) {
536 s{ \b C\+\+ } {\\*\(C+}gx;
537 }
538
539 # Done.
540 DEBUG > 5 and print " Guesswork returning [$_]\n";
541 return $_;
542}
543
544##############################################################################
545# Output
546##############################################################################
547
548# When building up the *roff code, we don't use real *roff fonts. Instead, we
549# embed font codes of the form \f(<font>[SE] where <font> is one of B, I, or
550# F, S stands for start, and E stands for end. This method turns these into
551# the right start and end codes.
552#
553# We add this level of complexity because the old pod2man didn't get code like
554# B<someI<thing> else> right; after I<> it switched back to normal text rather
555# than bold. We take care of this by using variables that state whether bold,
556# italic, or fixed are turned on as a combined pointer to our current font
557# sequence, and set each to the number of current nestings of start tags for
558# that font.
559#
560# \fP changes to the previous font, but only one previous font is kept. We
561# don't know what the outside level font is; normally it's R, but if we're
562# inside a heading it could be something else. So arrange things so that the
563# outside font is always the "previous" font and end with \fP instead of \fR.
564# Idea from Zack Weinberg.
565sub mapfonts {
566 my ($self, $text) = @_;
567 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
568 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
569 my $last = '\fR';
570 $text =~ s<
571 \\f\((.)(.)
572 > <
573 my $sequence = '';
574 my $f;
575 if ($last ne '\fR') { $sequence = '\fP' }
576 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
577 $f = $$self{FONTS}{ ($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1) };
578 if ($f eq $last) {
579 '';
580 } else {
581 if ($f ne '\fR') { $sequence .= $f }
582 $last = $f;
583 $sequence;
584 }
585 >gxe;
586 return $text;
587}
588
589# Unfortunately, there is a bug in Solaris 2.6 nroff (not present in GNU
590# groff) where the sequence \fB\fP\f(CW\fP leaves the font set to B rather
591# than R, presumably because \f(CW doesn't actually do a font change. To work
592# around this, use a separate textmapfonts for text blocks where the default
593# font is always R and only use the smart mapfonts for headings.
594sub textmapfonts {
595 my ($self, $text) = @_;
596 my ($fixed, $bold, $italic) = (0, 0, 0);
597 my %magic = (F => \$fixed, B => \$bold, I => \$italic);
598 $text =~ s<
599 \\f\((.)(.)
600 > <
601 ${ $magic{$1} } += ($2 eq 'S') ? 1 : -1;
602 $$self{FONTS}{ ($fixed && 1) . ($bold && 1) . ($italic && 1) };
603 >gxe;
604 return $text;
605}
606
607# Given a command and a single argument that may or may not contain double
608# quotes, handle double-quote formatting for it. If there are no double
609# quotes, just return the command followed by the argument in double quotes.
610# If there are double quotes, use an if statement to test for nroff, and for
611# nroff output the command followed by the argument in double quotes with
612# embedded double quotes doubled. For other formatters, remap paired double
613# quotes to LQUOTE and RQUOTE.
614sub switchquotes {
615 my ($self, $command, $text, $extra) = @_;
616 $text =~ s/\\\*\([LR]\"/\"/g;
617
618 # We also have to deal with \*C` and \*C', which are used to add the
619 # quotes around C<> text, since they may expand to " and if they do this
620 # confuses the .SH macros and the like no end. Expand them ourselves.
621 # Also separate troff from nroff if there are any fixed-width fonts in use
622 # to work around problems with Solaris nroff.
623 my $c_is_quote = ($$self{LQUOTE} =~ /\"/) || ($$self{RQUOTE} =~ /\"/);
624 my $fixedpat = join '|', @{ $$self{FONTS} }{'100', '101', '110', '111'};
625 $fixedpat =~ s/\\/\\\\/g;
626 $fixedpat =~ s/\(/\\\(/g;
627 if ($text =~ m/\"/ || $text =~ m/$fixedpat/) {
628 $text =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
629 my $nroff = $text;
630 my $troff = $text;
631 $troff =~ s/\"\"([^\"]*)\"\"/\`\`$1\'\'/g;
632 if ($c_is_quote and $text =~ m/\\\*\(C[\'\`]/) {
633 $nroff =~ s/\\\*\(C\`/$$self{LQUOTE}/g;
634 $nroff =~ s/\\\*\(C\'/$$self{RQUOTE}/g;
635 $troff =~ s/\\\*\(C[\'\`]//g;
636 }
637 $nroff = qq("$nroff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
638 $troff = qq("$troff") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
639
640 # Work around the Solaris nroff bug where \f(CW\fP leaves the font set
641 # to Roman rather than the actual previous font when used in headings.
642 # troff output may still be broken, but at least we can fix nroff by
643 # just switching the font changes to the non-fixed versions.
644 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{100}\E(.*)\\f[PR]/$1/g;
645 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{101}\E(.*)\\f([PR])/\\fI$1\\f$2/g;
646 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{110}\E(.*)\\f([PR])/\\fB$1\\f$2/g;
647 $nroff =~ s/\Q$$self{FONTS}{111}\E(.*)\\f([PR])/\\f\(BI$1\\f$2/g;
648
649 # Now finally output the command. Bother with .ie only if the nroff
650 # and troff output aren't the same.
651 if ($nroff ne $troff) {
652 return ".ie n $command $nroff\n.el $command $troff\n";
653 } else {
654 return "$command $nroff\n";
655 }
656 } else {
657 $text = qq("$text") . ($extra ? " $extra" : '');
658 return "$command $text\n";
659 }
660}
661
662# Protect leading quotes and periods against interpretation as commands. Also
663# protect anything starting with a backslash, since it could expand or hide
664# something that *roff would interpret as a command. This is overkill, but
665# it's much simpler than trying to parse *roff here.
666sub protect {
667 my ($self, $text) = @_;
668 $text =~ s/^([.\'\\])/\\&$1/mg;
669 return $text;
670}
671
672# Make vertical whitespace if NEEDSPACE is set, appropriate to the indentation
673# level the situation. This function is needed since in *roff one has to
674# create vertical whitespace after paragraphs and between some things, but
675# other macros create their own whitespace. Also close out a sequence of
676# repeated =items, since calling makespace means we're about to begin the item
677# body.
678sub makespace {
679 my ($self) = @_;
680 $self->output (".PD\n") if $$self{ITEMS} > 1;
681 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
682 $self->output ($$self{INDENT} > 0 ? ".Sp\n" : ".PP\n")
683 if $$self{NEEDSPACE};
684}
685
686# Output any pending index entries, and optionally an index entry given as an
687# argument. Support multiple index entries in X<> separated by slashes, and
688# strip special escapes from index entries.
689sub outindex {
690 my ($self, $section, $index) = @_;
691 my @entries = map { split m%\s*/\s*% } @{ $$self{INDEX} };
692 return unless ($section || @entries);
693
694 # We're about to output all pending entries, so clear our pending queue.
695 $$self{INDEX} = [];
696
697 # Build the output. Regular index entries are marked Xref, and headings
698 # pass in their own section. Undo some *roff formatting on headings.
699 my @output;
700 if (@entries) {
701 push @output, [ 'Xref', join (' ', @entries) ];
702 }
703 if ($section) {
704 $index =~ s/\\-/-/g;
705 $index =~ s/\\(?:s-?\d|.\(..|.)//g;
706 push @output, [ $section, $index ];
707 }
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709 # Print out the .IX commands.
710 for (@output) {
711 my ($type, $entry) = @$_;
712 $entry =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
713 $self->output (".IX $type " . '"' . $entry . '"' . "\n");
714 }
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715}
716
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717# Output some text, without any additional changes.
718sub output {
719 my ($self, @text) = @_;
720 print { $$self{output_fh} } @text;
721}
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724# Document initialization
725##############################################################################
bf202ccd 726
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727# Handle the start of the document. Here we handle empty documents, as well
728# as setting up our basic macros in a preamble and building the page title.
729sub start_document {
730 my ($self, $attrs) = @_;
731 if ($$attrs{contentless} && !$$self{ALWAYS_EMIT_SOMETHING}) {
732 DEBUG and print "Document is contentless\n";
733 $$self{CONTENTLESS} = 1;
734 return;
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736
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737 # Determine information for the preamble and then output it.
738 my ($name, $section);
739 if (defined $$self{name}) {
740 $name = $$self{name};
741 $section = $$self{section} || 1;
742 } else {
743 ($name, $section) = $self->devise_title;
9741dab0 744 }
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745 my $date = $$self{date} || $self->devise_date;
746 $self->preamble ($name, $section, $date)
747 unless $self->bare_output or DEBUG > 9;
9741dab0 748
b7ae008f 749 # Initialize a few per-document variables.
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750 $$self{INDENT} = 0; # Current indentation level.
751 $$self{INDENTS} = []; # Stack of indentations.
752 $$self{INDEX} = []; # Index keys waiting to be printed.
2da3dd12 753 $$self{IN_NAME} = 0; # Whether processing the NAME section.
b616daaf 754 $$self{ITEMS} = 0; # The number of consecutive =items.
4213be12 755 $$self{ITEMTYPES} = []; # Stack of =item types, one per list.
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756 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0; # Whether there is a shift waiting.
757 $$self{SHIFTS} = []; # Stack of .RS shifts.
b7ae008f 758 $$self{PENDING} = [[]]; # Pending output.
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760
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761# Handle the end of the document. This does nothing but print out a final
762# comment at the end of the document under debugging.
763sub end_document {
764 my ($self) = @_;
765 return if $self->bare_output;
766 return if ($$self{CONTENTLESS} && !$$self{ALWAYS_EMIT_SOMETHING});
767 $self->output (q(.\" [End document]) . "\n") if DEBUG;
768}
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770# Try to figure out the name and section from the file name and return them as
771# a list, returning an empty name and section 1 if we can't find any better
772# information. Uses File::Basename and File::Spec as necessary.
773sub devise_title {
774 my ($self) = @_;
775 my $name = $self->source_filename || '';
776 my $section = $$self{section} || 1;
777 $section = 3 if (!$$self{section} && $name =~ /\.pm\z/i);
778 $name =~ s/\.p(od|[lm])\z//i;
779
780 # If the section isn't 3, then the name defaults to just the basename of
781 # the file. Otherwise, assume we're dealing with a module. We want to
782 # figure out the full module name from the path to the file, but we don't
783 # want to include too much of the path into the module name. Lose
784 # anything up to the first off:
785 #
786 # */lib/*perl*/ standard or site_perl module
787 # */*perl*/lib/ from -Dprefix=/opt/perl
788 # */*perl*/ random module hierarchy
789 #
790 # which works. Also strip off a leading site, site_perl, or vendor_perl
791 # component, any OS-specific component, and any version number component,
792 # and strip off an initial component of "lib" or "blib/lib" since that's
793 # what ExtUtils::MakeMaker creates. splitdir requires at least File::Spec
794 # 0.8.
795 if ($section !~ /^3/) {
796 require File::Basename;
797 $name = uc File::Basename::basename ($name);
3c014959 798 } else {
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800 my ($volume, $dirs, $file) = File::Spec->splitpath ($name);
801 my @dirs = File::Spec->splitdir ($dirs);
802 my $cut = 0;
803 my $i;
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804 for ($i = 0; $i < @dirs; $i++) {
805 if ($dirs[$i] =~ /perl/) {
b7ae008f 806 $cut = $i + 1;
40dcca8a 807 $cut++ if ($dirs[$i + 1] && $dirs[$i + 1] eq 'lib');
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808 last;
809 }
810 }
811 if ($cut > 0) {
812 splice (@dirs, 0, $cut);
813 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^(site|vendor)(_perl)?$/);
814 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^[\d.]+$/);
815 shift @dirs if ($dirs[0] =~ /^(.*-$^O|$^O-.*|$^O)$/);
816 }
817 shift @dirs if $dirs[0] eq 'lib';
818 splice (@dirs, 0, 2) if ($dirs[0] eq 'blib' && $dirs[1] eq 'lib');
819
820 # Remove empty directories when building the module name; they
821 # occur too easily on Unix by doubling slashes.
822 $name = join ('::', (grep { $_ ? $_ : () } @dirs), $file);
844b31e3 823 }
b7ae008f 824 return ($name, $section);
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826
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827# Determine the modification date and return that, properly formatted in ISO
828# format. If we can't get the modification date of the input, instead use the
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829# current time. Pod::Simple returns a completely unuseful stringified file
830# handle as the source_filename for input from a file handle, so we have to
831# deal with that as well.
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832sub devise_date {
833 my ($self) = @_;
834 my $input = $self->source_filename;
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835 my $time;
836 if ($input) {
837 $time = (stat $input)[9] || time;
838 } else {
839 $time = time;
840 }
b7ae008f 841 return strftime ('%Y-%m-%d', localtime $time);
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843
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844# Print out the preamble and the title. The meaning of the arguments to .TH
845# unfortunately vary by system; some systems consider the fourth argument to
846# be a "source" and others use it as a version number. Generally it's just
847# presented as the left-side footer, though, so it doesn't matter too much if
848# a particular system gives it another interpretation.
849#
850# The order of date and release used to be reversed in older versions of this
851# module, but this order is correct for both Solaris and Linux.
852sub preamble {
853 my ($self, $name, $section, $date) = @_;
854 my $preamble = $self->preamble_template;
855
856 # Build the index line and make sure that it will be syntactically valid.
857 my $index = "$name $section";
858 $index =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
859
860 # If name or section contain spaces, quote them (section really never
861 # should, but we may as well be cautious).
862 for ($name, $section) {
863 if (/\s/) {
864 s/\"/\"\"/g;
865 $_ = '"' . $_ . '"';
866 }
867 }
868
869 # Double quotes in date, since it will be quoted.
870 $date =~ s/\"/\"\"/g;
871
872 # Substitute into the preamble the configuration options.
873 $preamble =~ s/\@CFONT\@/$$self{fixed}/;
874 $preamble =~ s/\@LQUOTE\@/$$self{LQUOTE}/;
875 $preamble =~ s/\@RQUOTE\@/$$self{RQUOTE}/;
876 chomp $preamble;
877
878 # Get the version information.
879 my $version = $self->version_report;
880
881 # Finally output everything.
882 $self->output (<<"----END OF HEADER----");
883.\\" Automatically generated by $version
884.\\"
885.\\" Standard preamble:
886.\\" ========================================================================
887$preamble
888.\\" ========================================================================
889.\\"
890.IX Title "$index"
891.TH $name $section "$date" "$$self{release}" "$$self{center}"
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893.\\" way too many mistakes in technical documents.
894.if n .ad l
895.nh
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897 $self->output (".\\\" [End of preamble]\n") if DEBUG;
898}
899
900##############################################################################
901# Text blocks
902##############################################################################
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905# the first paragraph of text after an =over, in which case we have to change
906# indentations for *roff.
907sub cmd_para {
908 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
909 my $line = $$attrs{start_line};
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911 # Output the paragraph. We also have to handle =over without =item. If
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912 # there's an =over without =item, SHIFTWAIT will be set, and we need to
913 # handle creation of the indent here. Add the shift to SHIFTS so that it
914 # will be cleaned up on =back.
5cdeb5a2 915 $self->makespace;
b616daaf 916 if ($$self{SHIFTWAIT}) {
bf202ccd 917 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
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918 push (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
919 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
bf202ccd 920 }
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922 # Add the line number for debugging, but not in the NAME section just in
923 # case the comment would confuse apropos.
924 $self->output (".\\\" [At source line $line]\n")
925 if defined ($line) && DEBUG && !$$self{IN_NAME};
9741dab0 926
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927 # Force exactly one newline at the end and strip unwanted trailing
928 # whitespace at the end.
929 $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
9741dab0 930
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931 # Output the paragraph.
932 $self->output ($self->protect ($self->textmapfonts ($text)));
933 $self->outindex;
934 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
935 return '';
936}
5cdeb5a2 937
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939# to protect against commands and wrap in .Vb/.Ve (which we define in our
940# prelude).
941sub cmd_verbatim {
942 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
943
944 # Ignore an empty verbatim paragraph.
945 return unless $text =~ /\S/;
946
947 # Force exactly one newline at the end and strip unwanted trailing
948 # whitespace at the end.
949 $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
950
951 # Get a count of the number of lines before the first blank line, which
952 # we'll pass to .Vb as its parameter. This tells *roff to keep that many
953 # lines together. We don't want to tell *roff to keep huge blocks
954 # together.
955 my @lines = split (/\n/, $text);
956 my $unbroken = 0;
957 for (@lines) {
958 last if /^\s*$/;
959 $unbroken++;
9741dab0 960 }
b7ae008f 961 $unbroken = 10 if ($unbroken > 12 && !$$self{MAGIC_VNOPAGEBREAK_LIMIT});
9741dab0 962
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963 # Prepend a null token to each line.
964 $text =~ s/^/\\&/gm;
9741dab0 965
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967 $self->makespace;
968 $self->output (".Vb $unbroken\n$text.Ve\n");
969 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
970 return '';
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972
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973# Handle literal text (produced by =for and similar constructs). Just output
974# it with the minimum of changes.
975sub cmd_data {
976 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
977 $text =~ s/^\n+//;
978 $text =~ s/\n{0,2}$/\n/;
979 $self->output ($text);
980 return '';
981}
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3c014959 983##############################################################################
b7ae008f 984# Headings
3c014959 985##############################################################################
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987# Common code for all headings. This is called before the actual heading is
988# output. It returns the cleaned up heading text (putting the heading all on
989# one line) and may do other things, like closing bad =item blocks.
990sub heading_common {
991 my ($self, $text, $line) = @_;
992 $text =~ s/\s+$//;
993 $text =~ s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
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995 # This should never happen; it means that we have a heading after =item
996 # without an intervening =back. But just in case, handle it anyway.
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997 if ($$self{ITEMS} > 1) {
998 $$self{ITEMS} = 0;
999 $self->output (".PD\n");
1000 }
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1002 # Output the current source line.
1003 $self->output ( ".\\\" [At source line $line]\n" )
1004 if defined ($line) && DEBUG;
1005 return $text;
1006}
1007
1008# First level heading. We can't output .IX in the NAME section due to a bug
1009# in some versions of catman, so don't output a .IX for that section. .SH
1010# already uses small caps, so remove \s0 and \s-1. Maintain IN_NAME as
1011# appropriate.
1012sub cmd_head1 {
1013 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1014 $text =~ s/\\s-?\d//g;
1015 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
1016 my $isname = ($text eq 'NAME' || $text =~ /\(NAME\)/);
1017 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.SH', $self->mapfonts ($text)));
1018 $self->outindex ('Header', $text) unless $isname;
9741dab0 1019 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
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1021 return '';
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1023
1024# Second level heading.
1025sub cmd_head2 {
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1026 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1027 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
1028 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.Sh', $self->mapfonts ($text)));
1029 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $text);
9741dab0 1030 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
b7ae008f 1031 return '';
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1033
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1035# heading in italics as a normal paragraph.
50a3fd2a 1036sub cmd_head3 {
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1037 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1038 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
50a3fd2a 1039 $self->makespace;
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1040 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ('\f(IS' . $text . '\f(IE') . "\n");
1041 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $text);
50a3fd2a 1042 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
b7ae008f 1043 return '';
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1045
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1046# Fourth level heading. *roff doesn't have this concept, so just put the
1047# heading as a normal paragraph.
50a3fd2a 1048sub cmd_head4 {
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1049 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1050 $text = $self->heading_common ($text, $$attrs{start_line});
50a3fd2a 1051 $self->makespace;
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1052 $self->output ($self->textmapfonts ($text) . "\n");
1053 $self->outindex ('Subsection', $text);
50a3fd2a 1054 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
b7ae008f 1055 return '';
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1057
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1059# Formatting codes
1060##############################################################################
1061
1062# All of the formatting codes that aren't handled internally by the parser,
1063# other than L<> and X<>.
1064sub cmd_b { return '\f(BS' . $_[2] . '\f(BE' }
1065sub cmd_i { return '\f(IS' . $_[2] . '\f(IE' }
1066sub cmd_f { return '\f(IS' . $_[2] . '\f(IE' }
1067sub cmd_c { return $_[0]->quote_literal ($_[2]) }
1068
1069# Index entries are just added to the pending entries.
1070sub cmd_x {
1071 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1072 push (@{ $$self{INDEX} }, $text);
1073 return '';
1074}
1075
1076# Links reduce to the text that we're given, wrapped in angle brackets if it's
1077# a URL.
1078sub cmd_l {
1079 my ($self, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1080 return $$attrs{type} eq 'url' ? "<$text>" : $text;
1081}
1082
1083##############################################################################
1084# List handling
1085##############################################################################
1086
1087# Handle the beginning of an =over block. Takes the type of the block as the
1088# first argument, and then the attr hash. This is called by the handlers for
1089# the four different types of lists (bullet, number, text, and block).
1090sub over_common_start {
1091 my ($self, $type, $attrs) = @_;
1092 my $line = $$attrs{start_line};
1093 my $indent = $$attrs{indent};
1094 DEBUG > 3 and print " Starting =over $type (line $line, indent ",
1095 ($indent || '?'), "\n";
1096
1097 # Find the indentation level.
1098 unless (defined ($indent) && $indent =~ /^[-+]?\d{1,4}\s*$/) {
1099 $indent = $$self{indent};
1100 }
1101
1102 # If we've gotten multiple indentations in a row, we need to emit the
1103 # pending indentation for the last level that we saw and haven't acted on
1104 # yet. SHIFTS is the stack of indentations that we've actually emitted
1105 # code for.
b616daaf 1106 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } < @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
9741dab0 1107 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
b616daaf 1108 push (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
9741dab0 1109 }
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1110
1111 # Now, do record-keeping. INDENTS is a stack of indentations that we've
1112 # seen so far, and INDENT is the current level of indentation. ITEMTYPES
1113 # is a stack of list types that we've seen.
9741dab0 1114 push (@{ $$self{INDENTS} }, $$self{INDENT});
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1115 push (@{ $$self{ITEMTYPES} }, $type);
1116 $$self{INDENT} = $indent + 0;
b616daaf 1117 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 1;
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1118}
1119
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1120# End an =over block. Takes no options other than the class pointer.
1121# Normally, once we close a block and therefore remove something from INDENTS,
1122# INDENTS will now be longer than SHIFTS, indicating that we also need to emit
1123# *roff code to close the indent. This isn't *always* true, depending on the
1124# circumstance. If we're still inside an indentation, we need to emit another
1125# .RE and then a new .RS to unconfuse *roff.
1126sub over_common_end {
1127 my ($self) = @_;
1128 DEBUG > 3 and print " Ending =over\n";
9741dab0 1129 $$self{INDENT} = pop @{ $$self{INDENTS} };
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1130 pop @{ $$self{ITEMTYPES} };
1131
1132 # If we emitted code for that indentation, end it.
b616daaf 1133 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } > @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
9741dab0 1134 $self->output (".RE\n");
b616daaf 1135 pop @{ $$self{SHIFTS} };
9741dab0 1136 }
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1137
1138 # If we're still in an indentation, *roff will have now lost track of the
1139 # right depth of that indentation, so fix that.
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1140 if (@{ $$self{INDENTS} } > 0) {
1141 $self->output (".RE\n");
1142 $self->output (".RS $$self{INDENT}\n");
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1143 }
1144 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
b616daaf 1145 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
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1146}
1147
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1148# Dispatch the start and end calls as appropriate.
1149sub start_over_bullet { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('bullet', @_) }
1150sub start_over_number { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('number', @_) }
1151sub start_over_text { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('text', @_) }
1152sub start_over_block { my $s = shift; $s->over_common_start ('block', @_) }
1153sub end_over_bullet { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1154sub end_over_number { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1155sub end_over_text { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1156sub end_over_block { $_[0]->over_common_end }
1157
1158# The common handler for all item commands. Takes the type of the item, the
1159# attributes, and then the text of the item.
1160#
1161# Emit an index entry for anything that's interesting, but don't emit index
1162# entries for things like bullets and numbers. Newlines in an item title are
1163# turned into spaces since *roff can't handle them embedded.
1164sub item_common {
1165 my ($self, $type, $attrs, $text) = @_;
1166 my $line = $$attrs{start_line};
1167 DEBUG > 3 and print " $type item (line $line): $text\n";
1168
1169 # Clean up the text. We want to end up with two variables, one ($text)
1170 # which contains any body text after taking out the item portion, and
1171 # another ($item) which contains the actual item text.
1172 $text =~ s/\s+$//;
1173 my ($item, $index);
1174 if ($type eq 'bullet') {
1175 $item = "\\\(bu";
1176 $text =~ s/\n*$/\n/;
1177 } elsif ($type eq 'number') {
1178 $item = $$attrs{number} . '.';
1179 } else {
1180 $item = $text;
1181 $item =~ s/\s*\n\s*/ /g;
1182 $text = '';
1183 $index = $item if ($item =~ /\w/);
4213be12 1184 }
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1185
1186 # Take care of the indentation. If shifts and indents are equal, close
1187 # the top shift, since we're about to create an indentation with .IP.
1188 # Also output .PD 0 to turn off spacing between items if this item is
1189 # directly following another one. We only have to do that once for a
1190 # whole chain of items so do it for the second item in the change. Note
1191 # that makespace is what undoes this.
b616daaf 1192 if (@{ $$self{SHIFTS} } == @{ $$self{INDENTS} }) {
9741dab0 1193 $self->output (".RE\n");
b616daaf 1194 pop @{ $$self{SHIFTS} };
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1195 }
1196 $self->output (".PD 0\n") if ($$self{ITEMS} == 1);
3c014959 1197
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1198 # Now, output the item tag itself.
1199 $item = $self->textmapfonts ($item);
1200 $self->output ($self->switchquotes ('.IP', $item, $$self{INDENT}));
1201 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 0;
1202 $$self{ITEMS}++;
1203 $$self{SHIFTWAIT} = 0;
3c014959 1204
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1205 # If body text for this item was included, go ahead and output that now.
1206 if ($text) {
1207 $text =~ s/\s*$/\n/;
1208 $self->makespace;
1209 $self->output ($self->protect ($self->textmapfonts ($text)));
1210 $$self{NEEDSPACE} = 1;
1211 }
1212 $self->outindex ($index ? ('Item', $index) : ());
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1213}
1214
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1215# Dispatch the item commands to the appropriate place.
1216sub cmd_item_bullet { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('bullet', @_) }
1217sub cmd_item_number { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('number', @_) }
1218sub cmd_item_text { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('text', @_) }
1219sub cmd_item_block { my $self = shift; $self->item_common ('block', @_) }
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3c014959 1221##############################################################################
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1222# Backward compatibility
1223##############################################################################
1224
1225# Reset the underlying Pod::Simple object between calls to parse_from_file so
1226# that the same object can be reused to convert multiple pages.
1227sub parse_from_file {
1228 my $self = shift;
1229 $self->reinit;
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1230
1231 # Fake the old cutting option to Pod::Parser. This fiddings with internal
1232 # Pod::Simple state and is quite ugly; we need a better approach.
1233 if (ref ($_[0]) eq 'HASH') {
1234 my $opts = shift @_;
1235 if (defined ($$opts{-cutting}) && !$$opts{-cutting}) {
1236 $$self{in_pod} = 1;
1237 $$self{last_was_blank} = 1;
1238 }
1239 }
1240
1241 # Do the work.
8f202758 1242 my $retval = $self->SUPER::parse_from_file (@_);
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1243
1244 # Flush output, since Pod::Simple doesn't do this. Ideally we should also
1245 # close the file descriptor if we had to open one, but we can't easily
1246 # figure this out.
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1247 my $fh = $self->output_fh ();
1248 my $oldfh = select $fh;
1249 my $oldflush = $|;
1250 $| = 1;
1251 print $fh '';
1252 $| = $oldflush;
1253 select $oldfh;
1254 return $retval;
1255}
1256
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1257# Pod::Simple failed to provide this backward compatibility function, so
1258# implement it ourselves. File handles are one of the inputs that
1259# parse_from_file supports.
1260sub parse_from_filehandle {
1261 my $self = shift;
1262 $self->parse_from_file (@_);
1263}
1264
8f202758 1265##############################################################################
b7ae008f 1266# Translation tables
3c014959 1267##############################################################################
9741dab0 1268
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1269# The following table is adapted from Tom Christiansen's pod2man. It assumes
1270# that the standard preamble has already been printed, since that's what
1271# defines all of the accent marks. We really want to do something better than
1272# this when *roff actually supports other character sets itself, since these
1273# results are pretty poor.
1274#
1275# This only works in an ASCII world. What to do in a non-ASCII world is very
1276# unclear.
1277@ESCAPES{0xA0 .. 0xFF} = (
1278 "\\ ", undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef,
1279 undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, "\\%", undef, undef,
9741dab0 1280
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1281 undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef,
1282 undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef, undef,
9741dab0 1283
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1284 "A\\*`", "A\\*'", "A\\*^", "A\\*~", "A\\*:", "A\\*o", "\\*(AE", "C\\*,",
1285 "E\\*`", "E\\*'", "E\\*^", "E\\*:", "I\\*`", "I\\*'", "I\\*^", "I\\*:",
9741dab0 1286
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1287 "\\*(D-", "N\\*~", "O\\*`", "O\\*'", "O\\*^", "O\\*~", "O\\*:", undef,
1288 "O\\*/", "U\\*`", "U\\*'", "U\\*^", "U\\*:", "Y\\*'", "\\*(Th", "\\*8",
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1290 "a\\*`", "a\\*'", "a\\*^", "a\\*~", "a\\*:", "a\\*o", "\\*(ae", "c\\*,",
1291 "e\\*`", "e\\*'", "e\\*^", "e\\*:", "i\\*`", "i\\*'", "i\\*^", "i\\*:",
3c014959 1292
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1293 "\\*(d-", "n\\*~", "o\\*`", "o\\*'", "o\\*^", "o\\*~", "o\\*:", undef,
1294 "o\\*/" , "u\\*`", "u\\*'", "u\\*^", "u\\*:", "y\\*'", "\\*(th", "y\\*:",
1295) if ASCII;
3c014959 1296
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1297# Make sure that at least this works even outside of ASCII.
1298$ESCAPES{ord("\\")} = "\\e";
1299
1300##############################################################################
1301# Premable
1302##############################################################################
1303
1304# The following is the static preamble which starts all *roff output we
1305# generate. It's completely static except for the font to use as a
1306# fixed-width font, which is designed by @CFONT@, and the left and right
1307# quotes to use for C<> text, designated by @LQOUTE@ and @RQUOTE@.
1308sub preamble_template {
1309 return <<'----END OF PREAMBLE----';
1310.de Sh \" Subsection heading
1311.br
1312.if t .Sp
1313.ne 5
1314.PP
1315\fB\\$1\fR
1316.PP
1317..
1318.de Sp \" Vertical space (when we can't use .PP)
1319.if t .sp .5v
1320.if n .sp
1321..
1322.de Vb \" Begin verbatim text
1323.ft @CFONT@
1324.nf
1325.ne \\$1
1326..
1327.de Ve \" End verbatim text
1328.ft R
1329.fi
1330..
1331.\" Set up some character translations and predefined strings. \*(-- will
1332.\" give an unbreakable dash, \*(PI will give pi, \*(L" will give a left
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1333.\" double quote, and \*(R" will give a right double quote. \*(C+ will
1334.\" give a nicer C++. Capital omega is used to do unbreakable dashes and
1335.\" therefore won't be available. \*(C` and \*(C' expand to `' in nroff,
1336.\" nothing in troff, for use with C<>.
1337.tr \(*W-
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1338.ds C+ C\v'-.1v'\h'-1p'\s-2+\h'-1p'+\s0\v'.1v'\h'-1p'
1339.ie n \{\
1340. ds -- \(*W-
1341. ds PI pi
1342. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=24u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-12u'-\" diablo 10 pitch
1343. if (\n(.H=4u)&(1m=20u) .ds -- \(*W\h'-12u'\(*W\h'-8u'-\" diablo 12 pitch
1344. ds L" ""
1345. ds R" ""
1346. ds C` @LQUOTE@
1347. ds C' @RQUOTE@
1348'br\}
1349.el\{\
1350. ds -- \|\(em\|
1351. ds PI \(*p
1352. ds L" ``
1353. ds R" ''
1354'br\}
1355.\"
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1356.\" Escape single quotes in literal strings from groff's Unicode transform.
1357.ie \n(.g .ds Aq \(aq
1358.el .ds Aq '
1359.\"
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1360.\" If the F register is turned on, we'll generate index entries on stderr for
1361.\" titles (.TH), headers (.SH), subsections (.Sh), items (.Ip), and index
1362.\" entries marked with X<> in POD. Of course, you'll have to process the
1363.\" output yourself in some meaningful fashion.
40dcca8a 1364.ie \nF \{\
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1365. de IX
1366. tm Index:\\$1\t\\n%\t"\\$2"
1367..
1368. nr % 0
1369. rr F
1370.\}
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1371.el \{\
1372. de IX
1373..
1374.\}
b7ae008f 1375.\"
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1376.\" Accent mark definitions (@(#)ms.acc 1.5 88/02/08 SMI; from UCB 4.2).
1377.\" Fear. Run. Save yourself. No user-serviceable parts.
1378. \" fudge factors for nroff and troff
1379.if n \{\
1380. ds #H 0
1381. ds #V .8m
1382. ds #F .3m
1383. ds #[ \f1
1384. ds #] \fP
1385.\}
1386.if t \{\
1387. ds #H ((1u-(\\\\n(.fu%2u))*.13m)
1388. ds #V .6m
1389. ds #F 0
1390. ds #[ \&
1391. ds #] \&
1392.\}
1393. \" simple accents for nroff and troff
1394.if n \{\
1395. ds ' \&
1396. ds ` \&
1397. ds ^ \&
1398. ds , \&
1399. ds ~ ~
1400. ds /
1401.\}
1402.if t \{\
1403. ds ' \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\'\h"|\\n:u"
1404. ds ` \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\`\h'|\\n:u'
1405. ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'^\h'|\\n:u'
1406. ds , \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10)',\h'|\\n:u'
1407. ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu-\*(#H-.1m)'~\h'|\\n:u'
1408. ds / \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H)'\z\(sl\h'|\\n:u'
1409.\}
1410. \" troff and (daisy-wheel) nroff accents
1411.ds : \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*8/10-\*(#H+.1m+\*(#F)'\v'-\*(#V'\z.\h'.2m+\*(#F'.\h'|\\n:u'\v'\*(#V'
1412.ds 8 \h'\*(#H'\(*b\h'-\*(#H'
1413.ds o \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu+\w'\(de'u-\*(#H)/2u'\v'-.3n'\*(#[\z\(de\v'.3n'\h'|\\n:u'\*(#]
1414.ds d- \h'\*(#H'\(pd\h'-\w'~'u'\v'-.25m'\f2\(hy\fP\v'.25m'\h'-\*(#H'
1415.ds D- D\\k:\h'-\w'D'u'\v'-.11m'\z\(hy\v'.11m'\h'|\\n:u'
1416.ds th \*(#[\v'.3m'\s+1I\s-1\v'-.3m'\h'-(\w'I'u*2/3)'\s-1o\s+1\*(#]
1417.ds Th \*(#[\s+2I\s-2\h'-\w'I'u*3/5'\v'-.3m'o\v'.3m'\*(#]
1418.ds ae a\h'-(\w'a'u*4/10)'e
1419.ds Ae A\h'-(\w'A'u*4/10)'E
1420. \" corrections for vroff
1421.if v .ds ~ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*9/10-\*(#H)'\s-2\u~\d\s+2\h'|\\n:u'
1422.if v .ds ^ \\k:\h'-(\\n(.wu*10/11-\*(#H)'\v'-.4m'^\v'.4m'\h'|\\n:u'
1423. \" for low resolution devices (crt and lpr)
1424.if \n(.H>23 .if \n(.V>19 \
1425\{\
1426. ds : e
1427. ds 8 ss
1428. ds o a
1429. ds d- d\h'-1'\(ga
1430. ds D- D\h'-1'\(hy
1431. ds th \o'bp'
1432. ds Th \o'LP'
1433. ds ae ae
1434. ds Ae AE
1435.\}
1436.rm #[ #] #H #V #F C
1437----END OF PREAMBLE----
1438#`# for cperl-mode
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1439}
1440
3c014959 1441##############################################################################
5e2effed 1442# Module return value and documentation
3c014959 1443##############################################################################
9741dab0 1444
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14451;
1446__END__
1447
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1448=head1 NAME
1449
1450Pod::Man - Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
1451
1452=head1 SYNOPSIS
1453
1454 use Pod::Man;
1455 my $parser = Pod::Man->new (release => $VERSION, section => 8);
1456
1457 # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
b7ae008f 1458 $parser->parse_file (\*STDIN);
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1459
1460 # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.1.
1461 $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.1');
1462
1463=head1 DESCRIPTION
1464
1465Pod::Man is a module to convert documentation in the POD format (the
1466preferred language for documenting Perl) into *roff input using the man
1467macro set. The resulting *roff code is suitable for display on a terminal
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1468using L<nroff(1)>, normally via L<man(1)>, or printing using L<troff(1)>.
1469It is conventionally invoked using the driver script B<pod2man>, but it can
1470also be used directly.
9741dab0 1471
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1472As a derived class from Pod::Simple, Pod::Man supports the same methods and
1473interfaces. See L<Pod::Simple> for all the details.
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1474
1475new() can take options, in the form of key/value pairs that control the
1476behavior of the parser. See below for details.
1477
1478If no options are given, Pod::Man uses the name of the input file with any
1479trailing C<.pod>, C<.pm>, or C<.pl> stripped as the man page title, to
1480section 1 unless the file ended in C<.pm> in which case it defaults to
1481section 3, to a centered title of "User Contributed Perl Documentation", to
1482a centered footer of the Perl version it is run with, and to a left-hand
1483footer of the modification date of its input (or the current date if given
1484STDIN for input).
1485
1486Pod::Man assumes that your *roff formatters have a fixed-width font named
1487CW. If yours is called something else (like CR), use the C<fixed> option to
1488specify it. This generally only matters for troff output for printing.
1489Similarly, you can set the fonts used for bold, italic, and bold italic
1490fixed-width output.
1491
1492Besides the obvious pod conversions, Pod::Man also takes care of formatting
bf202ccd 1493func(), func(3), and simple variable references like $foo or @bar so you
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1494don't have to use code escapes for them; complex expressions like
1495C<$fred{'stuff'}> will still need to be escaped, though. It also translates
1496dashes that aren't used as hyphens into en dashes, makes long dashes--like
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1497this--into proper em dashes, fixes "paired quotes," makes C++ look right,
1498puts a little space between double underbars, makes ALLCAPS a teeny bit
1499smaller in B<troff>, and escapes stuff that *roff treats as special so that
1500you don't have to.
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1501
1502The recognized options to new() are as follows. All options take a single
1503argument.
1504
1505=over 4
1506
1507=item center
1508
1509Sets the centered page header to use instead of "User Contributed Perl
1510Documentation".
1511
1512=item date
1513
1514Sets the left-hand footer. By default, the modification date of the input
1515file will be used, or the current date if stat() can't find that file (the
1516case if the input is from STDIN), and the date will be formatted as
1517YYYY-MM-DD.
1518
1519=item fixed
1520
1521The fixed-width font to use for vertabim text and code. Defaults to CW.
bf202ccd 1522Some systems may want CR instead. Only matters for B<troff> output.
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1523
1524=item fixedbold
1525
1526Bold version of the fixed-width font. Defaults to CB. Only matters for
bf202ccd 1527B<troff> output.
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1528
1529=item fixeditalic
1530
1531Italic version of the fixed-width font (actually, something of a misnomer,
1532since most fixed-width fonts only have an oblique version, not an italic
bf202ccd 1533version). Defaults to CI. Only matters for B<troff> output.
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1534
1535=item fixedbolditalic
1536
1537Bold italic (probably actually oblique) version of the fixed-width font.
1538Pod::Man doesn't assume you have this, and defaults to CB. Some systems
bf202ccd 1539(such as Solaris) have this font available as CX. Only matters for B<troff>
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1540output.
1541
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1542=item name
1543
1544Set the name of the manual page. Without this option, the manual name is
1545set to the uppercased base name of the file being converted unless the
1546manual section is 3, in which case the path is parsed to see if it is a Perl
1547module path. If it is, a path like C<.../lib/Pod/Man.pm> is converted into
1548a name like C<Pod::Man>. This option, if given, overrides any automatic
1549determination of the name.
1550
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1551=item quotes
1552
1553Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text. If the value is a
1554single character, it is used as both the left and right quote; if it is two
1555characters, the first character is used as the left quote and the second as
1556the right quoted; and if it is four characters, the first two are used as
1557the left quote and the second two as the right quote.
1558
1559This may also be set to the special value C<none>, in which case no quote
1560marks are added around CE<lt>> text (but the font is still changed for troff
1561output).
1562
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1563=item release
1564
1565Set the centered footer. By default, this is the version of Perl you run
bf202ccd 1566Pod::Man under. Note that some system an macro sets assume that the
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1567centered footer will be a modification date and will prepend something like
1568"Last modified: "; if this is the case, you may want to set C<release> to
1569the last modified date and C<date> to the version number.
1570
1571=item section
1572
1573Set the section for the C<.TH> macro. The standard section numbering
1574convention is to use 1 for user commands, 2 for system calls, 3 for
1575functions, 4 for devices, 5 for file formats, 6 for games, 7 for
1576miscellaneous information, and 8 for administrator commands. There is a lot
1577of variation here, however; some systems (like Solaris) use 4 for file
1578formats, 5 for miscellaneous information, and 7 for devices. Still others
1579use 1m instead of 8, or some mix of both. About the only section numbers
1580that are reliably consistent are 1, 2, and 3.
1581
1582By default, section 1 will be used unless the file ends in .pm in which case
1583section 3 will be selected.
1584
1585=back
1586
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1587The standard Pod::Simple method parse_file() takes one argument naming the
1588POD file to read from. By default, the output is sent to STDOUT, but this
1589can be changed with the output_fd() method.
1590
1591The standard Pod::Simple method parse_from_file() takes up to two
1592arguments, the first being the input file to read POD from and the second
1593being the file to write the formatted output to.
1594
1595You can also call parse_lines() to parse an array of lines or
1596parse_string_document() to parse a document already in memory. To put the
1597output into a string instead of a file handle, call the output_string()
1598method. See L<Pod::Simple> for the specific details.
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1600=head1 DIAGNOSTICS
1601
1602=over 4
1603
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1605
1606(F) You specified a *roff font (using C<fixed>, C<fixedbold>, etc.) that
1607wasn't either one or two characters. Pod::Man doesn't support *roff fonts
1608longer than two characters, although some *roff extensions do (the canonical
bf202ccd 1609versions of B<nroff> and B<troff> don't either).
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1611=item Invalid quote specification "%s"
1612
1613(F) The quote specification given (the quotes option to the constructor) was
1614invalid. A quote specification must be one, two, or four characters long.
1615
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1616=back
1617
1618=head1 BUGS
1619
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1620Eight-bit input data isn't handled at all well at present. The correct
1621approach would be to map EE<lt>E<gt> escapes to the appropriate UTF-8
1622characters and then do a translation pass on the output according to the
1623user-specified output character set. Unfortunately, we can't send eight-bit
1624data directly to the output unless the user says this is okay, since some
1625vendor *roff implementations can't handle eight-bit data. If the *roff
1626implementation can, however, that's far superior to the current hacked
1627characters that only work under troff.
1628
1629There is currently no way to turn off the guesswork that tries to format
1630unmarked text appropriately, and sometimes it isn't wanted (particularly
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1631when using POD to document something other than Perl). Most of the work
1632towards fixing this has now been done, however, and all that's still needed
1633is a user interface.
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1634
1635The NAME section should be recognized specially and index entries emitted
1636for everything in that section. This would have to be deferred until the
1637next section, since extraneous things in NAME tends to confuse various man
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1638page processors. Currently, no index entries are emitted for anything in
1639NAME.
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9741dab0 1641Pod::Man doesn't handle font names longer than two characters. Neither do
bf202ccd 1642most B<troff> implementations, but GNU troff does as an extension. It would
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1643be nice to support as an option for those who want to use it.
1644
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1645The preamble added to each output file is rather verbose, and most of it
1646is only necessary in the presence of non-ASCII characters. It would
1647ideally be nice if all of those definitions were only output if needed,
1648perhaps on the fly as the characters are used.
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1650Pod::Man is excessively slow.
1651
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1652=head1 CAVEATS
1653
1654The handling of hyphens and em dashes is somewhat fragile, and one may get
1655the wrong one under some circumstances. This should only matter for
1656B<troff> output.
1657
1658When and whether to use small caps is somewhat tricky, and Pod::Man doesn't
1659necessarily get it right.
1660
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1661Converting neutral double quotes to properly matched double quotes doesn't
1662work unless there are no formatting codes between the quote marks. This
1663only matters for troff output.
1664
1665=head1 AUTHOR
1666
1667Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>, based I<very> heavily on the original
1668B<pod2man> by Tom Christiansen <tchrist@mox.perl.com>. The modifications to
1669work with Pod::Simple instead of Pod::Parser were originally contributed by
1670Sean Burke (but I've since hacked them beyond recognition and all bugs are
1671mine).
1672
1673=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
1674
40dcca8a 1675Copyright 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007
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1676by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.
1677
1678This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
1679under the same terms as Perl itself.
1680
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1681=head1 SEE ALSO
1682
b7ae008f 1683L<Pod::Simple>, L<perlpod(1)>, L<pod2man(1)>, L<nroff(1)>, L<troff(1)>,
bf202ccd 1684L<man(1)>, L<man(7)>
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1685
1686Ossanna, Joseph F., and Brian W. Kernighan. "Troff User's Manual,"
1687Computing Science Technical Report No. 54, AT&T Bell Laboratories. This is
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1688the best documentation of standard B<nroff> and B<troff>. At the time of
1689this writing, it's available at
1690L<http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/cm/cs/cstr.html>.
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1692The man page documenting the man macro set may be L<man(5)> instead of
1693L<man(7)> on your system. Also, please see L<pod2man(1)> for extensive
1694documentation on writing manual pages if you've not done it before and
1695aren't familiar with the conventions.
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1697The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
1698L<http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
1699Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
1700
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