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Pod::Simple::Text

NAME

Pod::Simple::Text -- format Pod as plaintext

SYNOPSIS

  1. perl -MPod::Simple::Text -e \
  2. "exit Pod::Simple::Text->filter(shift)->any_errata_seen" \
  3. thingy.pod

DESCRIPTION

This class is a formatter that takes Pod and renders it as wrapped plaintext.

Its wrapping is done by Text::Wrap, so you can change $Text::Wrap::columns as you like.

This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.

SEE ALSO

Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::TextContent, Pod::Text

SUPPORT

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the pod-people@perl.org mail list. Send an empty email to pod-people-subscribe@perl.org to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone git://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <bug-pod-simple@rt.cpan.org>.

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.

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

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty; without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <sburke@cpan.org>. But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

  • Allison Randal allison@perl.org
  • Hans Dieter Pearcey hdp@cpan.org
  • David E. Wheeler dwheeler@cpan.org