require 5; package Pod::Perldoc::ToMan; use strict; use warnings; # This class is unlike ToText.pm et al, because we're NOT paging thru # the output in our particular format -- we make the output and # then we run nroff (or whatever) on it, and then page thru the # (plaintext) output of THAT! use base qw(Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo); sub is_pageable { 1 } sub write_with_binmode { 0 } sub output_extension { 'txt' } sub __filter_nroff { shift->_perldoc_elem('__filter_nroff' , @_) } sub __nroffer { shift->_perldoc_elem('__nroffer' , @_) } sub __bindir { shift->_perldoc_elem('__bindir' , @_) } sub __pod2man { shift->_perldoc_elem('__pod2man' , @_) } sub __output_file { shift->_perldoc_elem('__output_file' , @_) } sub center { shift->_perldoc_elem('center' , @_) } sub date { shift->_perldoc_elem('date' , @_) } sub fixed { shift->_perldoc_elem('fixed' , @_) } sub fixedbold { shift->_perldoc_elem('fixedbold' , @_) } sub fixeditalic { shift->_perldoc_elem('fixeditalic' , @_) } sub fixedbolditalic { shift->_perldoc_elem('fixedbolditalic', @_) } sub quotes { shift->_perldoc_elem('quotes' , @_) } sub release { shift->_perldoc_elem('release' , @_) } sub section { shift->_perldoc_elem('section' , @_) } sub new { return bless {}, ref($_[0]) || $_[0] } use File::Spec::Functions qw(catfile); sub parse_from_file { my $self = shift; my($file, $outfh) = @_; my $render = $self->{'__nroffer'} || die "no nroffer set!?"; # turn the switches into CLIs my $switches = join ' ', map qq{"--$_=$self->{$_}"}, grep !m/^_/s, keys %$self ; my $command = catfile( ($self->{'__bindir'} || die "no bindir set?!" ), ($self->{'__pod2man'} || die "no pod2man set?!" ), ) . " $switches --lax $file | $render -man" ; # no temp file, just a pipe! # I hear persistent reports that adding a -c switch to $render # solves many people's problems. But I also hear that some mans # don't have a -c switch, so that adding it here would presumably # be a Bad Thing -- sburke@cpan.org $command .= " | col -x" if $^O =~ /hpux/; defined(&Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG) and Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG() and print "About to run $command\n"; ; my $rslt = `$command`; my $err; if( $self->{'__filter_nroff'} ) { defined(&Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG) and &Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG() and print "filter_nroff is set, so filtering...\n"; $rslt = $self->___Do_filter_nroff($rslt); } else { defined(&Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG) and Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG() and print "filter_nroff isn't set, so not filtering.\n"; } if (($err = $?)) { defined(&Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG) and Pod::Perldoc::DEBUG() and print "Nonzero exit ($?) while running $command.\n", "Falling back to Pod::Perldoc::ToPod\n ", ; # A desperate fallthru: require Pod::Perldoc::ToPod; return Pod::Perldoc::ToPod->new->parse_from_file(@_); } else { print $outfh $rslt or die "Can't print to $$self{__output_file}: $!"; } return; } sub ___Do_filter_nroff { my $self = shift; my @data = split /\n{2,}/, shift; shift @data while @data and $data[0] !~ /\S/; # Go to header shift @data if @data and $data[0] =~ /Contributed\s+Perl/; # Skip header pop @data if @data and $data[-1] =~ /^\w/; # Skip footer, like # 28/Jan/99 perl 5.005, patch 53 1 join "\n\n", @data; } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Pod::Perldoc::ToMan - let Perldoc render Pod as man pages =head1 SYNOPSIS perldoc -o man Some::Modulename =head1 DESCRIPTION This is a "plug-in" class that allows Perldoc to use Pod::Man and C for reading Pod pages. The following options are supported: center, date, fixed, fixedbold, fixeditalic, fixedbolditalic, quotes, release, section (Those options are explained in L.) For example: perldoc -o man -w center:Pod Some::Modulename =head1 CAVEAT This module may change to use a different pod-to-nroff formatter class in the future, and this may change what options are supported. =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L =head1 COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke. All rights reserved. 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. =head1 AUTHOR Sean M. Burke C =cut