MirBSD manpage: Pod::Text::Overstrike(3p)

Pod::Text::OverstPerl(Programmers ReferePod::Text::Overstrike(3p)

NAME

     Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted over-
     strike 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 over-
     struck (character, backspace, character) and characters in
     underlined text are converted to overstruck underscores
     (underscore, backspace, character).  This format was origi-
     nally designed for hardcopy terminals and/or lineprinters,
     yet is readable on softcopy (CRT) terminals.

     Overstruck text is best viewed by page-at-a-time programs
     that take advantage of the terminal's stand-out and under-
     line 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.

SEE ALSO

     Pod::Text, Pod::Parser

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

AUTHOR

     Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>, using the framework created
     by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

     Copyright 2000 by Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>. Copyright
     2001 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.

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

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