NAME

Meta::Tool::Groff - run groff for you.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2001, 2002 Mark Veltzer; All rights reserved.

LICENSE

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

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. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, USA.

DETAILS

MANIFEST: Groff.pm
PROJECT: meta
VERSION: 0.02

SYNOPSIS

package foo;
use Meta::Tool::Groff qw();
my($object)=Meta::Tool::Groff->new();
my($result)=$object->method();

DESCRIPTION

This module eases the job of running groff for you.

FUNCTIONS

process($)
get_oneliner($)

FUNCTION DOCUMENTATION

process($)

This method will run groff on a piece of data and will return the result.

get_oneliner($)

This method will get the one line description from the content of a manual page. If this method is unable to extract the one line description (problem with the content of the troff manual page) then it will return "undef".

BUGS

None.

AUTHOR

Name: Mark Veltzer
Email: mark2776@yahoo.com
WWW: http://www.geocities.com/mark2776
CPAN id: VELTZER

HISTORY

0.00 MV import tests
0.01 MV dbman package creation
0.02 MV more thumbnail issues

SEE ALSO

Nothing.

TODO

-is there a way (using a CPAN module?) to feed the string into Groff without writing it first into a file ?

-the oneliner method doesn't work right - get it to work right.