NAME
Pod::Manual - Aggregates several PODs into a single manual
VERSION
This document describes Pod::Manual version 0.08
This module is still in early development and must be considered as alpha quality. Use with caution.
SYNOPSIS
use Pod::Manual;
my $manual = Pod::Manual->new({ title => 'Pod::Manual' });
$manual->add_chapter( 'Pod::Manual' );
my $docbook = $manual->as_docbook;DESCRIPTION
The goal of Pod::Manual is to gather the pod of several modules into a comprehensive manual. Its primary objective is to generate a document that can be printed, but it also allow to output the document into other formats (e.g., docbook).
METHODS
new( %options )
Creates a new manual. Several options can be passed to the constructor:
- title => $title
-
Sets the title of the manual to $title.
- ignore_sections => \@section_names
-
When importing pods, discards any section having its title listed in @section_names.
add_chapter( $module, \%options )
$manual->add_chapter( 'Pod::Manual', { set_title => 1 } );Adds the pod of $module to the manual.
- set_title
-
If true, uses the shortened title of the chapter as the title of the manual.
add_chapters( @modules, \%options )
$manual->add_chapters( 'Some::Module', 'Some::Other::Module' )Adds the pod of several modules to the manual.
as_docbook( { css => $filename } )
print $manual->as_docbook({ css => 'stylesheet.css' });Returns the manual in a docbook format. If the option css is given, a 'xml-stylesheet' PI pointing to $filename will be added to the document.
as_latex
print $manual->as_latex;Returns the manual in a LaTeX format.
save_as_pdf( $filename )
$manual->save_as_pdf( '/path/to/document.pdf' );Saves the manual as a pdf file. Several temporary files will be created (and later on cleaned up) in the same directory. If any of those files already exist, the method will abort.
Returns 1 if the pdf has been created, 0 otherwise.
NOTE: this function requires to have TeTeX installed and pdflatex accessible via the $PATH.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
As this is a preliminary release, a lot of both.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-pod-manual@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
REPOSITORY
Pod::Manual's development git repository can be accessed at http://babyl.dyndns.org/git/pod-manual.git.
AUTHOR
Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>
LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2007, Yanick Champoux <yanick@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See perlartistic.
DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY
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