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Changes for version 5.01 - 2022-12-25

  • Guesswork (formatting rules based on heuristics intended for Perl documentation) can now be disabled or selectively enabled in Pod::Text with the guesswork option (--guesswork to pod2text). This is similar to the support added to Pod::Man in 5.00, except there is only one type of guesswork currently (quoting).
  • Pod::Text suppresses quote marks around some additional cases of Perl code in C<> where the intent had been to suppress the quotes but there were various bugs in the matching regular expressions. This primarily affects function and method calls.
  • Fix an escaping issue in Pod::Man with complex lquote, rquote, and quotes options containing double quotes that caused some double quotes to be incorrectly duplicated.
  • Pod::Man now avoids quoting macro arguments when this is unnecessary.
  • Depend on Pod::Simple 3.26 or later, since Pod::Text now calls its encoding() method.

Documentation

Perl POD style guide
Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text

Modules

Convert POD data to formatted *roff input
Parse an Lltgt formatting code in POD text
Convert POD data to formatted text
Convert POD data to formatted color ASCII text
Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes