NAME

       Pod::Text::Termcap - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes

SYNOPSIS

           use Pod::Text::Termcap;
           my $parser = Pod::Text::Termcap->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::Termcap is a simple subclass of Pod::Text that highlights output text using the
       correct termcap escape sequences for the current terminal.  Apart from the format codes,
       it in all ways functions like Pod::Text.  See Pod::Text for details and available options.

       This module uses Term::Cap to find the correct terminal settings.  See the documentation
       of that module for how it finds terminal database information and how to override that
       behavior if necessary.  If unable to find control strings for bold and underscore
       formatting, that formatting is skipped, resulting in the same output as Pod::Text.

COMPATIBILITY

       Pod::Text::Termcap 0.04 (based on Pod::Parser) was the first version of this module
       included with Perl, in Perl 5.6.0.

       The current API based on Pod::Simple was added in Pod::Text::Termcap 2.00.
       Pod::Text::Termcap 2.01 was included in Perl 5.9.3, the first version of Perl to
       incorporate those changes.

       Several problems with wrapping and line length were fixed as recently as
       Pod::Text::Termcap 4.11, included in Perl 5.29.1.

       Pod::Text::Termcap 4.13 stopped setting the TERMPATH environment variable during module
       load.  It also stopped falling back on VT100 escape sequences if Term::Cap was not able to
       find usable escape sequences, instead producing unformatted output for better results on
       dumb terminals.  The next version to be incorporated into Perl, 4.14, was included in Perl
       5.31.8.

       This module inherits its API and most behavior from Pod::Text, so the details in
       "COMPATIBILITY" in Pod::Text also apply.  Pod::Text and Pod::Text::Termcap have had the
       same module version since 4.00, included in Perl 5.23.7.  (They unfortunately diverge in
       confusing ways prior to that.)

AUTHOR

       Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 1999, 2001-2002, 2004, 2006, 2008-2009, 2014-2015, 2018-2019, 2022 Russ Allbery
       <rra@cpan.org>

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

SEE ALSO

       Pod::Text, Pod::Simple, Term::Cap

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