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NAME

       pod2latex - convert pod documentation to latex format

SYNOPSIS

         pod2latex *.pm

         pod2latex -out mytex.tex *.pod

         pod2latex -full -sections 'DESCRIPTION|NAME' SomeDir

         pod2latex -prefile h.tex -postfile t.tex my.pod

DESCRIPTION

       "pod2latex" is a program to convert POD format documentation (perlpod) into latex. It can
       process multiple input documents at a time and either generate a latex file per input
       document or a single combined output file.

OPTIONS AND ARGUMENTS

       This section describes the supported command line options. Minimum matching is supported.

       -out
           Name of the output file to be used. If there are multiple input pods it is assumed
           that the intention is to write all translated output into a single file. ".tex" is
           appended if not present.  If the argument is not supplied, a single document will be
           created for each input file.

       -full
           Creates a complete "latex" file that can be processed immediately (unless
           "=for/=begin" directives are used that rely on extra packages).  Table of contents and
           index generation commands are included in the wrapper "latex" code.

       -sections
           Specify pod sections to include (or remove if negated) in the translation.  See
           "SECTION SPECIFICATIONS" in Pod::Select for the format to use for section-spec. This
           option may be given multiple times on the command line.This is identical to the
           similar option in the "podselect()" command.

       -modify
           This option causes the output "latex" to be slightly modified from the input pod such
           that when a "=head1 NAME" is encountered a section is created containing the actual
           pod name (rather than NAME) and all subsequent "=head1" directives are treated as
           subsections. This has the advantage that the description of a module will be in its
           own section which is helpful for including module descriptions in documentation.  Also
           forces "latex" label and index entries to be prefixed by the name of the module.

       -h1level
           Specifies the "latex" section that is equivalent to a "H1" pod directive. This is an
           integer between 0 and 5 with 0 equivalent to a "latex" chapter, 1 equivalent to a
           "latex" section etc. The default is 1 ("H1" equivalent to a latex section).

       -help
           Print a brief help message and exit.

       -man
           Print the manual page and exit.

       -verbose
           Print information messages as each document is processed.

       -preamble
           A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple values are supported and
           appended in order separated by "\n".  See -prefile for reading the preamble from a
           file.

       -postamble
           A user supplied postamble for the LaTeX code. Multiple values are supported and
           appended in order separated by "\n".  See -postfile for reading the postamble from a
           file.

       -prefile
           A user-supplied preamble for the LaTeX code to be read from the named file. Multiple
           values are supported and appended in order. See -preamble.

       -postfile
           A user-supplied postamble for the LaTeX code to be read from the named file. Multiple
           values are supported and appended in order. See -postamble.

BUGS

       Known bugs are:

       •   Cross references between documents are not resolved when multiple pod documents are
           converted into a single output "latex" file.

       •   Functions and variables are not automatically recognized and they will therefore not
           be marked up in any special way unless instructed by an explicit pod command.

SEE ALSO

       Pod::LaTeX

AUTHOR

       Tim Jenness <tjenness@cpan.org>

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

       Copyright (C) 2000, 2003, 2004 Tim Jenness. All Rights Reserved.