NAME

       Pod::Thread - Convert POD data to the HTML macro language thread

SYNOPSIS

           use Pod::Thread;
           my $parser = Pod::Thread->new;

           # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
           $parser->parse_from_filehandle;

           # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.th.
           $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.th');

DESCRIPTION

       Pod::Thread is a module that can convert documentation in the POD format (the preferred
       language for documenting Perl) into thread, an HTML macro language.  It lets the converter
       from thread to HTML handle some of the annoying parts of conversion to HTML.

       Pod::Thread is primarily intended for use with the DocKnot static site generator (the
       App::DocKnot::Spin module), which implements the thread macro language.  This module
       provides POD formatting into thread and thus to HTML.

       As a derived class from Pod::Simple, Pod::Thread supports the same methods and interfaces.
       Briefly, one creates a new parser with Pod::Thread->new(), sets the output destination
       with either output_fh() or output_string(), and then calls one of parse_file(),
       parse_string_document(), or parse_lines().  See Pod::Simple for all the details.

       new() can take the following options, in the form of key/value pairs, to control the
       behavior of the formatter:

       contents
           If set to a true value, output a table of contents section at the beginning of the
           document.  Only top-level headings will be shown.

       navbar
           If set to a true value, output a navigation bar at the beginning of the document with
           links to all top-level headings.

       style
           Sets the name of the style sheet to use.  If not given, no reference to a style sheet
           will be included in the generated page.

       title
           The title of the document.  If this is set, it will be used rather than looking for
           and parsing a NAME section in the POD file, and NAME sections will no longer be
           required or special.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Cannot write to output: %s
           (F) An error occurred while attempting to write the thread result to the configured
           output string or file handle.

       POD document had syntax errors
           (F) The POD document being formatted had syntax errors.

AUTHOR

       Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>, based heavily on Pod::Text from podlators.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2002, 2008-2009, 2013, 2021 Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>

       Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this
       software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software
       without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge,
       publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons
       to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

       The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
       substantial portions of the Software.

       THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS OR IMPLIED,
       INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE AND NONINFRINGEMENT.  IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE LIABLE
       FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, TORT OR
       OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER
       DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.

SEE ALSO

       App::DocKnot::Spin, Pod::Simple, docknot(1)

       This module is part of the Pod-Thread distribution.  The current version of Pod-Thread is
       available from CPAN, or directly from its web site at
       <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/pod-thread/>.

       DocKnot is available as the App-DocKnot distribution from CPAN, or directly from its web
       site at <https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/docknot/>.