NAME

       Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo - Base for Pod::Perldoc formatters

SYNOPSIS

           package Pod::Perldoc::ToMyFormat;

           use base qw( Pod::Perldoc::BaseTo );
           ...

DESCRIPTION

       This package is meant as a base of Pod::Perldoc formatters, like Pod::Perldoc::ToText,
       Pod::Perldoc::ToMan, etc.

       It provides default implementations for the methods

           is_pageable
           write_with_binmode
           output_extension
           _perldoc_elem

       The concrete formatter must implement

           new
           parse_from_file

SEE ALSO

       perldoc

COPYRIGHT AND DISCLAIMERS

       Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sean M. Burke.

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

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty;
       without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

AUTHOR

       Current maintainer: Mark Allen "<mallen@cpan.org>"

       Past contributions from: brian d foy "<bdfoy@cpan.org>" Adriano R. Ferreira
       "<ferreira@cpan.org>", Sean M. Burke "<sburke@cpan.org>"