NAME LaTeX::Pod - Transform LaTeX source files to POD (Plain old documentation) SYNOPSIS use LaTeX::Pod; my $parser = LaTeX::Pod->new('/path/to/latex/source'); print $parser->convert; DESCRIPTION "LaTeX::Pod" converts LaTeX sources to Perl's POD (Plain old documentation) format. Currently only a subset of the available LaTeX language is suppported - see below for detailed information. CONSTRUCTOR new The constructor requires that the path to the latex source must be declared: $parser = LaTeX::Pod->new('/path/to/latex/source'); Returns the parser object. METHODS convert There is only one public method available, "convert": $parser->convert; Returns the POD document as string. SUPPORTED LANGUAGE SUBSET It's not much, but there's more to come: * chapters * sections/subsections/subsub... * verbatim blocks * itemized lists * plain text * bold/italic/code font tags * umlauts IMPLEMENTATION DETAILS The current implementation is a bit *flaky* because "LaTeX::TOM", the framework being used for parsing the LaTeX nodes, makes a clear distinction between various types of nodes. As example, an \item directive has quite often a separate text which is associated with former one. And they can't be detected without some kind of sophisticated "lookbehind", which is what is done. The author tried to implement a *context-sensitive* awareness for "LaTeX::Pod". He did so by setting which node has been seen before the current one in order to be able to call the appropriate routine for a LaTeX directive with two or more nodes. Furthermore, "LaTeX::Pod" registers which node it has previously encountered and unregisters this information when it made use of it. Considering that the POD language has a limited subset of commands, the overhead of keeping track of node occurences seems almost bearable. The POD processed may consist of too many newlines before undergoing the scrubbing where leading and trailing newlines will be truncated. SEE ALSO LaTeX::TOM AUTHOR Steven Schubiger LICENSE This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See