shore up pod2latex shortcomings, and a Pod::Parser fix (from

Robin Barker)

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@5612

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/pod/pod2latex.PL b/pod/pod2latex.PL
index feed98e923..71115f3f21 100644
--- a/pod/pod2latex.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2latex.PL
@@ -101,7 +101,6 @@ print OUT <<'!NO!SUBS!';
 # Translation of HTML escapes of various European accents might be wrong.
 
 
-$/ = "";			# record separator is blank lines
 # TeX special characters.
 ##$tt_ables = "!@*()-=+|;:'\"`,./?<>";
 $backslash_escapables = "#\$%&{}_";
@@ -119,13 +118,16 @@ $indent = 0;
 
 # parse the pods, produce LaTeX.
 
-open(POD,"<$ARGV[0]") || die "cant open $ARGV[0]";
+use Pod::Plainer;
+open(POD,"-|") or Pod::Plainer -> new() -> parse_from_file($ARGV[0]), exit;
+
 ($pod=$ARGV[0]) =~ s/\.pod$//;
 open(LATEX,">$pod.tex");
 &do_hdr();
 
 $cutting = 1;
 $begun = "";
+$/ = "";			# record separator is blank lines
 while (<POD>) {
     if ($cutting) {
 	next unless /^=/;
@@ -314,6 +316,8 @@ while (<POD>) {
 	    } 
 	}gex;
 
+	s/X<([^<>]*)>/\\index{$1}/g;
+
 	s/Z<>/\\&/g;		# the "don't format me" thing
 
 	# comes last because not subject to reprocessing
@@ -416,7 +420,7 @@ while (<POD>) {
 		}
 		print LATEX  "\n\\begin{$listingcmd}\n";
 		push(@listingcmd,$listingcmd);
-	    } elsif ($lastcmd ne 'item') {
+	    } elsif ( !@listingcmd ) { 
 		warn "Illegal '=item' command without preceding 'over':";
 		warn "=item $bareitem";
 	    }