podlators 1.06 released

Message-ID: <ylwvcosl4l.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu>

p4raw-id: //depot/perl@8259

1 files changed, 14 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/pod/pod2text.PL b/pod/pod2text.PL
index b4965cb00f..7b5727decc 100644
--- a/pod/pod2text.PL
+++ b/pod/pod2text.PL
@@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ my %options;
 $options{sentence} = 0;
 Getopt::Long::config ('bundling');
 GetOptions (\%options, 'alt|a', 'color|c', 'help|h', 'indent|i=i',
-            'loose|l', 'quotes|q=s', 'sentence|s', 'termcap|t',
-            'width|w=i') or exit 1;
+            'loose|l', 'overstrike|o', 'quotes|q=s', 'sentence|s',
+            'termcap|t', 'width|w=i') or exit 1;
 pod2usage (1) if $options{help};
 
 # Figure out what formatter we're going to use.  -c overrides -t.
@@ -89,8 +89,11 @@ if ($options{color}) {
 } elsif ($options{termcap}) {
     $formatter = 'Pod::Text::Termcap';
     require Pod::Text::Termcap;
+} elsif ($options{overstrike}) {
+    $formatter = 'Pod::Text::Overstrike';
+    require Pod::Text::Overstrike;
 }
-delete @options{'color', 'termcap'};
+delete @options{'color', 'termcap', 'overstrike'};
 
 # Initialize and run the formatter.
 my $parser = $formatter->new (%options);
@@ -104,7 +107,7 @@ pod2text - Convert POD data to formatted ASCII text
 
 =head1 SYNOPSIS
 
-pod2text [B<-aclst>] [B<-i> I<indent>] [B<-q> I<quotes>] [B<-w> I<width>]
+pod2text [B<-aclost>] [B<-i> I<indent>] [B<-q> I<quotes>] [B<-w> I<width>]
 [I<input> [I<output>]]
 
 pod2text B<-h>
@@ -150,6 +153,13 @@ printed after C<=head1>, although one is still printed after C<=head2>,
 because this is the expected formatting for manual pages; if you're
 formatting arbitrary text documents, using this option is recommended.
 
+=item B<-o>, B<--overstrike>
+
+Format the output with overstruck printing.  Bold text is rendered as
+character, backspace, character.  Italics and file names are rendered as
+underscore, backspace, character.  Many pagers, such as B<less>, know how
+to convert this to bold or underlined text.
+
 =item B<-q> I<quotes>, B<--quotes>=I<quotes>
 
 Sets the quote marks used to surround CE<lt>> text to I<quotes>.  If