—# Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
#
# This was written because the output from:
#
# pod2text Text.pm > plain.txt; less plain.txt
#
# is not as rich as the output from
#
# pod2man Text.pm | nroff -man > fancy.txt; less fancy.txt
#
# and because both Pod::Text::Color and Pod::Text::Termcap are not device
# independent.
#
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-1.0-or-later OR Artistic-1.0-Perl
##############################################################################
# Modules and declarations
##############################################################################
package
Pod::Text::Overstrike v6.0.2;
use
5.012;
use
warnings;
##############################################################################
# Overrides
##############################################################################
# Make level one headings bold, overriding any existing formatting.
sub
cmd_head1 {
my
(
$self
,
$attrs
,
$text
) =
@_
;
$text
=~ s/\s+$//;
$text
=
$self
->strip_format (
$text
);
$text
=~ s/(.)/$1\b$1/g;
return
$self
->SUPER::cmd_head1 (
$attrs
,
$text
);
}
# Make level two headings bold, overriding any existing formatting.
sub
cmd_head2 {
my
(
$self
,
$attrs
,
$text
) =
@_
;
$text
=~ s/\s+$//;
$text
=
$self
->strip_format (
$text
);
$text
=~ s/(.)/$1\b$1/g;
return
$self
->SUPER::cmd_head2 (
$attrs
,
$text
);
}
# Make level three headings underscored, overriding any existing formatting.
sub
cmd_head3 {
my
(
$self
,
$attrs
,
$text
) =
@_
;
$text
=~ s/\s+$//;
$text
=
$self
->strip_format (
$text
);
$text
=~ s/(.)/_\b$1/g;
return
$self
->SUPER::cmd_head3 (
$attrs
,
$text
);
}
# Level four headings look like level three headings.
sub
cmd_head4 {
my
(
$self
,
$attrs
,
$text
) =
@_
;
$text
=~ s/\s+$//;
$text
=
$self
->strip_format (
$text
);
$text
=~ s/(.)/_\b$1/g;
return
$self
->SUPER::cmd_head4 (
$attrs
,
$text
);
}
# The common code for handling all headers. We have to override to avoid
# interpolating twice and because we don't want to honor alt.
sub
heading {
my
(
$self
,
$text
,
$indent
,
$marker
) =
@_
;
$self
->item (
"\n\n"
)
if
defined
$$self
{ITEM};
$text
.=
"\n"
if
$$self
{opt_loose};
my
$margin
=
' '
x (
$$self
{opt_margin} +
$indent
);
$self
->output (
$margin
.
$text
.
"\n"
);
return
''
;
}
# Fix the various formatting codes.
sub
cmd_b {
local
$_
=
$_
[0]->strip_format (
$_
[2]); s/(.)/$1\b$1/g;
$_
}
sub
cmd_f {
local
$_
=
$_
[0]->strip_format (
$_
[2]); s/(.)/_\b$1/g;
$_
}
sub
cmd_i {
local
$_
=
$_
[0]->strip_format (
$_
[2]); s/(.)/_\b$1/g;
$_
}
# Output any included code in bold.
sub
output_code {
my
(
$self
,
$code
) =
@_
;
$code
=~ s/(.)/$1\b$1/g;
$self
->output (
$code
);
}
# Strip all of the formatting from a provided string, returning the stripped
# version.
sub
strip_format {
my
(
$self
,
$text
) =
@_
;
$text
=~ s/(.)[\b]\1/$1/g;
$text
=~ s/_[\b]//g;
return
$text
;
}
# We unfortunately have to override the wrapping code here, since the normal
# wrapping code gets really confused by all the backspaces.
sub
wrap {
my
$self
=
shift
;
local
$_
=
shift
;
my
$output
=
''
;
my
$spaces
=
' '
x
$$self
{MARGIN};
my
$width
=
$$self
{opt_width} -
$$self
{MARGIN};
while
(
length
>
$width
) {
# This regex represents a single character, that's possibly underlined
# or in bold (in which case, it's three characters; the character, a
# backspace, and a character). Use [^\n] rather than . to protect
# against odd settings of $*.
my
$char
=
'(?:[^\n][\b])?[^\n]'
;
if
(s/^((?>
$char
){0,
$width
})(?:\Z|[ \t\n]+)//) {
$output
.=
$spaces
. $1 .
"\n"
;
}
else
{
last
;
}
}
$output
.=
$spaces
.
$_
;
$output
=~ s/\s+$/\n\n/;
return
$output
;
}
##############################################################################
# Module return value and documentation
##############################################################################
1;
__END__
=for stopwords
overstrike overstruck Overstruck Allbery terminal's
=head1 NAME
Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text
=head1 SYNOPSIS
use Pod::Text::Overstrike;
my $parser = Pod::Text::Overstrike->new (sentence => 0, width => 78);
# Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
$parser->parse_from_filehandle;
# Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
$parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');
=head1 DESCRIPTION
Pod::Text::Overstrike is a simple subclass of Pod::Text that highlights
output text using overstrike sequences, in a manner similar to nroff.
Characters in bold text are overstruck (character, backspace, character)
and characters in underlined text are converted to overstruck underscores
(underscore, backspace, character). This format was originally designed
for hard-copy terminals and/or line printers, yet is readable on soft-copy
(CRT) terminals.
Overstruck text is best viewed by page-at-a-time programs that take
advantage of the terminal's B<stand-out> and I<underline> capabilities, such
as the less program on Unix.
Apart from the overstrike, it in all ways functions like Pod::Text. See
L<Pod::Text> for details and available options.
=head1 BUGS
Currently, the outermost formatting instruction wins, so for example
underlined text inside a region of bold text is displayed as simply bold.
There may be some better approach possible.
=head1 COMPATIBILITY
Pod::Text::Overstrike 1.01 (based on L<Pod::Parser>) was the first version of
this module included with Perl, in Perl 5.6.1.
The current API based on L<Pod::Simple> was added in Pod::Text::Overstrike
2.00, included in Perl 5.9.3.
Several problems with wrapping and line length were fixed as recently as
Pod::Text::Overstrike 6.0.0.
This module inherits its API and most behavior from Pod::Text, so the details
in L<Pod::Text/COMPATIBILITY> also apply. Pod::Text and Pod::Text::Overstrike
have had the same module version since 4.00, included in Perl 5.23.7. (They
unfortunately diverge in confusing ways prior to that.)
=head1 CAVEATS
Line wrapping is done only at ASCII spaces and tabs, rather than using a
correct Unicode-aware line wrapping algorithm.
=head1 AUTHOR
Originally written by Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>, using the framework
created by Russ Allbery <rra@cpan.org>. Subsequently updated by Russ Allbery.
=head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
Copyright 2000 Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>
Copyright 2001, 2004, 2008, 2014, 2018-2019, 2022, 2024 Russ Allbery
<rra@cpan.org>
This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
=head1 SEE ALSO
L<Pod::Text>, L<Pod::Simple>
The current version of this module is always available from its web site at
L<https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>. It is also part of the
Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.
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