Pod::Text::Overstrike(3perl)				 Perl Programmers Reference Guide			      Pod::Text::Overstrike(3perl)

NAME

       Pod::Text::Overstrike - Convert POD data to formatted overstrike text

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');

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 stand-out and underline capabilities, such
       as the less program on Unix.

       Apart from the overstrike, it in all ways functions like Pod::Text.  See Pod::Text for details and available options.

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.

SEE ALSO

       Pod::Text, Pod::Simple

       The current version of this module is always available from its web site at <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>.  It is also
       part of the Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.

AUTHOR

       Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>, using the framework created by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       Copyright 2000 by Joe Smith <Joe.Smith@inwap.com>.  Copyright 2001, 2004, 2008 by Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>.

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

perl v5.14.2							    2010-12-30					      Pod::Text::Overstrike(3perl)