POD2HTML(1) Perl Programmers Reference Guide POD2HTML(1)
NAME
pod2html - convert .pod files to .html files
SYNOPSIS
pod2html --help --htmldir=<name> --htmlroot=<URL>
--infile=<name> --outfile=<name>
--podpath=<name>:...:<name> --podroot=<name>
--cachedir=<name> --flush --recurse --norecurse
--quiet --noquiet --verbose --noverbose
--index --noindex --backlink --nobacklink
--header --noheader --poderrors --nopoderrors
--css=<URL> --title=<name>
DESCRIPTION
Converts files from pod format (see perlpod) to HTML format.
ARGUMENTS
pod2html takes the following arguments:
backlink
--backlink
--nobacklink
Turn =head1 directives into links pointing to the top of the HTML
file. --nobacklink (which is the default behavior) does not create
these backlinks.
cachedir
--cachedir=name
Specify which directory is used for storing cache. Default
directory is the current working directory.
css
--css=URL
Specify the URL of cascading style sheet to link from resulting
HTML file. Default is none style sheet.
flush
--flush
Flush the cache.
header
--header
--noheader
Create header and footer blocks containing the text of the "NAME"
section. --noheader -- which is the default behavior -- does not
create header or footer blocks.
help
--help
Displays the usage message.
htmldir
--htmldir=name
Sets the directory to which all cross references in the resulting
HTML file will be relative. Not passing this causes all links to be
absolute since this is the value that tells Pod::Html the root of
the documentation tree.
Do not use this and --htmlroot in the same call to pod2html; they
are mutually exclusive.
htmlroot
--htmlroot=URL
Sets the base URL for the HTML files. When cross-references are
made, the HTML root is prepended to the URL.
Do not use this if relative links are desired: use --htmldir
instead.
Do not pass both this and --htmldir to pod2html; they are mutually
exclusive.
index
--index
Generate an index at the top of the HTML file (default behaviour).
noindex
--noindex
Do not generate an index at the top of the HTML file.
infile
--infile=name
Specify the pod file to convert. Input is taken from STDIN if no
infile is specified.
outfile
--outfile=name
Specify the HTML file to create. Output goes to STDOUT if no
outfile is specified.
poderrors
--poderrors
--nopoderrors
Include a "POD ERRORS" section in the outfile if there were any POD
errors in the infile (default behaviour). --nopoderrors does not
create this "POD ERRORS" section.
podpath
--podpath=name:...:name
Specify which subdirectories of the podroot contain pod files whose
HTML converted forms can be linked-to in cross-references.
podroot
--podroot=name
Specify the base directory for finding library pods.
quiet
--quiet
--noquiet
Don't display mostly harmless warning messages. --noquiet -- which
is the default behavior -- does display these mostly harmless
warning messages (but this is not the same as "verbose" mode).
recurse
--recurse
--norecurse
Recurse into subdirectories specified in podpath (default
behaviour). --norecurse does not recurse into these
subdirectories.
title
--title=title
Specify the title of the resulting HTML file.
verbose
--verbose
--noverbose
Display progress messages. --noverbose -- which is the default
behavior -- does not display these progress messages.
AUTHOR
Tom Christiansen, <tchrist@perl.com>.
BUGS
See Pod::Html for a list of known bugs in the translator.
SEE ALSO
perlpod, Pod::Html
COPYRIGHT
This program is distributed under the Artistic License.
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