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.Dd $Mdocdate: March 24 2014 $
.Dt POD2MDOC 1
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm pod2mdoc
.Nd Convert POD data to mdoc input
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm pod2man
.Op Fl chloqruv
.Op Fl d Ar date
.Op Fl n Ar title
.Op Fl s Ar section
.Op Ar file
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
utility reads
.Ar file
and
generates
.Xr mdoc 7
input from
.Xr perlpod 1
source.
If unspecified or
.Ar \&- ,
.Ar file
is taken to be standard input.
Its arguments are as follows:
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl chloqruv
For compatibility with
.Xr pod2man 1 .
Ignored.
.It Fl d Ar date
Set the document date
.Pq Sq Dd
to
.Ar date
.Po
preferrably in
.Qq Month Day, Year
format
.Pc .
If unspecified,
.Nm
uses the file modification date or the current date if reading from
standard input.
.It Fl n Ar title
Set the document title
.Pq Sq Dt
to
.Ar title .
If unspecified,
.Nm
uses the suffix-stripped filename part of
.Ar file
as a document title or
.Ar STDIN
if reading from standard input
.Pq you probably don't want that .
.It Fl s Ar section
Set the document section
.Pq Sq Dt
to
.Ar section .
If unspecified,
.Nm
uses
.Ar 1
or, if the input file suffix is
.Li .pm ,
uses
.Ar 3p .
.El
.Sh EXIT STATUS
.Ex -std
.Sh COMPATIBILITY
If
.Fl s
is not specified and the suffix for
.Ar file
is
.Li .pm ,
.Nm
infers a manual section of 3p, not 3, as stipulated in
.Xr perlpod 1 .
Furthermore, all links in the format of
.Li L<Foo::Bar>
are assumed to be in section 3p.
.Pp
If
.Nm
encounters an
.Li =item
without the necessary
.Li =over ,
it will pretend that a prior
.Li =over
was invoked.
However, it will do so silently and not, as
.Xr pod2man 1
does, append a POD ERRORS section in the output manpage saying so.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr perlpod 1 ,
.Xr pod2man 1
.Sh AUTHORS
.Nm
was written by
.Ar Kristaps Dzonsons ,
.Mt kristaps@bsd.lv .
.Sh CAVEATS
By way of being a presentational language, POD is not well-represented
by
.Xr mdoc 7 .
Semantic content will be necessarily lost.
.Pp
.Nm
only supports the named
.Li E<xxx>
escapes.
HTML names and numbers are silently discarded.
.Pp
Although most white-space requests in character encodings are properly
carried to output, adjacent character escapes with the specific
whitespace sequence
.Qq Li "B<2>B< 3>"
will cause the second space to be lost.
.Pp
The
.Li S<>
escape is discarded.
.Pp
Lastly, only the
.Li L<Perl::Manpage>
and
.Li L<manpage(1)>
links are understood and properly rendered as
.Sq \&Xr .