pod2texi (1) Linux Manual Page
NAME
pod2texi – convert Pod to Texinfo
SYNOPSIS
pod2texi [OPTION]... POD...
DESCRIPTION
Translate Pod file(s) to Texinfo. There are two basic modes of operation. First, by default, each pod is translated to a standalone Texinfo manual.
Second, if "--base-level" is set higher than 0, each pod is translated to a file suitable for @include, and one more file with all the @includes is generated, intended to be @included in turn within a hand-written top-level file.
OPTIONS
–appendix-sections- Use appendix sectioning commands (@appendix, …) instead of the default numbered sectioning Texinfo @-commands (@chapter, @section, …).
–base-level=NUM|NAME- Sets the level of the "head1" commands. It may be an integer or a Texinfo sectioning command (without the "@"): 1 corresponds to the @chapter/@unnumbered level, 2 to the @section level, and so on. The default is 0, meaning that "head1" commands are still output as chapters, but the output is arranged as a standalone manual.
If the level is not 0, the pod file is rendered as a fragment of a Texinfo manual suitable for @include. In this case, each pod file has an additional sectioning command covering the entire file, one level above the "--base-level" value. Therefore, to make each pod file a chapter in a large manual, you should use "section" as the base level.
For an example of making Texinfo out of the Perl documentation itself, see "contrib/perldoc-all" in the Texinfo source distribution, with output available at <http://www.gnu.org/software/perl/manual>.
–debug=NUM- Set debugging level to NUM.
–help- Display help and exit.
–output=NAME- Name for the first manual, or the main manual if there is a main manual. Default is to write to standard output.
–no-section-nodes- Use anchors for sections instead of nodes.
–no-fill-section-gaps- Do not fill sectioning gaps with empty @unnumbered files. Ordinarily, it’s good to keep the sectioning hierarchy intact.
–preamble=STR- Insert STR as top boilerplate before includes. The default is a minimal beginning for a Texinfo document, and sets @documentencoding to "utf-8" (because the output is written that way).
–subdir=NAME- If there is a main manual with include files (each corresponding to an input pod file), then those include files are put in directory NAME.
–unnumbered-sections- Use unnumbered sectioning commands (@unnumbered, …) instead of the default numbered sectioning Texinfo @-commands (@chapter, @section, …).
–top=TOP- Name of the @top element for the main manual. May contain Texinfo code.
–version- Display version information and exit.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Simple::Texinfo. perlpod. The Texinfo manual. Texinfo home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/texinfo/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright 2021 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
AUTHOR
Patrice Dumas <bug-texinfo [at] gnu.org>.