Re: Some proposed Perl 6 pod projects for comment

[Tom Browder]

On Sunday, May 15, 2016, mt1957  wrote:
>
> Pod::To::PDF
>> ==
>>
>> Nice to have.  It could use something like p6pod2latex as an
>> intermediate filter and then use popular LaTeX tools to generate the PDF.
>
> At the moment I am writing pod6 in separate files with the following at
> the top of such a file. It needs wkhtmltopdf for this to work. In the
> example below you can see css style things to format
> specific items of the generated html from Pod::To::HTML. It might give you
> some ideas.


Thank, Marcel, it does!

Best regards,

-Tom

Re: Some proposed Perl 6 pod projects for comment

[mt1957]

Hi Tom,


Pod::To::PDF
==

Nice to have.  It could use something like p6pod2latex as an
intermediate filter and then use popular LaTeX tools to generate the PDF.
At the moment I am writing pod6 in separate files with the following at 
the top of such a file. It needs wkhtmltopdf for this to work. In the 
example below you can see css style things to format
specific items of the generated html from Pod::To::HTML. It might give 
you some ideas.


Greetings,
Marcel


#!/usr/bin/env perl6
#
use v6.c;

# Running the pod file will create a pdf using wkhtmltopdf
#
my Str $pod = "$*PROGRAM";
my Str $pdf = $pod;
$pdf ~~ s/\. <-[.]>+ $/.pdf/;
shell( "perl6 --doc=HTML '$pod' | wkhtmltopdf - '$pdf'");

=begin pod

=begin Xhtml

   pre {
 border-width:   2px;
 border-style:   solid;
 border-color:   #060;
 padding:10px 0 3px 10px;
 color:  #060;
 background-color:   #eaefea;
 font-family:FreeMono;
   }
   td {
 vertical-align: top;
   }

=end Xhtml

=TITLE class MongoDB::Server

...

=end pod