Florent Gallaire wrote >Have satisfied users is a real motivation for the txt2tags team.
I think a lot of other Perl users would also be very happy to use txt2tags instead of pod. Then instead of having to write e.g.: =over =item I<this> =item B<that> =item U<the other> =item etc =back they can just write: - //this// - **that** - __the other__ - etc So heres a challenge for someone who knows more about Perl than I do: + Rewrite my quick and dirty pod-as-txt2tags script (below) as a Perl module. + Then put that module on CPAN. + Then blog/tweet/rave about it. rch ---------------------------------------------------------------------- #!/usr/bin/perl # This script reads a Perl file # which has been documented (=pod … =cut) using txt2tags markup # and writes out the documentation format html # It assumes that executables «podselect» and «txt2tags» # are already installed use strict; use Carp; use Cwd (qw(abs_path)); # Please fill in values for the following my $pfil = '';# name of the Perl script with t2t documentation my $wrkgdir = '';# path to that Perl script my $heading = '';# title of the html outfile my $subheading = '';# second line of the html outfile my $my_css_file= '';# path and name of the css file # Dont touch anything below here my $plfile = $wrkgdir . $pfil; unless( -d $wrkgdir){croak "Cannot find \$wrkgdir $wrkgdir\n\tCroaked";} unless( -f $plfile ){croak "Cannot find \$plfile $plfile\n\tCroaked";} my $header = "$heading\n$subheading\n"; (my $t2tfile = $plfile ) =~ s/\.pl/.t2t/; (my $tempfile = $plfile ) =~ s/\.pl/.temp/; (my $htmlfile = $plfile ) =~ s/\.pl/.html/; # Precautionary principle ... croak if( ( $t2tfile eq $plfile ) ); croak if( ( $tempfile eq $plfile )or( $tempfile eq $t2tfile ) ); croak if( ( $htmlfile eq $plfile )or( $htmlfile eq $tempfile )or( $htmlfile eq $t2tfile ) ); # Run podselect on the .pl file my $command1 = "podselect $plfile > $tempfile"; system $command1; croak unless( -f $tempfile ); # Prepare to read temp file and write t2t file open TEMPFILE, "<", $tempfile or croak; open T2TFILE, ">", $t2tfile or croak; # Write header into the t2t file print T2TFILE $header; print T2TFILE <<"EOF"; \%\%mtime(\%Y-\%m-\%d \%H:\%M:\%S) \%!target : html \%!encoding : UTF-8 \%!options : --css-sugar --css-inside \%!style(html) : $my_css_file EOF # Write the temp file into the t2t file while(<TEMPFILE>){ print T2TFILE unless( ( /^=pod/ )or( /^=begin txt2tags/ )or( /^=end txt2tags/ )or( /^=cut/ )); } close TEMPFILE or croak; # Close the t2t file with a coda printf T2TFILE "\n\n\n===CODA===\n\n\n- This file was made from [%s %s]\n- By [%s %s]\n\n\n", $pfil,$plfile,$0, abs_path($0),; close T2TFILE or croak; # Run txt2tags on the t2t file my $command2 = "txt2tags --target html $t2tfile"; print STDOUT "\n\n"; system $command2; print STDOUT "\n\n"; # Remove the file *.temp and the file *.t2t foreach my $file ( $t2tfile, $tempfile ) { unlink $file or warn "Could not unlink $file: $!\n"; } # All done! Say goodbye if(-f $htmlfile){print STDOUT "DONE THAT!\n\n";} else{print STDOUT "\n\n\tOHHH! NO SIGN OF $htmlfile\n\n";} __END__ =pod ==NAME== t.b.c. ==SYNOPSIS== t.b.c. ==DESCRIPTION== t.b.c. ==EXAMPLES== t.b.c. ==REQUIREMENTS== + Requires //podselect//; standard part of Perl installation, usually found (Linux) at /usr/bin/podselect. See [CPAN http://search.cpan.org/~jhi/perl-5.8.1/pod/podselect.PL] + And //txt2tags//. See [download page http://txt2tags.org/download.html] ==CAVEATS== t.b.c. ==NOTES== t.b.c. ==AUTHOR== t.b.c. ==COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE== This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ txt2tags-list mailing list https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/txt2tags-list