pod2wiki - A utility to convert Pod documents to Wiki format.
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Copyright
(c) MMIII-MMX1V John McNamara.
All Rights Reserved. This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed and/or modified under
the same terms as Perl itself.
perl v5.36.0 2022-10-13 POD2WIKI(1p)
Description
This program is used for converting Pod text to Wiki text.
Pod is Perl's PlainOldDocumentation format. See "man perlpod" or "perldoc perlpod".
A Wiki is a user extensible web site. It uses very simple mark-up that is converted to Html. For an
introduction to Wikis see: <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiki>
Disclaimer Of Warranty
Please refer to the DISCLAIMER OF WARRANTY in Pod::Simple::Wiki.
Name
pod2wiki - A utility to convert Pod documents to Wiki format.
Options
podfile
The input file that contains the Pod file to be converted. It can also be stdin.
outfile
The converted output file in wiki format. Defaults to stdout if not specified.
--styleor-s
Sets the wiki style of the output. If no "style" is specified the program defaults to "wiki". The
available options are:
wiki
This is the original Wiki format as used on Ward Cunningham's Portland repository of Patterns.
See <http://c2.com/cgi/wiki>.
kwiki
This is the format as used by Brian Ingerson's Kwiki: <http://www.kwiki.org>.
usemod
This is the format used by the Usemod wikis. See: <http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/wiki.pl>.
twiki
This is the format used by TWiki wikis. See: <http://twiki.org/>.
tiddlywiki
This is the format used by the TiddlyWiki. See: <http://www.tiddlywiki.com/>.
textile
The Textile markup format as used on GitHub. See: <http://textile.thresholdstate.com/>.
wikipedia or mediawiki
This is the format used by Wikipedia and MediaWiki wikis. See: <http://www.mediawiki.org/>.
markdown
This is the format used by GitHub and other sites. See:
<http://daringfireball.net/projects/markdown/syntax>.
moinmoin
This is the format used by MoinMoin wikis. See: <http://moinmo.in/MoinMoinWiki>.
muse
Emacs Muse (also known as "Muse" or "Emacs-Muse") is an authoring and publishing environment for
Emacs.
confluence
This is the format used by Confluence. See: <http://www.atlassian.com/software/confluence/>.
--encoding
Specify the encoding for the output filehandle:
--encoding=":utf8"
Refer to "binmode" in perlfunc for more details. This option is only available in Perl 5.8 and later.
--noerrataor-noe
Don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section at the end of the document. Equivalent to the
"Pod::Simple::no_errata_section()" method.
--helpor-h
Print a brief help message and exits.
--manor-m
Prints the manual page and exits.
Synopsis
pod2wiki [--style --noerrata --help --man] podfile [outfile]
Options:
--style wiki style (defaults to wiki. See --help)
--noerrata don't generate a "POD ERRORS" section
--help brief help message
--man full documentation
