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.IX Title "POD2MARKDOWN 1p"
.TH POD2MARKDOWN 1p "2020-11-04" "perl v5.30.3" "User Contributed Perl Documentation"
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.SH "NAME"
pod2markdown \- Convert POD text to Markdown
.SH "VERSION"
.IX Header "VERSION"
version 3.300
.SH "SYNOPSIS"
.IX Header "SYNOPSIS"
.Vb 2
\&    # parse STDIN, print to STDOUT
\&    $ pod2markdown < POD_File > Markdown_File
\&
\&    # parse file, print to STDOUT
\&    $ pod2markdown input.pod
\&
\&    # parse file, print to file
\&    $ pod2markdown input.pod output.mkdn
\&
\&    # parse STDIN, print to file
\&    $ pod2markdown \- output.mkdn
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.SH "DESCRIPTION"
.IX Header "DESCRIPTION"
This program uses Pod::Markdown to convert \s-1POD\s0 into Markdown sources.
.PP
\&\s-1UTF\-8\s0 is the default output encoding
if no encoding options are specified (see \*(L"\s-1OPTIONS\*(R"\s0).
.PP
It accepts two optional arguments:
.IP "\(bu" 4
input pod file (defaults to \f(CW\*(C`STDIN\*(C'\fR)
.IP "\(bu" 4
output markdown file (defaults to \f(CW\*(C`STDOUT\*(C'\fR)
.SH "OPTIONS"
.IX Header "OPTIONS"
.IP "\-\-html\-encode\-chars" 4
.IX Item "--html-encode-chars"
A list of characters to encode as \s-1HTML\s0 entities.
Pass a regexp character class, or \f(CW1\fR to mean control chars, high-bit chars, and \f(CW\*(C`<&>"\*(Aq\*(C'\fR.
.Sp
See \*(L"html_encode_chars\*(R" in Pod::Markdown for more information.
.IP "\-\-match\-encoding (\-m)" 4
.IX Item "--match-encoding (-m)"
Use the same \f(CW\*(C`=encoding\*(C'\fR as the input pod for the output file.
.IP "\-\-output\-encoding (\-e)" 4
.IX Item "--output-encoding (-e)"
Specify the encoding for the output file.
.IP "\-\-utf8 (\-u)" 4
.IX Item "--utf8 (-u)"
Alias for \f(CW\*(C`\-e UTF\-8\*(C'\fR.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.IX Header "SEE ALSO"
This program is strongly based on \f(CW\*(C`pod2mdwn\*(C'\fR from Module::Build::IkiWiki.
.SH "AUTHORS"
.IX Header "AUTHORS"
.IP "\(bu" 4
Marcel Gruenauer <marcel@cpan.org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Victor Moral <victor@taquiones.net>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Ryan C. Thompson <rct at thompsonclan d0t org>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Aristotle Pagaltzis <pagaltzis@gmx.de>
.IP "\(bu" 4
Randy Stauner <rwstauner@cpan.org>
.SH "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
.IX Header "COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE"
This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Randy Stauner.
.PP
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.