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.IX Title "Pod::Simple::Text 3perl"
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Pod::Simple::Text \-\- format Pod as plaintext
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This class is a formatter that takes Pod and renders it as
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This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.
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Pod::Simple, Pod::Simple::TextContent, Pod::Text
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Copyright (c) 2002 Sean M. Burke.
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Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke .
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