From urban@ast.lmco.com

Below is a change log entry and a patch that allows pod2latex to correctly
generate latex files from pod pages.

D. S. Urban
email : urban@​ast.lmco.com

To be the person, you must know the person. To know the person, you must
understand the person. To understand the person, you must listen. To listen,
you must open your mind and put aside all preconceived ideas and notions.

All opinions expressed are my own not that of my employer

-------------------------- Change Log entry ------------------------------------

2000-04-17 D. Scott Urban <urban@​ast.lmco.com>

  * pod2latex.PL​: Added commands and uncommented lines to allow pod2latex to
  generate a correct latex file.

Index pod2latex.PL

diff -c -3 -p pod2latex.PL.old pod2latex.PL
*** pod2latex.PL.old Tue Apr 18 09​:10​:48 2000
--- pod2latex.PL Tue Apr 18 09​:22​:08 2000
*************** while (<POD>) {
*** 505,510 ****
--- 505,511 ----
  }
 
  print LATEX "\n";
+ print LATEX "\\end{document}\n";
  close(POD);
  close(LATEX);
 
*************** close(LATEX);
*** 512,524 ****
  #########################################################################
 
  sub do_hdr {
  print LATEX "% LaTeX document produced by pod2latex from \"$pod.pod\".\n";
  print LATEX "% The followings need be defined in the preamble of this
document​:\n";
! print LATEX "%\\def\\C++{{\\rm
C\\kern-.05em\\raise.3ex\\hbox{\\footnotesize ++}}}\n";
! print LATEX "%\\def\\underscore{\\leavevmode\\kern.04em\\vbox{\\hrule
width 0.4em height 0.3pt}}\n";
! print LATEX "%\\setlength{\\parindent}{0pt}\n";
  print LATEX "\n";
  $podq = &escape_tex_specials("\U$pod\E");
  print LATEX "\\section{$podq}%\n";
  print LATEX "\\index{$podq}";
  print LATEX "\n";
--- 513,528 ----
  #########################################################################
 
  sub do_hdr {
+ print LATEX "\\documentclass{article}\n";
+ print LATEX "\\normalsize\n";
  print LATEX "% LaTeX document produced by pod2latex from \"$pod.pod\".\n";
  print LATEX "% The followings need be defined in the preamble of this
document​:\n";
! print LATEX "\\def\\C++{{\\rm
C\\kern-.05em\\raise.3ex\\hbox{\\footnotesize ++}}}\n";
! print LATEX "\\def\\underscore{\\leavevmode\\kern.04em\\vbox{\\hrule width
0.4em height 0.3pt}}\n";
! print LATEX "\\setlength{\\parindent}{0pt}\n";
  print LATEX "\n";
  $podq = &escape_tex_specials("\U$pod\E");
+ print LATEX "\\begin{document}\n";
  print LATEX "\\section{$podq}%\n";
  print LATEX "\\index{$podq}";
  print LATEX "\n";