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Perl in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

by Nathan Patwardhan, Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour
June 2002
Beginner
759 pages
80h 42m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

pod2fm

Synopsis

pod2fm [options] file
                     

Translates pod to FrameMaker format.

Options

-book [ bookname ]

If set, creates FrameMaker book file. If not specified, bookname defaults to perl; filename extension is .book in either case.

-[no]doc

Whether to convert a MIF-format .doc output file to binary FrameMaker format. Default is -doc.

-format type

Which format to copy from the template document specified with the -template option. Type can be a comma-separated list, and -format can also be specified more than once. Legal types are:

Type

Description

all

All types (the default)

Character

Character formats

Paragraph

Paragraph formats

Page

Master page layouts

Reference

Reference page layouts

Table

Table formats

Variables

Variable definitions

Math

Math definitions

Cross

Cross-reference definitions

Color

Color definitions

Conditional

Conditional text definitions

Break

Preserves page breaks; controls how the other types are used

Other

Preserves other format changes; controls how the other types are used

-[no]index

Whether to generate an index. Defaults to -noindex.

-[no]lock

Whether to lock file as read-only so you can use hypertext marker feature. Defaults to -nolock.

-[no]mmlonly

Whether to stop execution after generating the MML version of the file. Default is -nommlonly.

-[no]open

Whether to try to open the book after creating it; requires the -book option.

-template document

Specifies a template document for pod2fm copies a format for use in formatting the output. document is the path to the template ...

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