Pod::Simple::Text(3p)

Pod::Simple::Text3p

Usage

  perl -MPod::Simple::Text -e \
   "exit Pod::Simple::Text->filter(shift)->any_errata_seen" \
   thingy.pod

Overview

This class is a formatter that takes Pod and renders it as wrapped plaintext.

Its wrapping is done by Text::Wrap, so you can change $Text::Wrap::columns as you like.

This is a subclass of Pod::Simple and inherits all its methods.

Support

Questions or discussion about POD and Pod::Simple should be sent to the [email protected] mail list. Send an empty email to [email protected] to subscribe.

This module is managed in an open GitHub repository, <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple/>. Feel free to fork and contribute, or to clone <https://github.com/perl-pod/pod-simple.git> and send patches!

Patches against Pod::Simple are welcome. Please send bug reports to <[email protected]>.

Releases

32 releases since OpenBSD 5.0; the text changed 20 times.

  1. 5.0–5.3
  2. 5.4–5.5
  3. 5.6
  4. 5.7
  5. 5.8–5.9
  6. 6.0
  7. 6.1
  8. 6.2
  9. 6.3–6.4
  10. 6.5
  11. 6.6
  12. 6.7
  13. 6.8
  14. 6.9–7.2
  15. 7.3
  16. 7.4
  17. 7.5
  18. 7.6
  19. 7.7–7.8
  20. 7.9
  21. 8.0

Author

Pod::Simple was created by Sean M. Burke <[email protected]>. But don't bother him, he's retired.

Pod::Simple is maintained by:

•

Allison Randal "[email protected]"

•

Hans Dieter Pearcey "[email protected]"

•

David E. Wheeler "[email protected]"

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.