PPOD2LATEX(1)

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version 1.20190729 · 2 versions
, in fedora 43

💖 PPOD2LATEX(1) 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the internet ✨ this one's called ppod2latex, and it's literally the glow-up machine that turns your PseudoPod into LaTeX 🦋

✨ NAME ✨

ppod2latex — convert PseudoPod to LaTeX, no cap 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ppod2latex [--keep_ligatures] [--captions_below] [--full] <file-list>

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

So here's the vibe: you hand it a file (or like, a whole list of files, she's flexible 🫶) written in PseudoPod, and she converts it into LaTeX so you can keep processing it later into, say, a PDF via pdflatex. iconic behaviour, honestly.

⚠️ real talk though — the LaTeX text she spits out is not a whole document by itself. It needs a LaTeX preamble, and it has to be wrapped inside a document environment. she's the main character, not the entire show 💖

👑 OPTIONS 👑

  • keep_ligatures — keeps ligatures in the LaTeX output text 🔥 so the character pairs fi, fl, and ft will get joined when LaTeX produces its output. cute little letter besties holding hands, we love to see it ✨
  • captions_below — puts figure and table captions below the object instead of above it. and above? that's the default, so don't come for her 😌
  • full — creates a standalone document that you can immediately run through latex or pdflatex 🚀 fully dressed, ready to go, no extra steps, ate 💅

and that's the whole page, bestie!! she's short and sweet and she knows exactly what she's doing 🌈

this lil manual is from perl v5.42.0, dated 2025-07-25 — mwah, thanks for reading, ily, go convert something gorgeous 🎀💖✨

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