ODF2POD(1p)

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💖 ODF2POD 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because today we're talking about odf2pod, a lil Perl script from the User Contributed Perl Documentation corner of the world. She generates POD out of an OpenDocument file, and honestly? she's doing her best and her best is adorable. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

odf2pod — POD generation from an OpenDocument file

like. that's the whole vibe. you give her an OpenDocument file, she hands you POD. simple as. 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

Usage : odf2pod <filename>

one argument, one dream. pass her the filename and she goes. 🦋

💫 DESCRIPTION 💫

okay so here's the tea: this is a demo script, and what it does is export the content of a given OpenDocument file to POD, straight onto the standard output. no cap, that's it, that's the whole thing.

and listen — in the present form she is quite limited and not flexible. but that's on purpose, okay?? 😭 she stays that way so she remains easily readable. she's not trying to be everything, she's trying to be legible. main character energy tbh.

so think of her as an example of text extraction using OpenOffice::OODoc — not as the 'definitive' odf2pod filter. because bestie, complex document structures are not properly rendered. she said what she said. 🙈

before extraction happens, some transformations get done in the document, so it's more convenient for a POD presentation. glow-up first, output second. ✨

some pieces of metadata — that's the title, the subject, and the description — if they're defined, get reported at the beginning of the POD. she's like "hi, here's what this doc is about, slay." 💖

and the footnotes? they get removed from the content and reported in a special section at the end. out of the way, but not forgotten. we love a tidy queen. 👑

🧚 one more thing (dependencies) 🧚

this script needs Text::Wrapper — and heads up, that's not necessarily required by the OpenOffice::OODoc installation, so don't come for her if you didn't have it already. she needs it. it's giving "bring your own wrapper."

and if you wanna implement more sophisicated presentation rules, you could use Text::Format instead. options, bestie. we love options. 🌈

ngl the whole thing is giving "small script, big heart." keep your expectations cute and she'll keep your output cuter. ⭐

and that's the page, babe — brought to you by perl v5.34.0, dated 2022-06-16. periodt. 💜🫶

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