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diff --git a/textproc/p5-Pod-Simple/pkg-descr b/textproc/p5-Pod-Simple/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..124956cfe85b --- /dev/null +++ b/textproc/p5-Pod-Simple/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +Pod::Simple is a Perl library for parsing text in the Pod ("plain old +documentation") markup language that is typically used for writing +documentation for Perl and for Perl modules. The Pod format is explained in the +perlpod man page; the most common formatter is called "perldoc". + +Pod formatters can use Pod::Simple to parse Pod documents into produce +renderings of them in plain ASCII, in HTML, or in any number of other formats. +Typically, such formatters will be subclasses of Pod::Simple, and so they will +inherit its methods, like parse_file. + +WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Simple/ |