NAME
basic.pod - Test of various basic POD features in translators.

HEADINGS
Try a few different levels of headings, with embedded formatting codes and other interesting bits.

This "is" a "level 1" heading

  ``Level'' "2 heading
Level 3 heading with "weird stuff "" (double quote)"

Level "4 "heading"

Now try again with intermixed text.

This "is" a "level 1" heading
Text.

  ``Level'' 2 heading
Text.

Level 3 heading with "weird stuff"

Text.

Level "4 "heading"

Text.

LINKS
These are all taken from the Pod::Parser tests.

Try out LOTS of different ways of specifying references:

Reference the "section" in manpage

Reference the "section" in "manpage"

Reference the "section" in manpage

Now try it using the new "|" stuff ...

Reference the thistext|

Reference the thistext |

Reference the thistext|

Reference the thistext |

Reference the thistext|

Reference the thistext|

And then throw in a few new ones of my own.

foo

foo

"bar" in foo

"baz boo" in foo

"bar"

"baz boo"

"baz boo"

"baz boo" in foo bar

"boo var baz"

"bar baz"

"boo", "bar", and "baz"

foobar

Testing italics

"Italic text" in foo

"Section "with" other markup" in foo|bar

Nested <http://www.perl.org/>

OVER AND ITEMS
Taken from Pod::Parser tests, this is a test to ensure that multiline =item paragraphs get indented appropriately.

This is a test.

There should be whitespace now before this line.

Taken from Pod::Parser tests, this is a test to ensure the nested =item paragraphs get indented appropriately.

1.  First section.

    a   this is item a

    b   this is item b

2.  Second section.

    a   this is item a

    b   this is item b

    c
    d   This is item c & d.

Now some additional weirdness of our own. Make sure that multiple tags for one paragraph are properly compacted.

"foo"
bar
"baz"
    There shouldn't be any spaces between any of these item tags; this idiom is used in perlfunc.

Some longer item text
    Just to make sure that we test paragraphs where the item text doesn't fit in the margin of the paragraph (and make sure that this paragraph fills a few lines).

    Let's also make it multiple paragraphs to be sure that works.

Test use of =over without =item as a block "quote" or block paragraph.

    This should be indented four spaces but otherwise formatted the same as any other regular text paragraph. Make sure it's long enough to see the results of the formatting.....

Now try the same thing nested, and make sure that the indentation is reset back properly.

        This paragraph should be doubly indented.

    This paragraph should only be singly indented.

    •   This is an item in the middle of a block-quote, which should be allowed.

    •   We're also testing tagless item commands.

    Should be back to the single level of indentation.

Should be back to regular indentation.

Now also check the transformation of * into real bullets for man pages.

•   An item. We're also testing using =over without a number, and making sure that item text wraps properly.

•   Another item.

and now test the numbering of item blocks.

1.  First item.

2.  Second item.

FORMATTING CODES
Another test taken from Pod::Parser.

This is a test to see if I can do not only $self and "method()", but also "$self->method()" and "$self->{FIELDNAME}" and "$Foo <=> $Bar" without resorting to escape sequences. If I want to refer to the right-shift operator I can do something like "$x >> 3" or even "$y >> 5".

Now for the grand finale of "$self->method()->{FIELDNAME} = {FOO=>BAR}". And I also want to make sure that newlines work like this "$self->{FOOBAR} >> 3 and [$b => $a]->[$a <=> $b]"

Of course I should still be able to do all this with escape sequences too: "$self->method()" and "$self->{FIELDNAME}" and "{FOO=>BAR}".

Dont forget "$self->method()->{FIELDNAME} = {FOO=>BAR}".

And make sure that 0 works too!

Now, if I use << or >> as my delimiters, then I have to use whitespace. So things like "<$self-"method()>> and "<$self-"{FIELDNAME}>> wont end up doing what you might expect since the first > will still terminate the first < seen.

Lets make sure these work for empty ones too, like "" and ">>" (just to be obnoxious)

The statement: "This is dog kind's finest hour!" is a parody of a quotation from Winston Churchill.

The following tests are added to those:

Make sure that a few other odd things still work. This should be a vertical bar: |. Here's a test of a few more special escapes that have to be supported:

&   An ampersand.

'   An apostrophe.

<   A less-than sign.

>   A greater-than sign.

"   A double quotation mark.

/   A forward slash.

Try to get this bit of text over towards the edge so |that all of this text inside S<> won't| be wrapped. Also test the |same thing with non-breaking spaces.|

There is a soft hyphen in hyphen at hy-phen.

This is a test of an index entry.

VERBATIM
Throw in a few verbatim paragraphs.

    use Term::ANSIColor;
    print color 'bold blue';
    print "This text is bold blue.\n";
    print color 'reset';
    print "This text is normal.\n";
    print colored ("Yellow on magenta.\n", 'yellow on_magenta');
    print "This text is normal.\n";
    print colored ['yellow on_magenta'], "Yellow on magenta.\n";

    use Term::ANSIColor qw(uncolor);
    print uncolor '01;31', "\n";

But this isn't verbatim (make sure it wraps properly), and the next paragraph is again:

    use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants);
    print BOLD, BLUE, "This text is in bold blue.\n", RESET;

    use Term::ANSIColor qw(:constants); $Term::ANSIColor::AUTORESET = 1; print BOLD BLUE "This text is in bold blue.\n"; print "This text is normal.\n";

(Ugh, that's obnoxiously long.) Try different spacing:

        Starting with a tab.
Not
starting
with
a
tab.  But this should still be verbatim.
 As should this.

This isn't.

 This is.  And this:    is an internal tab.  It should be:
                    |--| <= lined up with that.

(Tricky, but tabs should be expanded before the translator starts in on the text since otherwise text with mixed tabs and spaces will get messed up.)

    And now we test verbatim paragraphs right before a heading.  Older
    versions of Pod::Man generated two spaces between paragraphs like this
    and the heading.  (In order to properly test this, one may have to
    visually inspect the nroff output when run on the generated *roff
    text, unfortunately.)

CONCLUSION
That's all, folks!