At 7:53 AM -1000 3/31/00, Tim Jenness wrote:
>This is not a failure.
I agree. I've issued a PASS.
>
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>> No tests.
>
>Indeed. There is only one test to make sure it loads. I am still
>thinking about the best way to implement a test - I'm not too keen
>on a 'convert some pod to latex and then compare byte for byte with
>a test case' but I will add one.
>
>> pod2latex seems to produce bad LaTeX:
>
>As for the second point, pod2latex does not produce bad latex. It does not
>have a latex preamble/postamble by default (providing backwards
>compatibility with the existing pod2latex command that forms part of the
>core distribution). Unlike the old pod2latex my pod2latex can be told to
>create a full document that can be latexed immediately.
>
>According to the pod2latex man page, use of the -full option will
>generate a full latex document.
>
>% pod2latex -full LaTeX.pm
>
>should work. Sorry for the confusion, I would have made -full the default
>if it wasn't for the fact that the existing pod2latex does not have this
>behaviour (and can't be configured to do it either).
That's too bad, because I'm sure that there are others, like me, that
will expect the output of "pod2latex" to be directly usable by latex
without messing around. But so long as it's documented, that's fine.
It produces very nice output.
My apologies for not reading the docs this morning. I was under some
time pressure and just didn't think to look.
>
>>
>> The \begin{docmuent} \end{document} pair is also missing.
>
>See above. IT also adds index creation and table of contents with -full.
>
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>Tim Jenness
>JCMT software engineer/Support scientist
>http://www.jach.hawaii.edu/~timj
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