Updates: PerlPoint::Package 0.38, Pod::PerlPoint 0.03 by jochen.stenzel

Hello,

I just releaed these two packages, PerlPoint::Package 0.38 and
Pod::PerlPoint 0.03.

PerlPoint::Package fixes a few bugs, especially in the paragraph filter
implementation. I used pfilters in a large presentation project and so I
recognized the bugs ;-) Now, with the fixes, they work pretty well for me.

Besides other fixes and small improvements, there is a new feature called
"input filters". In preparation of another project which will combine sources
by a significant number of authors which might be probably new to PerlPoint, I
thought it might be helpful to integrate POD sources directly, as POD is
very common. In a first step, I thought of a general solution for any language a
user might have sources at hand in. So finally input filters are there. (And
now you know why I wrote Pod::PerlPoint ;-)

Using input filters is pretty straight forward. First one has to define the
function to use:

\EMBED{lang=perl}

use Pod::PerlPoint 0.03;

sub pod2pp
{
my ($pod2pp, $result)=(new Pod::PerlPoint());
$pod2pp->output_string(\$result);
$pod2pp->parse_string_document(@main::_ifilterText);
$result;
}

\END_EMBED


Then, you can refer to it when embedding or including sources. Like so:

\EMBED{ifilter=pod2pp lang=pp}

=head1 POD headline

POD text.

\END_EMBED


and so:

\INCLUDE{file="source.pod" ifilter=pod2pp type=pp}


If you are interested, take a look at the new demo file demo/perlpods.pp
which processes all POD's of your running perl. (Make sure to use -active and
-safe ALL, and deactivate the cache.)

As always, I'm interested in any feedback.

Greetings

Jochen


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