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    Pod::Spell - a formatter for spellchecking Pod

VERSION
    version 1.11

SYNOPSIS
            use Pod::Spell;
            Pod::Spell-&gt;new-&gt;parse_from_file( 'File.pm' );

            Pod::Spell-&gt;new-&gt;parse_from_filehandle( $infile, $outfile );

    Also look at podspell

            % perl -MPod::Spell -e "Pod::Spell-&gt;new-&gt;parse_from_file(shift)" Thing.pm |spell |fmt

    ...or instead of piping to spell or "ispell", use "&gt;temp.txt", and open
    temp.txt in your word processor for spell-checking.

DESCRIPTION
    Pod::Spell is a Pod formatter whose output is good for spellchecking.
    Pod::Spell rather like Pod::Text, except that it doesn't put much effort
    into actual formatting, and it suppresses things that look like Perl
    symbols or Perl jargon (so that your spellchecking program won't
    complain about mystery words like "$thing" or ""Foo::Bar"" or
    "hashref").

    This class provides no new public methods. All methods of interest are
    inherited from Pod::Parser (which see). The especially interesting ones
    are "parse_from_filehandle" (which without arguments takes from STDIN
    and sends to STDOUT) and "parse_from_file". But you can probably just
    make do with the examples in the synopsis though.

    This class works by filtering out words that look like Perl or any form
    of computerese (like "$thing" or ""N&gt;7"" or ""@{$foo}{'bar','baz'}"",
    anything in C&lt;...&gt; or F&lt;...&gt; codes, anything in verbatim paragraphs
    (code blocks), and anything in the stopword list. The default stopword
    list for a document starts out from the stopword list defined by
    Pod::Wordlist, and can be supplemented (on a per-document basis) by
    having "=for stopwords" / "=for :stopwords" region(s) in a document.

METHODS
  new
  command
  interior_sequence
  textblock
  verbatim
  stopwords
            $self-&gt;stopwords-&gt;isa('Pod::WordList'); # true

ENCODINGS
    Pod::Parser, which Pod::Spell extends, is extremely naive about
    character encodings. The "parse_from_file" method does not apply any
    PerlIO encoding layer. If your Pod file is encoded in UTF-8, your data
    will be read incorrectly.

    You should instead use "parse_from_filehandle" and manage the input and
    output layers yourself.

            binmode($_, ":utf8") for ($infile, $outfile);
            $my ps = Pod::Spell-&gt;new;
            $ps-&gt;parse_from_filehandle( $infile, $outfile );

    If your output destination cannot handle UTF-8, you should set your
    output handle to Latin-1 and tell Pod::Spell to strip out words with
    wide characters.

            binmode($infile, ":utf8");
            binmode($outfile, ":encoding(latin1)");
            $my ps = Pod::Spell-&gt;new( no_wide_chars =&gt; 1 );
            $ps-&gt;parse_from_filehandle( $infile, $outfile );

ADDING STOPWORDS
    NOTE: Pod::Spell makes a single pass over the POD. Stopwords must be
    added before they show up in the POD.

    You can add stopwords on a per-document basis with "=for stopwords" /
    "=for :stopwords" regions, like so:

      =for stopwords  plok Pringe zorch   snik !qux
      foo bar baz quux quuux

    This adds every word in that paragraph after "stopwords" to the stopword
    list, effective for the rest of the document. In such a list, words are
    whitespace-separated. (The amount of whitespace doesn't matter, as long
    as there's no blank lines in the middle of the paragraph.) Plural forms
    are added automatically using Lingua::EN::Inflect. Words beginning with
    "!" are *deleted* from the stopword list -- so "!qux" deletes "qux" from
    the stopword list, if it was in there in the first place. Note that if a
    stopword is all-lowercase, then it means that it's okay in *any* case;
    but if the word has any capital letters, then it means that it's okay
    *only* with *that* case. So a Wordlist entry of "perl" would permit
    "perl", "Perl", and (less interestingly) "PERL", "pERL", "PerL", et
    cetera. However, a Wordlist entry of "Perl" catches only "Perl", not
    "perl". So if you wanted to make sure you said only "Perl", never
    "perl", you could add this to the top of your document:

      =for stopwords !perl Perl

    Then all instances of the word "Perl" would be weeded out of the
    Pod::Spell-formatted version of your document, but any instances of the
    word "perl" would be left in (unless they were in a C&lt;...&gt; or F&lt;...&gt;
    style).

    You can have several "=for stopwords" regions in your document. You can
    even express them like so:

      =begin stopwords

      plok Pringe zorch

      snik !qux

      foo bar
      baz quux quuux

      =end stopwords

    If you want to use E&lt;...&gt; sequences in a "stopwords" region, you have to
    use ":stopwords", as here:

      =for :stopwords
      virtE&lt;ugrave&gt;

    ...meaning that you're adding a stopword of "virtù". If you left the ":"
    out, that would mean you were adding a stopword of "virtE&lt;ugrave&gt;" (with
    a literal E, a literal &lt;, etc), which will have no effect, since any
    occurrences of virtE&lt;ugrave&gt; don't look like a normal human-language
    word anyway, and so would be screened out before the stopword list is
    consulted anyway.

USING Pod::Spell
    My personal advice:

    *   Write your documentation in Pod. Pod is described in perlpod. And
        perlmodstyle has some advice on content. This is the stage where you
        want to make sure you say everything you should, have good and
        working examples, and have coherent grammar.

    *   Run it through podchecker. This will report all sorts of problems
        with your Pod; you may choose to ignore some of these problems.
        Some, like "*** WARNING: Unknown entity E&lt;qacute&gt;...", you should
        pay attention to.

    *   Once podchecker errors have been tended to, spellcheck the pod by
        running it through podspell / Pod::Spell. For any misspellings that
        are reported in the Pod::Spell-formatted text, fix them in the
        original. Repeat until there's no complaints.

    *   Run it through podchecker again just for good measure.

SEE ALSO
    Pod::Wordlist

    Pod::Parser

    podchecker also known as Pod::Checker

    perlpod, perlpodspec

HINT
    If you feed output of Pod::Spell into your word processor and run a
    spell-check, make sure you're *not* also running a grammar-check --
    because Pod::Spell drops words that it thinks are Perl symbols, jargon,
    or stopwords, this means you'll have ungrammatical sentences, what with
    words being missing and all. And you don't need a grammar checker to
    tell you that.

BUGS
    Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website
    https://github.com/xenoterracide/pod-spell/issues

    When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch
    to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

CONTRIBUTORS
    *   David Golden &lt;dagolden@cpan.org&gt;

    *   Olivier Mengué &lt;dolmen@cpan.org&gt;

AUTHORS
    *   Sean M. Burke &lt;sburke@cpan.org&gt;

    *   Caleb Cushing &lt;xenoterracide@gmail.com&gt;

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is Copyright (c) 2013 by Caleb Cushing.

    This is free software, licensed under:

      The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)

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