Re: cpan package document in pdf

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Whoops, my apologies for the BioPerl references =E2=80=94 I thought this wa=
s on
another list. In any case, my comments on pod to pdf tools should still
apply.

Dave


On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 11:11, Dave Messina <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Peng,
>
> All of the module documentation for BioPerl is in POD format. It's possib=
le
> to convert POD into several different types of output, including PDF.
>
> There are at least two different scripts that will do the POD to PDF
> conversion, the latter of which is on CPAN:
> http://perl.jonallen.info/projects/pod2pdf
> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Pod-Pdf/scripts/pod2pdf
>
> Because the documentation for each module is actually in the same file as
> the code itself, if you have BioPerl on your computer, then you have all =
of
> the documentation, too. So another way to see the documentation for each
> module is from the command line via the perldoc command:
> $ perldoc Bio::SeqIO
>
>
>
> Dave
>
>
> On Tue, Aug 9, 2011 at 06:48, Peng Yu <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> cpan doesn't have package document in pdf. I'm wondering if the pdf
>> documents can be added for easy downloading. Also, I'd like to be able
>> to download all the documents in a tar.bz2 file. Can this be done on
>> cpan?
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>> Peng
>>
>
>

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