PP2LATEX(1) User Contributed Perl Documentation PP2LATEX(1)NAMEpp2latex - PerlPoint to LaTeX converter
VERSION
This man page describes $Revision: 1.14 $ from PerlPoint::Converters
Package 1.0205
SYNOPSISpp2latex--help
pp2latex [@options_file] [options] slide_text
DESCRIPTION
"pp2latex" creates a LaTeX file from a PerlPoint input file.
SYNTAX of PerlPoint Files
For a detailed description of the PerlPoint language please refer to
the excellent POD documentation of the PerlPoint::Parser Module by
Jochen Stenzel. There you will find everything you ever wanted to know
about PerlPoint ;-)
OPTIONS
--section-sequence=chapter
This option may (and should) be specified more than once. For each
level of headline a corresponding LaTeX section can be specified:
The following sequence of options yields the assignment shown
below:
--section-sequence=section
--section-sequence=subsection
--section-sequence=subsubsection
--section-sequence=paragraph
--section-sequence=bftext
=Healine Level 0 ---> \section{Headline Level 0}
==Healine Level 1 ---> \subsection{Headline Level 1}
===Healine Level 2 ---> \subsubsection{Headline Level 2}
====Healine Level 3 ---> \paragraph{Headline Level 3}
=====Healine Level 4, 5, ... ---> \textbf{Headline Level 4, 5, ...}
Note: --section-sequence=chapter can only be use if the document
class is report or book.
--filter=regexp
This specifies a regular expression "regexp" which should match all
allowed languages for EMBEDed code. The expression is evaluated
caseinsensitively.
Example: --filter="perl|latex"
--prolog=filename
Specifies a file which must contain the LaTeX Declarations for the
document. "\documentclass" and "\begin{document}" must be defined
there.
--activeContents
PerlPoint sources can embed Perl code which is evaluated while the
source is parsed. For reasons of security this feature is
deactivated by default. Set this option to active it. You can use
--safeOpcode to fine tune which operations shall be permitted.
--double_lines
This option has the effect that all horizontal Lines in Tables are
doubled.
--cache
parsing of one and the same document several times can be
accelerated by activating the PerlPoint parser cache by this
option. The performance boost depends on your document structure.
Cache files are written besides the source and named ".<source
file>.ppcache".
It can be useful to (temporarily) deactivate the cache to get
correct line numbers in parser error messages (currently numbers
cannot always reported correctly with activated cache because of a
special perl behaviour).
--cacheCleanup
PerlPoint parser cache files grow (with every modified version of a
source parsed) because they store expressions for every parsed
variant of a paragraph. This is usually uncritical but you may wish
to clean up the cache occasionally. Use this option to perform the
task (or remove the cache file manually).
-nocopyright
suppresses the copyright message;
-noinfo
supresses runtime informations;
--nowarn
supresses warnings;
--quiet
a shortcut for "--nocopyright --noinfo --nowarn": all non critical
runtime messages are suppressed;
--safeOpcode <opcode>
If active contents is enabled (--activeContents), Perl code
embedded into the translated PerlPoint sources will be evaluated.
To keep security this is done via an object of class Safe which
restricts code to permitted operations. By this option you can
declare which opcode (or opcode tag) is permitted. Please see the
Safe and Opcode manual pages for further details. (These modules
come with perl.)
This option can be used multiply.
You may want to store these options in default option files, see
below for details.
For the examples used in ppdoc.pp you should use
--safeOpcode=:filesys_open --safeOpcode=:still_to_be_decided --safeOpcode=:browse
--set <flag>
This option allows you to pass certain settings - of your choice -
to active contents (like conditions) where it can be accessed via
the $PerlPoint hash reference. For example, your PerlPoint code
could contain a condition like
? $PerlPoint->{userSettings}{special}
Special part.
? 1
. The special part enclosed by the two conditions would then be
processed only if you call "pp2html" with
--set special
- and if active contents was enabled by -active, of course.
This option can be used multiply.
--trace [<level>]
activates traces of the specified level. You may use the
environment variable SCRIPTDEBUG alternatively (but an option
overwrites environment settings). The following levels are defined
(use the numeric values) - if a description sounds cryptic to you,
just ignore the setting:
--help
Output of usage.
--version
Output of version information.
FILES
Configuration file $HOME/.pp2latex
ENVIRONMENT
The following environment variables have influence on the program:
SCRIPTDEBUG
may be set to a numeric value to activate certain trace levels. You
can use option -trace alternatively (note that a used option
overwrites an environment setting). The several levels are
described with this option.
SEE ALSO
"pp2html"
AUTHOR
Lorenz Domke (lorenz.domke@gmx.de), 2001. All rights reserved.
perl v5.20.2 2015-08-31 PP2LATEX(1)
