# info > Pod::Text::Termcap

## [Pod::Text::Termcap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3ATermcap/markdown)(3perPerl Programmers Reference [GuiPod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/GuiPod%3A%3AText/markdown)::[Termcap(3perl)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Termcap/3perl/markdown)

## NAME
       [Pod::Text::Termcap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3ATermcap/markdown) - Convert POD data to ASCII text with format escapes

## SYNOPSIS
           use [Pod::Text::Termcap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3ATermcap/markdown);
           my $parser = [Pod::Text::Termcap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3ATermcap/markdown)->new (sentence => 0, width => 78);

           # Read POD from STDIN and write to STDOUT.
           $parser->parse_from_filehandle;

           # Read POD from file.pod and write to file.txt.
           $parser->parse_from_file ('file.pod', 'file.txt');

## DESCRIPTION
       [Pod::Text::Termcap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText%3A%3ATermcap/markdown) is a simple subclass of [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown) that highlights
       output text using the correct termcap escape sequences for the current
       terminal.  Apart from the format codes, it in all ways functions like
       [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown).  See [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown) for details and available options.

       This module uses [Term::Cap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Term%3A%3ACap/markdown) to find the correct terminal settings.  See
       the documentation of that module for how it finds terminal database
       information and how to override that behavior if necessary.  If unable
       to find control strings for bold and underscore formatting, that
       formatting is skipped, resulting in the same output as [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown).

## AUTHOR
       Russ Allbery <<rra@cpan.org>>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       Copyright 1999, 2001-2002, 2004, 2006, 2008-2009, 2014-2015, 2018-2019
       Russ Allbery <<rra@cpan.org>>

       This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.

## SEE ALSO
       [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown), [Pod::Simple](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3ASimple/markdown), [Term::Cap](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Term%3A%3ACap/markdown)

       The current version of this module is always available from its web
       site at <<https://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/podlators/>>.  It is also
       part of the Perl core distribution as of 5.6.0.

perl v5.34.0                      2026-06-23         [Pod::Text](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/perldoc/Pod%3A%3AText/markdown)::[Termcap(3perl)](https://www.chedong.com/phpMan.php/man/Termcap/3perl/markdown)