# phpman > man > Pod::Text::Termcap

## 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.