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Description
Presently, the POD in the podspell script is not very useful, especially not when it gets converted to man format during installation.
Gentoo have for example, inherited the following custom alternative man page from debian, and are shipping it instead of the man page that is automatically generated.
podspell(1) podspell(1)
NAME
podspell - a formatter for spell checking Pod(Plain Old Documentation
format)
SYNTAX
podspell <filename.pm>
DESCRIPTION
podspell is an implementation of Pod::Spell(3pm); it is a Pod formatter
whose output is good for spell checking.
podspell could be use to pipe an output to spell(1) or ispell(1), or
can be use to redirect the output to a file ej. > temp.txt ), and then
open the text file in your word processor for spell-checking.
podspell is provided by Pod::Spell Module package.
AUTHORS
This manual page was written by Rene Mayorga <rmayorga@debian.org.sv>
for the Debian system (but may be used by others). Permission is
granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms
of the GNU General Public License, Version 2 any later version pub‐
lished by the Free Software Foundation.
On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License
can be found in /usr/share/common-licenses/GPL.
SEE ALSO
Pod::Spell(3pm)
Debian Project 23 Oct. 2007 podspell(1)
If something along these lines was incorporated by default, no local supplementation would be necessary.
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