SNOPEA(7)

NAME
snopea - A little ``Plain Old Documentation'' format for SNOBOL4

DESCRIPTION
snopea(7) is a simple-to-use markup language used for writing documentation for SNOBOL4, SNOBOL4 programs, and SNOBOL4 modules inspired by perlpod(1). The snopea(1) command translates snopea(7) to *roff man(7) macro format or HTML.

A line that starts with zero or more star/asterisk (*) characters followed by =pea signals start of a block of documentation. All lines until a =cut directive will be processed after removal of leading star/asterisk characters.

New paragraphs are started with a blank line.

FORMATTING

B<text>
    text is formatted in bold.

I<text>
    text is formatted in italic.

C<text>
    text is formatted in constant width.

L<text>
    text is formatted as an HTML link.

DIRECTIVES

=break
    Inserts a line break.

=bull text
    Indicates a bullet item in a list.

=code
    Starts a block of code, lines will be formatted in a constant-width font, and line breaks will be preserved.

=cut
    Signals end of a block of documentation.

=ecode
    Ends a =code block.

=etable
    Ends a table.

=item label
    A list item with tag label.

=indent number
    Controls the indentation of =item paragraphs.

=nitem text
    A numbered list item with tag label.

=row columns
    A table row. columns is a tab separated list.

=sect name
    Declares man page section name.

=subsect name
    Declares man page subsection name.

=table tab stops
    Begin a table, setting tab stops, a sequence of positions in inches, each followed by i (ie; 1i 2i 3i)

SPECIAL CHARACTERS
The following sequences (an unholy mix of troff(1) and HTML) MUST be used for portable formatting:

``  left double quote (``)

''  right double quote ('')

&amp;
    ampersand (&)

&pi;
    greek lower-case pi (π)

\e  backslash (\)

\`  accent grave (`)

\'  apostrophe (')

\-  en-dash

\&  zero-width space

\|  thin space

\~  non-breaking space

NOT CONFORMING TO
Inspired by (but not compatible with) Perl POD format.

AUTHOR
Philip L. Budne

SEE ALSO
snobol4(1), snopea(1), perlpod(1).