and commands to mark sections as being in another language. The latter feature allows for special formatting to be given to parsers that support it. See also Comparison of documentation generators References Wall, Larry; Christiansen, Tom; & Orwant, Jon (2000). Programming Perl (3rd ed.). Sebastopol: O'Reilly & Associates. . Chapter 15, "Working with Pod", in foy, brian d (2007). Mastering Perl. Sebastopol: O'Reilly Media. . Section 5.2, "Embedding Documentation in Shell Scripts", in Albing, Carl; Vossen, JP; & Cameron Newham. (2007). bash Cookbook: Solutions and Examples for bash Users; O'Reilly & Associates. . External links perlpod (documentation on pod for people writing documents in it) perlpodspec (documentation on pod for people writing parsers for it) The Perl manpages in raw pod format (PseudoPOD) The directory contains many modules with embedded pod formatting The Getopt::Euclid module parses input to a Perl script automatically based on pod tags The Pod::Simple::Wiki converts pod into various Wiki formats The Pod::Markdown converts pod into Markdown Free documentation generators Lightweight markup languages Perl