NAME

Text::Format::Interview - Take a text interview transcript and format to html.

VERSION

Version 0.01

SYNOPSIS

use Text::Format::Interview;

     my $txt = Text::Format::Interview->new();
     my $html = $txt->process($string);

Converts text of the form:

# Interview between Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, 3rd April, 2000 BC

      Fred: [00:00:00]
      So, Barney, when did you decide to become a Flintstone?

      Barney: [00:00:10]
      Well Fred, I'm not actually a Flintstone, my surname is Rubble and I live in Bedrock.

Into HTML, something like:

# Interview between Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, 3rd April, 2000 BC

      <h2>Fred: [00:00:00]</h2>
      <p>So, Barney, when did you decide to become a Flintstone?</p>

This is intended as a pre-processor, so the header is using markdown here, but could equally be html.

Alternatively if you specify a comma separated list of "interviewers" and "interviewees" at the top of the file to be processed, you'll get some css classes as well:

      # Interview between Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, 3rd April, 2000 BC
      interviewer: fred,wilma
      interviewee: barney,betty

      Fred: [00:00:00]
      So what's it like to be a flintstone?

      Barney: [00:00:05]
      I'm not a Flintstone, I'm a Rubble.  What do you think Betty?

      Betty:  [00:00:10]
      Yes Fred, you're confused.

      Wilma:  [00:00:15]
      I'm so terribly embarrassed by my husband.

Which ought to render to:

# Interview between Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble, 3rd April, 2000 BC

      <p>interviewer: fred, wilma <br>
      interviewee: barney, betty <br></p>

      <h2 class="interviewer">Fred: [00:00:00]</h2>
      <p>So what's it like to be a flintstone?</p>

      <h2 class="interviewee">Barney: [00:00:05]</p>
      <p>I'm not a Flintstone, I'm a Rubble.  What do you think Betty?</p>

This gives us the ability to put pretty colours in the interview transcript with CSS, something like this:

h2.interviewer > p { color: red }

(or something far more tortorous if you need to Internet Explorer 6 support ...)

FUNCTIONS
process
Takes the text, and spits out the html.

AUTHOR

Kieren Diment, "<zarquon at cpan.org>"

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-text-format-interview at rt.cpan.org", or through the web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Text-Format-Interview>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

SUPPORT

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

perldoc Text::Format::Interview

You can also look for information at:

• RT: CPAN's request tracker

  <http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Text-Format-Interview>

• AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

  <http://annocpan.org/dist/Text-Format-Interview>

• CPAN Ratings

  <http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Text-Format-Interview>

• Search CPAN

  <http://search.cpan.org/dist/Text-Format-Interview/>

• Version Control Repository (Github)

  <http://github.com/singingfish/Test-Format-Interview/tree/master>

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
COPYRIGHT & LICENSE

Copyright 2009 Kieren Diment, all rights reserved.

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

POD ERRORS

Hey! The above document had some coding errors, which are explained

below

Around line 175:

'=item' outside of any '=over'

Around line 180:

You forgot a '=back' before '=head1'