Comment 1 for bug 1069550

see contrib/texi2pod.pl. if you do want to work on something more sensible, please attach a patch. Note that @xref can take various numbers of parameters.

    # keep references of the form @ref{...}, print them bold
    s/\@(?:ref)\{([^\}]*)\}/B<$1>/g;

    # Change double single quotes to double quotes.
    s/''/"/g;
    s/``/"/g;

    # Cross references are thrown away, as are @noindent and @refill.
    # (@noindent is impossible in .pod, and @refill is unnecessary.)
    # @* is also impossible in .pod; we discard it and any newline that
    # follows it. Similarly, our macro @gol must be discarded.

    s/\(?\@xref\{(?:[^\}]*)\}(?:[^.<]|(?:<[^<>]*>))*\.\)?//g;
    s/\s+\(\@pxref\{(?:[^\}]*)\}\)//g;
    s/;\s+\@pxref\{(?:[^\}]*)\}//g;