[Haskell-cafe] GSoC Project Proposal: Markdown support for Haddock

[Simon Heath]

I humbly suggest reStructuredText rather than Markdown, which is what
is used by the Python community for documentation.  Since it's specifically
made for documentation it may be nicer.  But, I don't want to spark
a format argument.

There is also the Pandoc program, which is a universal-ish markup-
language-converter, conveniently written in Haskell.  Might be a place
to start for this, regardless of the language chosen:
http://www.johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/

Simon

Excerpts from Johan Tibell's message of 2013-04-04 09:49:04 -0700:
> Hi all,
> 
> Haddock's current markup language leaves something to be desired once
> you want to write more serious documentation (e.g. several paragraphs
> of introductory text at the top of the module doc). Several features
> are lacking (bold text, links that render as text instead of URLs,
> inline HTML).
> 
> I suggest that we implement an alternative haddock syntax that's a
> superset of Markdown. It's a superset in the sense that we still want
> to support linkifying Haskell identifiers, etc. Modules that want to
> use the new syntax (which will probably be incompatible with the
> current syntax) can set:
> 
> {-# HADDOCK Markdown #-}
> 
> on top of the source file.
> 
> Ticket: http://trac.haskell.org/haddock/ticket/244
> 
> -- Johan
>