[Haskell-cafe] Markdown extension for Haddock as a GSoC project

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

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On 02/05/13 06:57, Ben wrote:
> sorry, i was only trying to make a helpful suggestion!
> 
> just to clarify: i'm not championing asciitext (or any other
> format) -- i only heard about it recently in a comment on
> 
> http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2012/10/the-future-of-markdown.html
>
>  i checked it out and it sounded cool, so i thought it'd be a
> helpful pointer to whomever is working on new haddock -- they are
> of course welcome to ignore it.  totally understand that overmuch
> debate is not helpful (though i'm not sure it's fair to call it
> bikeshedding, since it is a primary feature of the proposed
> project!)
> 
> best, ben
> 
> On Apr 27, 2013, at 2:02 PM, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, Apr 27, 2013 at 1:47 PM, Ben <midfield at gmail.com> wrote: 
>> asciidoc has been mentioned a few times in comments, i think it's
>> worth looking at.
>> 
>> This is the problem I was afraid of: for every markup syntax
>> under the sun, someone will come along to champion it.
>> 
>> The choice of one or N syntaxes is ultimately up to the
>> discretion of the student, guided by their mentor. It is in our
>> collective interest to avoid prolonging a bikeshed discussion on
>> this, as a long inconclusive discussion risks dissuading any
>> sensible student or mentor from wanting to pursue the project in
>> the first place.
> 
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These two posts are exactly why I believe that extending Haddock
itself would be of more benefit than simply adding a Markdown
extension to it: with addition to core features, integrating any of
the N syntaxes that people want suddenly becomes the question of just
writing reader and writer modules for Pandoc instead of a full project
on marshalling yet another markup as an extension directly to Haddock.

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Mateusz K.
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