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

On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 06:41:19PM +0100, Edsko de Vries wrote:

Yes please!

+1 as well. I find the current syntax too restrictive… iustin

On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 5:49 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:

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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

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