Haddock Support For Markdown Syntax

Introduction

Currently Haddock uses a unique markup syntax for writing documentation which is used nowhere else. This is unfortunate since there is already a plethora of markup languages and having to remember yet another one is a nuisance for the programmer. It would help if Haddock could support more commonly available formats.

Goals of the Project

The aim of the project is to modify Haddock to support a commonly used markup syntax, for instance Markdown. These modifications should be made available to the Haddock project for possible inclusion into the tool.

A possible route would be to use Pandoc which already has a good Markdown parser and integrate that with Haddock.

Prereq.: Functional programming
Contact: Josef Svenningsson
Number of people: 1

Learning outcomes:

experience with software documentation (packaging etc.)
software engineering within functional programming
experience with software technology: parsing
interaction with an open source community