[Agda] ANN: PandocAgda 2.4.3

[Peter Divianszky]

PandocAgda [1] is a thin wrap around Agda which interprets comments in 
literate Agda files as markdown text [2].

The output of PandocAgda is similar to Agda HTML listings files [3], but 
with more formatting. An example can be seen in [4].

PandocAgda was rewritten such that it is now just 129 SLOC Haskell lines 
in one file [5].
This was possible after some refactoring on the Agda compiler sources.
This means that it will be quite easy to maintain PandocAgda in the future.

PandocAgda is usable right now, but if there is more interest, it can be 
improved in the following ways:

A)
PandocAgda could be moved into the agda/agda GitHub repository.
Basically this would add 3 files (PandocAgda.hs [5], PandocAgda.cabal 
[6], Agda.template [7]) to the repository and integrating it into the 
documentation.

B)
It seems feasible to produce LaTeX output with PandocAgda.
The benefit would be that one could use the LaTeX backend with the Agda 
compiler to format Agda source code with lightweight markdown syntax for 
formatting comments in Agda source code.

C)
Even it seems feasible to fully integrate Pandoc into PandocAgda.
The benefit would be to use Pandoc supported input in Agda source 
comments (including markdown, Textile, reStructuredText, HTML, LaTeX, 
MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-mode, 
DocBook, txt2tags) and produce Pandoc supported output formats:
plain text, markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX (including 
beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, RTF, OPML, DocBook, OpenDocument, ODT, 
Word docx, GNU Texinfo, MediaWiki markup, DokuWiki markup, Haddock 
markup, EPUB (v2 or v3), FictionBook2, Textile, groff man pages, Emacs 
Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, InDesign ICML, and Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, 
reveal.js or S5 HTML slide shows and PDF.


Are you interested in these improvements?


Cheers,

Peter


Links:

[1]: https://github.com/divipp/PandocAgda
[2]: http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html#pandocs-markdown
[3]: 
http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/pmwiki.php?n=Main.HowToGenerateWebPagesFromSourceCode
[4]: http://people.inf.elte.hu/divip/AgdaTutorial/Sets.Recursive.html
[5]: https://github.com/divipp/PandocAgda/blob/master/PandocAgda.hs
[6]: https://github.com/divipp/PandocAgda/blob/master/PandocAgda.cabal
[7]: https://github.com/divipp/PandocAgda/blob/master/data/Agda.template