pretty-1.1.2.0: README.md
# Pretty : A Haskell Pretty-printer library
[](https://hackage.haskell.org/package/pretty) [](https://travis-ci.org/haskell/pretty)
Pretty is a pretty-printing library, a set of API's that provides a
way to easily print out text in a consistent format of your choosing.
This is useful for compilers and related tools.
It is based on the pretty-printer outlined in the paper 'The Design
of a Pretty-printing Library' by John Hughes in Advanced Functional
Programming, 1995. It can be found
[here](http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.38.8777).
## Licensing
This library is BSD-licensed.
## Building
The library uses the Cabal build system, so building is simply a
matter of running:
```
cabal sandbox init
cabal install "QuickCheck >= 2.5 && < 3"
cabal install --only-dependencies
cabal configure --enable-tests
cabal build
cabal test
```
We have to install `QuickCheck` manually as otherwise Cabal currently
throws an error due to the cyclic dependency between `pretty` and
`QuickCheck`.
*If `cabal test` freezes*, then run
`cabal test --show-details=streaming` instead. This is due to a
[bug](https://github.com/haskell/cabal/issues/1810) in certain
versions of Cabal.
## Get involved!
We are happy to receive bug reports, fixes, documentation enhancements,
and other improvements.
Please report bugs via the
[github issue tracker](http://github.com/haskell/pretty/issues).
Master [git repository](http://github.com/haskell/pretty):
* `git clone git://github.com/haskell/pretty.git`
## Authors
This library is maintained by David Terei, <code@davidterei.com>. It
was originally designed by John Hughes's and since heavily modified by
Simon Peyton Jones.