# `dhall-text` For installation or development instructions, see: * [`dhall-haskell` - `README`](https://github.com/dhall-lang/dhall-haskell/blob/master/README.md) ## Introduction This `dhall-text` package provides a `dhall-to-text` executable which you can use to template text using the Dhall configuration language. ## Example Suppose you save the following files to your current directory: ```haskell $ cat Person -- Dhall is a typed programming language -- This file is the type of an anonymous record { name : Text, upvotes : Natural } ``` ```haskell $ cat people -- Dhall natively supports lists and anonymous records [ { name = "Maria" , upvotes = 14 } , { name = "Jordan", upvotes = 2 } , { name = "Pranav", upvotes = 1 } ] {- This file has type: ./people : List { name : Text, upvotes : Natural } ... or just: ./people : List ./Person -} ``` ```haskell $ cat make-item -- You can define anonymous functions in Dhall using a backslash (i.e. `\`) \(person : ./Person) -- You can import any type or expression by its path {- Dhall supports multiline strings that strip leading whitespace and Dhall supports string interpolation, too, using `${...}` syntax -} -> ''