Convert markdown descriptions to HTML

README.md

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ source .venv/bin/activate
 ```
 One can also use `conda` and other tools to set up virtual environments.
 
-To install the dependencies (only [`PyYAML`](https://pyyaml.org/), at the moment), you can use:
+To install the dependencies, you can use:
 ```
 python -m pip install -r requirements.txt
 ```

requirements.txt

@@ -1 +1,2 @@
 PyYAML==6.0
+Markdown==3.5.2

yaml2json.py

@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 import glob
 import os
 
+import markdown
 import yaml
 import json
 
@@ -20,6 +21,10 @@
             else:
                 name = tool_data["name"]
 
+            # Convert markdown description to HTML
+            if "summary" in tool_data:
+                tool_data["summary"] = markdown.markdown(tool_data["summary"])
+
             data[name] = tool_data
     with open("simtools/simtools.json", "w") as f:
         json.dump(data, f, indent=2, sort_keys=True)