[Hackage] #784: Cabal strips out { and } in literate code blocks of the description field

29 Dec 2010

      #784: Cabal strips out { and } in literate code blocks of the description field
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  Reporter:  guest          |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.8.0.6
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                 |  
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 If you have a description like this:
 {{{
 description: Here is some C code:
              .
              > for(i = 0; i < 100; i++){
              >   printf("%d\n",i);
              > }
              .
 }}}

 Cabal will strip out the brackets.  You can use @..@ syntax with {
 and } except that then the whitespace is off in your code block and
 you have to escape any symbols that haddock knows.  Putting a blackslash
 (\) in front the braces does not help.

 The above example works fine in plain haddock leading me the conclusion
 that cabal is eating the braces.

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Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/784
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