On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Duncan Coutts wrote:
On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 20:03 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
I like to use Haddock markup like bird track (>) and enumerations (*) in the Description field of a package.
Yep,
However I can't get it working, the mentioned markup is simply ignored.
Hmm, works for me:
Description: foo . > bar . * baz
And the generated html documentation displays the markup as expected.
For some reason we decided on a .cabal file format where blank lines are ignored and one needs '.' on a line to signal a blank line. I'm highly tempted to change that unless someone has a compelling reason.
Ah, that's the trick. Should be documented. I hoped to read about here: http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/latest/doc/users-guide/x30.html#general...