#588: requiring '.' for blank lines is annoying ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: Jake Wheat | Owner: Type: defect | Status: closed Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2 Severity: minor | Resolution: duplicate Keywords: | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: | Platform: ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * status: new => closed * resolution: => duplicate * summary: whitespace in description mangled before running haddock => requiring '.' for blank lines is annoying Comment: In that same section of the user guide it state: * To get a blank line in a field value, use an indented “.” This is an annoying historical artifact in the Cabal specification from the time when blank lines were used to separate sections. There's no need to keep this "feature". See ticket #478. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/588#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects