On 4 April 2013 20:49, Johan Tibell
Hi all,
Haddock's current markup language leaves something to be desired once you want to write more serious documentation (e.g. several paragraphs of introductory text at the top of the module doc). Several features are lacking (bold text, links that render as text instead of URLs, inline HTML).
I suggest that we implement an alternative haddock syntax that's a superset of Markdown. It's a superset in the sense that we still want to support linkifying Haskell identifiers, etc. Modules that want to use the new syntax (which will probably be incompatible with the current syntax) can set:
If we are going to change haddock syntax we should add ability to add math formulae to documentation. It's not currently possible and it makes documenting numeric code properly difficult.