On Thu, 2009-08-20 at 09:12 -0400, Sean McLaughlin wrote:
Hello,
I can't find a way to pass the -lit flag to hscoulour using neither my cabal configuration file nor a command line option to runhaskell Setup.hs haddock. I'd really like to not have my literate comments be colored according to Haskell lexical conventions. Is there a way to do this?
So it's fine for us to call hscolour differently for .lhs vs .hs files. The annoying thing here is that to "do the right thing" Cabal would need to distinguish bird-track style literate files (hscolour -lit) from tex style (hscolour -lit-tex). I don't think this is reasonable. The hscolour program is the one doing the lexing so it is in a position to work out which literate style it is using, or indeed if it's using a mixture. So I suggest you file a ticket against hscolour asking for -lit and -lit-tex to be merged. It might be worth asking if hscolour should by default just do the right thing, ie use -lit on .lhs input files. If not then file a separate ticket for Cabal to use -lit on .lhs files. In particular I'm not suggesting any configuration knob in Cabal for this. We should just do the right thing. Seem like a reasonable plan? Duncan