On Mon, 2009-08-24 at 18:30 +0100, Malcolm Wallace wrote:
I'd like the format of the comments to stay the same as in the file. The easiest way I suppose is to wrap <pre> tags around them. That's all I meant.
Now I understand. The literate file format is designed for you to use your own markup for the commentary. In particular, many people use real HTML tags (or LaTeX commands etc) for the comments, and I have no wish to impede them. One obvious solution, that would inconvenience no-one else, would be to add the <pre> tags yourself.
Malcolm, this is all true but we need some sensible default case, eg for all the source links in the hackage docs in the case where people are not using any specific markup. If there were a "pre" mode then I think this would be the default that Cabal should use (since it currently does not know any more detail about what form the .lhs files are). Duncan