Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-06 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 05/11/2010 09:05 PM, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 5 November 2010 20:08, Andrew Coppinandrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Would it be hard to replace - with a real Unicode arrow character? It should be quite easy - whether a given font has an arrow readily available is a different matter. I

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-06 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 6 November 2010 09:52, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: I can't remember the last time I saw a browser that couldn't do this. There /are/ symbols that don't work reliably, but the basic arrow symbols seem to be pretty well supported. Okay I'll shift my position a bit...

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-06 Thread Alexander Solla
On Nov 6, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote: Modern browsers might add in arrow from a different font if it is not present in the one chosen by the web page author - I suspect this is happening on this page where the arrow looks wrong typographically: I don't think that's what's going

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-06 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 6 November 2010 18:01, Alexander Solla a...@2piix.com wrote: On Nov 6, 2010, at 3:56 AM, Stephen Tetley wrote: Modern browsers might add in arrow from a different font if it is not present in the one chosen by the web page author - I suspect this is happening on this page where the arrow

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-05 Thread Don Stewart
dons: magnus: I know there's a .cabal file for the latest version of HP somewhere, but I can't coerce Google into finding me a link that actually works. Furthermore, the following page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html does list all the contents, but to my big

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-05 Thread Andrew Coppin
On 05/11/2010 02:59 PM, Don Stewart wrote: The changelog now lists all the versions: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/changelog.html This is quite optimal. It would still be nice if one could easily answer the question which HP release was the one that contained process-1.0.1.1,

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-05 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 5 November 2010 20:08, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Would it be hard to replace - with a real Unicode arrow character? It should be quite easy - whether a given font has an arrow readily available is a different matter. It might be be simpler to drop into the Symbol font

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Bowler
On 2010-11-05 21:05 +, Stephen Tetley wrote: On 5 November 2010 20:08, Andrew Coppin andrewcop...@btinternet.com wrote: Would it be hard to replace - with a real Unicode arrow character? It should be quite easy - whether a given font has an arrow readily available is a different matter.

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-05 Thread Stephen Tetley
On 5 November 2010 21:31, Nick Bowler nbow...@elliptictech.com wrote: Except that the Symbol font family is not available in all browsers. Ah ha - indeed you are right and the puritans at W3C and Mozilla.org seem to have dug their heels in. Unfortunately arrows don't appear to be in either the

[Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-01 Thread Magnus Therning
I know there's a .cabal file for the latest version of HP somewhere, but I can't coerce Google into finding me a link that actually works. Furthermore, the following page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html does list all the contents, but to my big surprise it doesn't link to the

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-01 Thread Don Stewart
magnus: I know there's a .cabal file for the latest version of HP somewhere, but I can't coerce Google into finding me a link that actually works. Furthermore, the following page: http://hackage.haskell.org/platform/contents.html does list all the contents, but to my big surprise it

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Finding the contents of haskell platform?

2010-11-01 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 14:47, Don Stewart d...@galois.com wrote: magnus: I know there's a .cabal file for the latest version of HP somewhere, but I can't coerce Google into finding me a link that actually works. Furthermore, the following page: