Hi Josef, You should be fine if you follow Haddock formatting. For example:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/lens Is from the cabal file: http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/lens/3.8.5/lens.cabal Ryan On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 7:30 AM, Josef Svenningsson < josef.svennings...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm putting together a cabal package and I'd like to have some code > examples in my description file. In particular I would like to have a code > block containing markdown containing a code block of Haskell, like this: > > > ~~~{ .haskell } > > module Main where > > > > main = putStrLn "Hello World!" > > ~~~ > > When I put the above code in my .cabal file and do `cabal haddock > --executables` I get the following error: > > haddock: failed to parse haddock prologue from file: > dist/doc/html/codeExtract/codeExtract/haddock-prolog31969.txt > > In general I can provoke the parse error from haddock whenever I have > something inside curly braces. > > So the error seems to stem from haddock. I've tried to track down what > happens inside haddock but I've run out steam. I'd like to know if there is > anything I can do to be able to write something like the above as part of > the description in my .cabal file. > > Thanks, > > Josef > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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