On Mon, Feb 4, 2013 at 1:26 PM, Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuze...@fuuzetsu.co.uk>wrote:
> I don't understand why you're putting it in your .cabal file. Isn't > something like 3.8.5 over at [1] what you're trying to achieve? > > Right, I probably should have mentioned that the reason I put it in the .cabal file is that the cabal package I'm putting together is an executable. So I want the documentation to show up on the index page. > ... > > I had a look at a package ([2]) that I know uses a multi-line code block > example. Here's what I found in its cabal file: > An example: > . > > runShpider $ do > > download "http://apage.com"; > > theForm : _ <- getFormsByAction "http://anotherpage.com"; > > sendForm $ fillOutForm theForm $ pairs $ do > > "occupation" =: "unemployed Haskell programmer" > > "location" =: "mother's house" > . > > Depending on your mail client, the `>' signs might get quoted. > > Yes. I have no problems including code in general. It's when I have things inside curly braces that I get a parse error. And that's exactly what I would like to have. Thanks, Josef > [1] - http://www.haskell.org/haddock/doc/html/ch03s08.html > [2] - > > http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/shpider/0.2.1.1/doc/html/Network-Shpider.html > > On 04/02/13 12:30, Josef Svenningsson 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 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >
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