[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-13 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Jonathan Cast wrote: NB: This example is *precisely* why I will never adopt MathML as an authoring format. Bowing and scraping at the alter of W3C is not worth using such a terrible syntax, not ever. (Indented, that's math mrow msup mix/mi mn2/mn

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-13 Thread Jonathan Cast
On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 11:08 +0100, Heinrich Apfelmus wrote: Jonathan Cast wrote: NB: This example is *precisely* why I will never adopt MathML as an authoring format. Bowing and scraping at the alter of W3C is not worth using such a terrible syntax, not ever. (Indented, that's

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-13 Thread Achim Schneider
What about making a SoC out of the problem? A mathematical markup language that is easily written as well as valid Haskell, executable within reason, compilable into mathML (think backticks) and would revolutionise the typeset quality of literate programming? -- (c) this sig last receiving data

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-13 Thread Henning Thielemann
On Fri, 13 Feb 2009, Achim Schneider wrote: What about making a SoC out of the problem? A mathematical markup language that is easily written as well as valid Haskell, executable within reason, compilable into mathML (think backticks) and would revolutionise the typeset quality of literate

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-12 Thread Duncan Coutts
On Tue, 2009-02-10 at 12:39 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote: Heinrich Apfelmus schrieb: Henning Thielemann wrote: I want for long to write math formulas in a paper in Haskell. Actually, lhs2TeX can do such transformations but it is quite limited in handling of parentheses and does not

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-10 Thread Henning Thielemann
Heinrich Apfelmus schrieb: Henning Thielemann wrote: I want for long to write math formulas in a paper in Haskell. Actually, lhs2TeX can do such transformations but it is quite limited in handling of parentheses and does not support more complicated transformations (transforming prefix

[Haskell-cafe] Re: Haddock Markup

2009-02-09 Thread Heinrich Apfelmus
Henning Thielemann wrote: I want for long to write math formulas in a paper in Haskell. Actually, lhs2TeX can do such transformations but it is quite limited in handling of parentheses and does not support more complicated transformations (transforming prefix notation in infix notation or