using haddock markup in Description field

[Henning Thielemann]

On Fri, 29 Feb 2008, Duncan Coutts wrote:

> On Fri, 2008-02-29 at 20:03 +0100, Henning Thielemann wrote:
>> I like to use Haddock markup like bird track (>) and enumerations (*) in
>> the Description field of a package.
>
> Yep,
>
>> However I can't get it working, the mentioned markup is simply ignored.
>
> Hmm, works for me:
>
> Description:
>        foo
>        .
>        > bar
>        .
>        * baz
>
> And the generated html documentation displays the markup as expected.
>
> For some reason we decided on a .cabal file format where blank lines are
> ignored and one needs '.' on a line to signal a blank line. I'm highly
> tempted to change that unless someone has a compelling reason.

Ah, that's the trick. Should be documented. I hoped to read about here:
  http://www.haskell.org/cabal/release/latest/doc/users-guide/x30.html#general-fields