[Haskell-cafe] Haddock Markup

[Jonathan Cast]

On Fri, 2009-02-13 at 13:30 +1300, Richard O'Keefe wrote:
> Let's take this example from the web.
> <math> <mrow> <msup> <mi>x</mi><mn>2</mn> </msup> <mo>+</mo> <mrow>  
> <mn>4</mn><mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo><mi>x</mi> </mrow> <mo>+</mo>  
> <mn>4</mn> </mrow> </math>

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>
        <mi>x</mi>
        <mn>2</mn>
      </msup>
      <mo>+</mo>
      <mrow>  
        <mn>4</mn>
        <mo>&InvisibleTimes;</mo>
        <mi>x</mi>
      </mrow>
      <mo>+</mo>  
      <mn>4</mn>
    </mrow>
  </math>

Which is still unforgivably horrible.  I *think* it's trying to say $x^2
+ 4x + 4$, but I'm not confident even of that.  I'm also unconvinced
it's actually easier to parse than $x^2 + 4x + 4$.)

jcc