[Haskell-cafe] GSoC Project Proposal: Markdown support for Haddock

[Aleksey Khudyakov]

On 5 April 2013 12:20, Andrew Butterfield
<Andrew.Butterfield at scss.tcd.ie> wrote:
>
> On 4 Apr 2013, at 22:53, Aleksey Khudyakov wrote:
>
>> If we are going to change haddock syntax we should add ability to add
>> math formulae to documentation. It's not currently possible and it makes
>> documenting numeric code properly difficult.
>
> How about support for .lhs files?
>  - both those with bird-tracks (which I don't use anymore)
>    and \begin{code}...\end{code} (which I do use).
>
> My .lhs files are also LaTeX sources - I guess some way to nicely integrate
> haddock markup/down/whatever with LaTeX stuff would be needed
>
I'm not sure that it would help. If we to use haddock markup it need to
support math typesetting. And LaTeX IMHO isn't right tool for creating
hyperlinked API reference