[Haskell-cafe] Haddock - How to write formulas ?

Antonio Nikishaev me at lelf.lu
Tue Jan 7 12:18:51 UTC 2014


Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> writes:

> On 07/01/14 01:42, Carter Schonwald wrote:
>> I would really love to use MathJax in the haddock HTML backend. Is there
>> any way (however hacky) that I could do that?
>
> I looked up how MathJax is used and as far as I can tell, it's just
> the case of putting the MathJax JavaScript header into the file,
> right? We already use JavaScript on the Haddock-generated HTML pages,
> for example the synopsis box.
>
> While I prefer JavaScript-free web I think that for viewing on
> Hackage, it'd be possible to just stick the header into the generated
> files and be done with it. Here are some caveats:
>
> * You suddenly allow for part of documentation to be rendered by
>   someone else, over the Internet. The problem is that documentation
>   suddenly becomes worse for everyone browsing without JavaScript or
>   browsing locally, without an Internet connection. Embedding images
>   avoids both of these problems.

No. It's rendered in the browser.



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lelf



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