[Haskell-cafe] haddock backends

[malcolm.wallace]

I believe the LaTeX backend for Haddock is used to generate the libraries part of the Haskell Report.
Regards,
    Malcolm

On 07 Jan, 2014,at 01:10 PM, Roman Cheplyaka <roma at ro-che.info> wrote:

* Mateusz Kowalczyk <fuuzetsu at fuuzetsu.co.uk> [2014-01-07 02:52:12+0000]
* This touches on frequently overlooked problem: Haddock targets more
than just the HTML back-end. We also have the LaTeX back-end and the
Hoogle back-end. This is why we don't allow things like verbatim
HTML in the markup, it doesn't make sense for anything but HTML.
Admittedly, LaTeX back-end could just generate the maths itself but
we then suddenly have to change the ‘verbatim’ block to the ‘LaTeX’
block. It's also unclear how Hoogle back-end would deal with this.
Even if we add the ‘LaTeX structure‘ to Haddock, I'm afraid that it
might end up with people just writing LaTeX for their documentation
which is useless for anyone not using that back-end.

I see no reason why haddock should have a hoogle backend, as opposed to
hoogle using the GHC API directly. It's just a hack that exists for
historical reasons.

Other than that, HTML is the only backend really in use at the moment,
I believe.

Roman
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