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

[Mateusz Kowalczyk]

On 07/01/14 12:18, Antonio Nikishaev wrote:
> 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.
> 

It still requires an Internet connection, does it not? Many people
prefer to browse without JavaScript anyway (myself included) and if the
documentation suddenly requires JavaScript to view properly, this is a
problem.

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Mateusz K.