HADDOCK

Section: Haddock documentation generator (1)
Updated: July 2010
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NAME

haddock - documentation tool for annotated Haskell source code

SYNOPSIS

haddock [options] file...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents briefly the haddock command. Extensive documentation is available in various other formats including DVI, PostScript and HTML; see below.

file is a filename containing a Haskell source module. All the modules specified on the command line will be processed together. When one module refers to an entity in another module being processed, the documentation will link directly to that entity.

Entities that cannot be found, for example because they are in a module that is not being processed as part of the current batch, simply will not be hyperlinked in the generated documentation. haddock will emit warnings listing all the identifiers it could not resolve.

The modules should not be mutually recursive, as haddock does not like swimming in circles.

OPTIONS

The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options starting with two dashes (`--'). A summary of options is included below. For a complete description, see the other documentation.

-o DIR, --odir=DIR

directory in which to put the output files

-i FILE, --read-interface=FILE

read an interface from FILE.

-D FILE, --dump-interface=FILE

dump an interface for these modules in FILE.

-l DIR, --lib=DIR

location of Haddock's auxiliary files

-h, --html

Generate documentation in HTML format. Several files will be generated into the current directory (or the specified directory if the -o option is given), including the following:

index.html: The top level page of the documentation: lists the modules available, using indentation to represent the hierarchy if the modules are hierarchical.
haddock.css: The stylesheet used by the generated HTML. Feel free to modify this to change the colors or layout, or even specify your own stylesheet using the --css option.
module.html: An HTML page for each module.
doc-index.html, doc-index-XX.html: The index, split into two (functions/constructors and types/classes, as per Haskell namespaces) and further split alphabetically.

--hoogle

output for Hoogle

--html-help=format

produce index and table of contents in mshelp, mshelp2 or devhelp format (with -h)

--source-base=URL

Include links to the source files in the generated documentation, where URL is the base URL where the source files can be found.

-s URL, --source-module=URL

Include links to the source files in the generated documentation, where URL is a source code link for each module (using the %{FILE} or %{MODULE} vars).

--source-entity=URL

Include links to the source files in the generated documentation, where URL is a source code link for each entity (using the %{FILE}, %{MODULE} or %{NAME} vars).

--comments-base=URL

URL for a comments link on the contents and index pages.

--comments-module=URL

URL for a comments link for each module (using the %{MODULE} var).

--comments-entity=URL

URL for a comments link for each entity (using the %{FILE}, %{MODULE} or %{NAME} vars).

--css=FILE

Use the CSS FILE instead of the default stylesheet that comes with haddock for HTML output. It should specify certain classes: see the default stylesheet for details.

-p FILE, --prologue=FILE

Specify a file containing prologue text.

-t TITLE, --title=TITLE

Use TITLE as the page heading for each page in the documentation. This will normally be the name of the library being documented.

The title should be a plain string (no markup please!).

-k NAME, --package=NAME

Specify the package name (optional).

-n, --no-implicit-prelude

do not assume Prelude is imported

-d, --debug

Enable extra debugging output.

-?, --help

Display help.

-V, --version

Display version.

-v, --verbose

Verbose status reporting.

--use-contents=URL

Use a separately-generated HTML contents page.

--gen-contents

Generate an HTML contents from specified interfaces.

--use-index=URL

Use a separately-generated HTML index.

--gen-index

Generate an HTML index from specified interfaces.

--ignore-all-exports

Behave as if all modules have the ignore-exports atribute

--hide=MODULE

Behave as if MODULE has the hide attribute.

--use-package=PACKAGE

The modules being processed depend on PACKAGE.

FILES

/usr/bin/haddock
/usr/share/haddock-2.6.1/html/plus.gif
/usr/share/haddock-2.6.1/html/minus.gif
/usr/share/haddock-2.6.1/html/haskell_icon.gif
/usr/share/haddock-2.6.1/html/haddock.js
/usr/share/haddock-2.6.1/html/haddock.css
/usr/share/haddock-2.6.1/html/haddock-DEBUG.css

COPYRIGHT

Haddock version 2.6.1

AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Michael Weber <michaelw@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).