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diff --git a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
index 2a5ba2a706..a23dfe9ae6 100644
--- a/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
+++ b/gnu/packages/haskell.scm
@@ -1157,7 +1157,7 @@ them.")
(synopsis
"Support for manipulating Haskell source code")
(description
- "The 'haskell-src' package provides support for manipulating Haskell
+ "The @code{haskell-src} package provides support for manipulating Haskell
source code. The package provides a lexer, parser and pretty-printer, and a
definition of a Haskell abstract syntax tree (AST). Common uses of this
package are to parse or generate Haskell 98 code.")
@@ -2360,11 +2360,11 @@ literals.")
"Compression and decompression in the gzip and zlib formats")
(description
"This package provides a pure interface for compressing and decompressing
-streams of data represented as lazy 'ByteString's. It uses the zlib C library
-so it has high performance. It supports the 'zlib', 'gzip' and 'raw'
-compression formats. It provides a convenient high level API suitable for
-most tasks and for the few cases where more control is needed it provides
-access to the full zlib feature set.")
+streams of data represented as lazy @code{ByteString}s. It uses the zlib C
+library so it has high performance. It supports the @code{zlib}, @code{gzip}
+and @code{raw} compression formats. It provides a convenient high level API
+suitable for most tasks and for the few cases where more control is needed it
+provides access to the full zlib feature set.")
(license license:bsd-3)))
(define-public ghc-stm
@@ -2467,7 +2467,7 @@ are not exception safe and can be broken by @code{killThread}.")
"An efficient packed, immutable Unicode text type (both strict and
lazy), with a powerful loop fusion optimization framework.
-The 'Text' type represents Unicode character strings, in a time and
+The @code{Text} type represents Unicode character strings, in a time and
space-efficient manner. This package provides text processing
capabilities that are optimized for performance critical use, both
in terms of large data quantities and high speed.")
@@ -3800,10 +3800,10 @@ writing to stdout and other handles.")
"https://github.com/basvandijk/case-insensitive")
(synopsis "Case insensitive string comparison")
(description
- "The module 'Data.CaseInsensitive' provides the 'CI' type constructor
-which can be parameterised by a string-like type like: 'String', 'ByteString',
-'Text', etc.. Comparisons of values of the resulting type will be insensitive
-to cases.")
+ "The module @code{Data.CaseInsensitive} provides the @code{CI} type
+constructor which can be parameterised by a string-like type like:
+@code{String}, @code{ByteString}, @code{Text}, etc. Comparisons of values of
+the resulting type will be insensitive to cases.")
(license license:bsd-3)))
(define-public ghc-syb
@@ -3830,7 +3830,7 @@ to cases.")
(description "This package contains the generics system described in the
/Scrap Your Boilerplate/ papers (see
@uref{http://www.cs.uu.nl/wiki/GenericProgramming/SYB, the website}). It
-defines the 'Data' class of types permitting folding and unfolding of
+defines the @code{Data} class of types permitting folding and unfolding of
constructor applications, instances of this class for primitive types, and a
variety of traversals.")
(license license:bsd-3)))
@@ -4323,8 +4323,8 @@ interface.")
"https://github.com/haskell/network-uri")
(synopsis "Library for URI manipulation")
(description "This package provides an URI manipulation interface. In
-'network-2.6' the 'Network.URI' module was split off from the 'network'
-package into this package.")
+@code{network-2.6} the @code{Network.URI} module was split off from the
+@code{network} package into this package.")
(license license:bsd-3)))
(define-public ghc-ansi-terminal
@@ -5724,7 +5724,7 @@ using a simple box model.")
(description
"This package provides a @code{GHC.Generics}-based
@code{Control.DeepSeq.Generics.genericRnf} function which can be used for
-providing an 'rnf' implementation.")
+providing an @code{rnf} implementation.")
(license license:bsd-3)))
(define-public ghc-string-qq
@@ -9430,7 +9430,7 @@ the community, with the missing features being added with pull-requests.")
`(("ghc-rebase" ,ghc-rebase)))
(home-page "https://github.com/nikita-volkov/rerebase")
(synopsis "Reexports from ``base'' with many other standard libraries")
- (description "A rich drop-in replacement for ``base''. For details and
+ (description "A rich drop-in replacement for @code{base}. For details and
documentation please visit @uref{https://github.com/nikita-volkov/rerebase,
the project's home page}.")
(license license:expat)))