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What is doxygen format?

What is doxygen format?

Doxygen (/ˈdɒksidʒən/ DOK-see-jən) is a documentation generator and static analysis tool for software source trees. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code.

How do I document doxygen?

In order to generate doxygen based documentation, you need to follow four steps:

  1. have the doxygen executable installed on your computer (this is already done on our DESY machines)
  2. document your code.
  3. create a configuration file.
  4. run doxygen to create the documentation (HTML or LaTeX based).

What are doxygen tags?

Tags are used inside a doxygen comment to document special parts of the source code (such as a function return type or a function parameter), or to designate additional information (such as author and version number) that you wish to appear as part of the documentation.

How do I show code in doxygen?

You can put example source code in a special path defined in the doxygen config under EXAMPLE_PATH , and then insert examples with the @example tag. Doxygen will then generate an extra page containing the source of the example. It will also set a link to it from the class documentation containing the example tag.

Can Doxygen generate markdown?

Including Markdown files as pages Doxygen can process files with Markdown formatting. For this to work the extension for such a file should be . md or .

How use Doxygen command line?

How to run doxygen:

  1. Start command prompt (type in “cmd” in the taskbar search window).
  2. Change to the root directory where the PALISADE code resides (you should have lbcrypto-doxy-config file there).
  3. Then type in “c:\doxygen\bin\doxygen.exe lbcrypto-doxy-config” and press Enter.

How do I view Doxygen documents?

The generated HTML documentation can be viewed by pointing a HTML browser to the index. html file in the html directory.

Why is doxygen used?

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How do I install doxygen?

How to setup doxygen windows

  1. Run the executable doxygen-1.8.
  2. Click Next, then “Accept the agreement”.
  3. Specify the path for installation.
  4. Select “Full Installation” (default option) and click “Next”.
  5. Click Next.
  6. Click Install.
  7. When the installation is done, click Next, and then Finish.

Can doxygen generate PDF?

Once you have all the prerequisites installed, and a good version of doxygen, the simpler procedure should work every time. The generated file will be refman. pdf unless it’s configured otherwise.

Can I configure doxygen from the command line?

How do I install Doxygen?

Are there two types of documentation in Doxygen?

For each code item there are two types of descriptions, which together form the documentation: a brief description and detailed description, both are optional. Having more than one brief or detailed description however, is not allowed.

Where do I find the comments in Doxygen?

The one-line comments contain a brief description, whereas the multi-line comment blocks contain a more detailed description. The brief descriptions are included in the member overview of a class, namespace or file and are printed using a small italic font (this description can be hidden by setting BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC to NO in the config file).

How can I do it using Doxygen?

I am creating a Doxygen document for my project. Recently, I have grouped related classes using \\addtogroup tag. After this, I have got a module tab in my documentation. It shows all modules. I want to add some description right below module name below the module name on the same page. How can I do it using Doxygen ?

When to use an exclamation mark in Doxygen?

A third alternative is to use a block of at least two C++ comment lines, where each line starts with an additional slash or an exclamation mark. Here are examples of the two cases: