Difference between revisions of "Doxygen"

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What is Doxygen ?

Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources [1]

Generating the Doxygen documentation for Octave

Doxygen documentation for Octave is easily generated from Octave sources. Instructions can be found in doc/doxyhtml/README.

Where can I browse the Doxygen documentation for Octave ?

Alternatively, you can access version specific Doxygen documentation:

What is the current status of Octave's Doxygen documentation ?

Very little Doxygen documentation is currently available in Octave's source code. Which is why "Doxygen documentation for the C++ classes" is listed in the Projects page of this wiki.

Doxygen Style Guide

Doxygen allows for a variety of commenting styles. In order to maintain uniformity across the entire project the following rules should be applied:

For short Doxygen comments use //!
For longer comments use /*! ... */
For longer comments do not add * before each line
Use @ for any Doxygen Special Commands

An example of properly used Doxygen would look like:

//! Short Comment.
/*!
    Longer comment with special command and syntax highlighting:

    @code{.cc}
    double v = 1.0;
    @endcode
*/

For actual use example look at liboctave/array/Array.h

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 Very little Doxygen documentation is currently available in Octave's source code. Which is why "Doxygen documentation for the C++ classes" is listed in the [http://wiki.octave.org/Projects#Documentation_and_On-Line_Help Projects] page of this wiki.
+==== Doxygen Style Guide ====
+Doxygen allows for a variety of commenting styles. In order to maintain uniformity across the entire project the following rules should be applied:
+* For short Doxygen comments use {{codeline|//!}}
+* For longer comments use {{codeline|/*! ... */}}
+* For longer comments do not add {{codeline|*}} before each line
+* Use {{codeline|@}} for any Doxygen Special Commands
+An example  of properly used Doxygen would look like:
+<pre>
+//! Short Comment.
+/*!
+    Longer comment with special command and syntax highlighting:
+    @code{.cc}
+    double v = 1.0;
+    @endcode
+*/
+</pre>
+For actual use example look at [http://hg.savannah.gnu.org/hgweb/octave/file/1327ea4f5a93/liboctave/array/Array.h#l46 liboctave/array/Array.h]
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