Now i am following your post using doxygen with matlab and download doxygenmatlab package. Various output file formats like html, latex and pdf are supported. Click on a class name to see the documentation for that class, including inheritance diagram, function listing, and. You can refer to the image below from the official doxygen homepage. Software package for the development of stateoftheart nonlinear models. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. The thing is that doxygen only generates documentation for the first header file. Wrong character encoding in htmlhelp contents origin. As i mention in comments to the op the easiest solution is probably to create a symbolic link or shortcut to the index. Using doxygen, a developer can create the document using doxygen gui or doxygen command. Apr 18, 2010 software documentation with doxygen this is a good practice to always have uptodate software documentation. This makes your life easier not only for potential users of your code, but also for you, if you are going to reuse your code after a long period of time. Adding uml diagrams to doxygen documentation thoughts on.
How to programming with doxygen how to build software. Contribute to doxygendoxygen development by creating an account on github. Given that the project web site and manuals are generated by sphinx and only the more advanced reference documentation is generated by doxygen, this one directional linking of documentation pages is sufficient for most use cases. Does doxygen support templates for the html output. Doxygen will compare the file name with each pattern and apply the. Sep 12, 2019 therefore, the most important doxygen tag is the image tag. Sep 29, 2010 software source code browsing using doxygen posted on september 29, 2010 by lucky frequently, software developers need to walk through software source codes, they are working on, for various reasons, such as for understanding the code flow or for debugging a particular problem.
Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. Doxygen will then generate output that is more tailored for fortran. Option settings output format enables local customizations source code embedded comments including optional html tags and entities external text files and images doxygen tag files referencing another components doxygen documentation. Click on a class name to see the documentation for that class, including inheritance diagram, function listing, and function call graphs. It is capable of generating an html file as well as a reference. Embedding documentation into your python projects duration. This tag can be used to specify the character encoding of the source files that. Tool for automatic analysis and documentation of software i easily write structured and readable documentations with pleasant. This started as work done by stratify labs and was extended further here. This tag can be used to specify the encoding used in the generated output. Therefore, the most important doxygen tag is the image tag. Jun 25, 2012 with doxygen my project sources are the documentation. Thankfully, even if this is not the case it can still produce documentation that can be useful for understanding a mass or mess of code.
Linking to external documentation if your project depends on external libraries or tools, there are several reasons to not include all sources for these with every run of doxygen. Whenever documentation exists in a seperate file it always seems to drift away from the code. For example it allows the write the german umlauts directly into the document. After doxygen has finished appears in the log, click show html output. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference. Pages in doxygen are used for documentation that is not directly attached to the source code entity like class, file or member.
For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. As you can see, doxygen reads a so called layout file. Latex math formulas can also be embebded to generate output for the html page. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. The first post we are cover gui only and next post will cover doxygen command. Here is how to configure doxywizard to produce chm files. Doxygen will invoke the filter program by executing via popen the command. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation under the terms of the gnu. How do i get it to document all of the files i specify. The structure of doxygen documentation ales nosek the. The following output formats are indirectly supported by doxygen. Doxygen will use this information to generate all constant output in the proper language.
Utf8 how to fix encoding of doxygen produced tex files. Software source code browsing using doxygen binary junction. Some documentation may be available outside of the output directory of doxygen already, for instance somewhere on the web. Note that the actual documentation consists in comments you write in the header file. Mar 20, 2007 automatic documentation of python code using doxygen posted in technology, writing better documentation by engtech on march 20, 2007 all programming is maintenance programming, meaning that the most value comes from programming code that can be picked up and maintained by someone else. In the doxygen manual the arguments are described as follows. Installation is very simple, just drag the doxygen icon from this folder to the applications folder, or wherever you.
Compressed html chm files are a convenient medium to view and browse through documentation on windows. You can also generate doxygen through a configuration file, which is typically how developers run doxygen builds from a server. Configure the rest of the wizard settings as usual. This symlinkshortcut can then be placed in the root directory of your project or elsewhere, pointing to. Doxygen will then generate output that is more tailored for c. I downloaded the binary distribution for mac os x called doxygen 1. Doxygen is a tool for writing software reference documentation. Thus it would be good to know that, even though theres no specific option for setting doxygen.
Automatic documentation of python code using doxygen. I have a project that i have formatted for doxygen. Documentationdoxyfile at master su2codedocumentation github. Automatic project documentation anilkumarup project management december 19, 2014 1 minute. Certain information is encoded using so called fields.
Installation is very simple, just drag the doxygen icon from. Doxygen does not support something like html templates out of the box, as far as i know. The following output formats are directly supported by doxygen. In addition to basic information gathered from noncomment portions of the source files i. Doxygen will then use the output that the filter program writes to standard output. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. Dec 19, 2014 a dashboard for discussing and sharing good software development topics doxygen latex pdf using miktex.
The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and generates the. It is a compiler which compiles source or text files and extracts the embedded information. The order of the extra style sheet files is of importance e. For creating the document, we are going to cover the doxygen utility. It shows the input and output files that are related into the entire documentation creation workflow. Unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 9 9. The latter only for the html output, which, however, is the most commonly used and preferred output format. This tag specifies the encoding used for all characters in the config file. Doxygen provides a handful of ways to customize the output. I downloaded the binary distribution for mac os x called doxygen1.
We are going to cover both ways generate the document. They will typically contain a longer description of your project. It can generate html output andor pdf output as well as a few other types. Included patch to handle program statement in fortran as subroutines functions. I just wanted to share my doxygen tool configuration file for generating documentations for octave source tree. Using doxygen with matlab file exchange matlab central. Im also still not overly sure if this is a doxygen, tex or windows issue that causes the. Doxygen usage example for c i have been using doxygen for a while now, but i keep forgetting bit and pieces of it. All programming is maintenance programming code and documentation should always go hand in hand. The latex inputenc package is responsible for the character encoding of the latex source documents. Find html output and set its value to html edit function matlabdocmaker. However, you can make this even more useful by embedding documentation on how to use your classes right in the code itself.
See the doxygen downloads page for more download links. However, there can be discrepancy between the source code and the documentation over time and maintenance may be an issue. Doxygen is a tool which allows to generate documentation from source code. Firstly i generate it by simply editing the doxygen. Doxygen can produce documentation of source code in the chm format. Configuration options related to the html output doxygen manual. The problem is when using these characters, the generated file replaces these characters by unknown characters. Software source code browsing using doxygen posted on september 29, 2010 by lucky frequently, software developers need to walk through software source codes, they are working on, for various reasons, such as for understanding the code flow or for debugging a particular problem. Some functions will filter invalid sequences from the string, some will simply fail. A dashboard for discussing and sharing good software development topics doxygen latex pdf using miktex. This is a guide for automatically generating documentation off of python source code using the opensource tool doxygen. All strings in pulseaudio are in the utf8 encoding, regardless of current locale. Doxygen is using the comments in the code to generate the documentation.
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