First, well describe what we expect to see and then talk about the specific commands that you need to use including simple examples. The doxygen manual says you should only use lowercase words for the names of pages, sections or subsections. How to document python code with doxygen stack overflow. The following are examples of documented methods using doxygen style in the.
This forces you to use the command to reference them and avoids doxygen unwittingly linking to them. Select doxyblocksextract documentation to generate and view the documentation. Creation dune documentation a laide du doxygen wizard. Where doxygen is the name of file we generated earlier. Doxygen uses the dot tool to generate the following graphs. The idea is to accumulate examples in there and use it as a quick reference. Aug 31, 2015 the rest of this document talks about the doxygen commands that you need for each of the two kinds. Documenting api inputoutput examples siyuan jiang, ameer armaly, collin mcmillan, qiyu zhi, and ronald metoyer.
Parameter name, before function call, and after func. The options work as advertised on the html output, but for the latexpdf output the \include outputs with line numbers. And finally here an example for a full documentation of a function with doxygen. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Here is an example file which from im trying to generate the documentation.
Doxygen doxygenusers \include inserts line numbers. Lastly there will be a larger example showing all of commands together. The options work as advertised on the html output, but for the latex pdf output the \include outputs with line numbers. The generated documentation makes easier to navigate and understand the code as it may contain all public functions, classes, namespaces, enumerations, side notes and code examples. Part 3 is an inputoutput example created by our tool. Now you will find two directories in the place where your files were present. For instance, the html docs will be in docdoxygenhtml. As i mention in comments to the op the easiest solution is probably to create a symbolic link or shortcut to the index. Pdf output instead of dvi, or the pdf can be produced from postscript using.
The section minor tweaks discusses what to do if you want to do minor tweaking to the look and feel of the output. Now ive noticed that all the structs are listed twice in the classes list see the attached small screenshot, once with and once without a documentation both links point to the same documentation page. I will now start to strip everything from the doxyfile that is not needed to reproduce. Sometimes doxygen just stops generating documentation at some point. The section xml output show how to generate whatever output you want based on the xml output produced by doxygen. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format. Learning doxygen for source code documentation ibm developer. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual doxygendoxygen. Here are a number of examples of html output generated by doxygen.
This example only deals with how the doxygen comments should be used. I searched through the doxygen archives and found a post from 2008 stating, that doxygen cant include source code in the pdf file, but this is probably outdated. What is going wrong is that when latex output is generated, no refman. You will have the options to output your documentation to html, latex, man. After a fairly short interval, doxygen opens up your favorite browser with documentation like that shown in the following figure. Doxygen uses special comments to flag keywords that help the tool create documentation. Like javadoc, doxygen extracts documentation from source file comments. This symlinkshortcut can then be placed in the root directory of your project or elsewhere, pointing to. Generated files are output into separate sub directories of docdoxygen in the build directory, based on the output format. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albertgithub. Generated files are output into separate sub directories of docdoxygen in the build directory, based. I guess that somewhere in your autogenerated latex documents there are special characters. There are two different styles you can use for doxygen comments again, stolen shamelessly from the doxygen page the qt style, where special documentation blocks look like. The directory contains one or more reference files that are compared against the xml output produced by doxygen.
Some messages about default to 91 can be ignored by hitting enter key. It can generate an online documentation browser in html andor an offline reference manual in from a set of documented source files. Doxygen tutorial csci 102l, spring 2011, section 30349r what is doxygen. In addition to the javadoc syntax, doxygen supports the documentation tags used in the qt toolkit and can generate output in hypertext markup language as well as in microsoft compiled html help chm, rich text format rtf, portable document format pdf, latex, postscript or man pages. Doxygen is not very user friendly when it comes to input errors. Tips for writing doxygen documentation rosettacommons. It allows you to specially tag comments in your code that will be used to generate nicely formatted output such as html. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. Use these commands to see the generated html documentation. To first step in using doxygen to insert doxygen style comments into your code.
Here you can find an example of a doxyfile with which the above example was generated. Doxygen combines the rtf output to a single file called refman. At last count, the pdf file is over three thousand pages. Doxygen offers two options when including examples. The examples together show many of the features of doxygen. Apparently there were no errors on doxygen log only warnings.
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. This section provides an overview of what doxygen is, and why a developer might want to use it. Configuration file well documented, you just need to fill in the blanks. For line comment just insert a triple forward slash. Im trying to generate pdf from source files using doxygen and miktex also tex live tested but with no success. However, theres no standard for installing html andor pdf files, so the automake rules only know to install man pages. Doxygen users seem to rely on htmlpdf documentation. This file is optimized for importing into the microsoft word. See the breathe project for an example that uses doxygen xml output from python to bridge it with the sphinx document generator. A graphical representation of the class hierarchy will be drawn, along with the textual one.
Doxygen is a tool that can generate project documentation in html, pdf or latex from code comments formatted with doxygen markup syntax. Pdf generated from the output by running make pdf in the output directory. The rest of this document talks about the doxygen commands that you need for each of the two kinds. In order to generate pdf output or use scientific formulas you will also need to install.
The section layout show how to reorder and hide certain information on a page. To structure and fomat the generated documentation, doxygen provides a large number 170 of special commands. To follow along with example templates, configuration files, and the like, click here. Generation of io example iopresent input for our tool. You can use other styles of documentation with doxygen, but the javadoc style is the most popular. A black box indicates that the class documentation is currently shown. The order of the extra style sheet files is of importance e. Doxygen usage example for c matteo franchins corner. Have fun with it and feel free to modify it according to your needs. Doxygenusers \include inserts line numbers for latexpdf. Im trying to generate a pdf documentation of our project here.
To see the latex output, move out of this directory by using these commands. Im hoping this is just a question of finding out how to enable these output options can someone can tell me exactly what steps we need to take to convert doxygen latex output hope ive understood things thus far. Aug 23, 2018 doxygentest source where pdf is not generating doxygentest2 source where pdf is generating doxygentestoutput output for test 1 go to the latex and find output. To improve the pdf output, you typically would want to enable the. However, since doxygen is rarely used to generate man pages, support this output format is very basic. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Hello world, i am documenting a couple of idl files. For the example above the texlivextab package needs to be installed. Confusingly enough, doxygen accepts several different standards, but the default is the one that looks most like javadoc, the comment, which is fine. Doxygenusers missing refman tex file for pdf output. It has been designed as an intermediate format that can be used to generate new and customized output without having to modify the doxygen source. There is also support for generating output in rtf msword, postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and. Be warned the pdf file generated via doxygen is extremely large.
In this case the makefile will only contain a target to build refman. A dark blue arrow indicates an include relation for the include dependency graph or public inheritance for the other graphs. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an empty line to end the comment block. Doxygentest source where pdf is not generating doxygentest2 source where pdf is generating doxygentestoutput output for test 1 go to the latex and find output. For pdf output, pdflatex is required as well as a number of tex packages such as texlivextab and texlivetocloft.
The following output formats are directly supported by doxygen. The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. If the result is the same, there is no regression and the test passes. Glast software has adopted doxygen as our code documentation tool. Doxygen will create a html, rtf, latex andor man directory inside the output. Creating documentation using doxygen in ubuntu ranvir singh. For the graphs generated with dot doxygen tries to limit the width of the resulting image to 1024 pixels. This line will be included in the doxygen comments for this functionclassfile. If there is a difference the test fails and the difference in diff u format will be shown. For this reason, i put together one single c header file which contains some doxygen code snippets. The inputoutput example is a table with three columns. There are a number of ways to put in comment blocks that you can read about in the doxygen manual.
Doxygen tutorial csci 102l, spring 2011, section 30349r. Jul 08, 2016 where doxygen is the name of file we generated earlier. How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Doxygen the wellautomated arduino library adafruit. For example it allows the write the german umlauts directly into the document. 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. For an example, the doxygen source for this style guide can be found in docmanualstyle. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albert.
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