I am working on this project : https://sbl.inria.fr/doc, where the documentation is done with doxygen.
We were used to define the id of our sections with the symbol "-" to separate the words, for example :
\section sec-intro Introduction
However, it looks like the convention has changed since doxygen 1.8.15-git and only alpha-numerical characters are accepted, breaking almost all the pages in our documentation.
Unfortunately, we have a large number of pages, and before reviewing the whole documentation, I wanted to know if there is anything that I am missing, like a doxygen option to turn ON / OFF
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Here is a minimal example that does not work for me, with doxygen 1.8.15-git:
/**
\mainpage My Main Page
Abstract
\section home-intro Introduction
Intro
*/
//! Documented class test
class test{
};
I just create the configuration file and then run doxygen on the directory containing my .hpp file (so that there is no need to specify the path to my header) :
doxygen -g; doxygen
The main page on the output html contains "Abstract", but not the section, and there is a warning in the doxygen log :
test.hpp:6: warning: Invalid section id `home'; ignoring section
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It worked with doxygen 1.8.14. I cloned the project from the git repository, so I had the latest version. Using the tag version for the 1.8.14, it works fine. I changed the title.
I found the cause of the problem, it is a regression on:
Bug 740046 - Negative sign in -Foo::Bar ruins hyperlink in generated output
The github issue causing the problem is https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/pull/5677 and the pull request https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/pull/704.
The issue has been fixed in the proposed patch: https://github.com/doxygen/doxygen/pull/6388
Related
Some of my doxygen documentation need to refer to pages in the
company's wiki. I would prefer if these references resulted in working
hypertext links in the generated documentation. I could of course
achieve this by writing:
/// Name of page
or alternatively using Markdown syntax:
/// [Name of wiki page](http://long-URL.com/wiki/index.php?Name-of-page)
Unfortunately I have to give the full URL at every link in both cases,
and when (as has already happened) the base URL of our company/wiki
changes, all the URLs needs updating.
I therefore wonder if Doxygen has some support to avoid having to
hardcode the entire URL at every link?
For comparison, wikis use "InterMap" or "InterWiki", to define
prefixes that allow a shorthand notation for quickly referring to pages
on another web site. Example:
See WikiPedia:InterWiki_Links for more details.
So if possible I would like to let the Doxygen documentation contain
something like:
// See CompanyWiki:Name_of_wiki_page for bla bla
Some references:
Automatic link generation - http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/autolink.html
InterWiki - https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:Interwiki
PmWiki/InterMap - http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/PmWiki/InterMap
You could define an alias in the config file:
ALIASES += WikiPedia{2}="\2"
and then use it in your comments like so
See \WikiPedia{InterWiki_Links,Interwiki Links} for more details.
See also http://www.doxygen.org/manual/custcmd.html for more info.
Short version:
If I wanted to develop a completely new jsDoc template from scratch, what would I have to read to understand what jsDoc does, what interface my template must provide and what data I get to work with?
Long version:
I've been using jsDoc for a while now and have come across some tags that I would like to add and overview pages that I would like to have generated out of my documentation. Up to now I solved all my "user problems" with usejsdoc.org. I even managed to add a new jsdoc plugin that adds some tags. However, I can't find any developer documentation on how to create templates for jsdoc. I use ink-docstrap so I clicked my way through the template-folder (publish.js, /tmpl, etc.) and somehow got the idea of how everything works. But its very very time consuming.
What should I read to become a jsDoc template pro?
These instructions are the closest I could find:
To create or use your own template:
Create a folder with the same name as your template (for example, mycooltemplate).
Within the template folder, create a file named publish.js. This file must be a CommonJS module that exports a method named publish.
For example:
/** #module publish */
/**
* Generate documentation output.
*
* #param {TAFFY} data - A TaffyDB collection representing
* all the symbols documented in your code.
* #param {object} opts - An object with options information.
*/
exports.publish = function(data, opts) {
// do stuff here to generate your output files
};
To invoke JSDoc 3 with your own template, use the -t command line option, and specify the path to your template folder:
./jsdoc mycode.js -t /path/to/mycooltemplate
Failing that, you can read the source code!
I am running into a similar difficulty with lack of documentation. There is a GitHub issue that has been open for 7 years on this: Provide docs that explain how templates work.
The only example I've found so far of a custom template that doesn't look like just a modified version of the default is Ramda's documentation. It looks like they use a completely custom publish.js script that uses handlebars.js instead of underscore.js templates, constructs a non-hierarchical nav, pulls info from #sig and #category tags, and uses links to github for 'view source' instead of rendering its own html pages for source code.
Some of their code will be difficult to understand unless you are familiar with Ramda and functional programming (they use Ramda itself in their version of publish.js) but dumping out the values of data and docs during execution should help provide insight into what is going on.
It is helpful as well that their template is a single file so you don't have to jump between a lot of partial template files to follow how the doc is constructed.
I've just published my own new jsdoc theme. What I did is I simply copied the default template: https://github.com/jsdoc3/jsdoc/tree/master/templates/default, and worked on that.
I also managed to add grunt with the following features:
* transcompile + minify js files
* parse sass styles and minify them
* refresh the docs when you change something
You can see how it works here: https://github.com/SoftwareBrothers/better-docs
you can customize one of existing templates (default, haruki or silent):
go into node_modules/jsdoc/template and grab on of them into your app directory outside node_modules.
feel free to rename the dir ex: jsdoc-template.
open jsdoc-template update/customize the content as you want. ex: open publish.js find Home and replace My Js App.
update jsdoc.json by adding:
"opts": {
"template": "jsdoc-template"
}
another option to use one of those templates too: jsdoc3 template list examples
Followup to my previous comment about Ramda's JSDoc template. I've since created a customized version of it and published it on GitHub at https://github.com/eluv-io/elv-ramdoc
This is tailored for my company's projects, but it may be helpful as another learning tool. It adds a 'Show private' checkbox, updates Bootstrap to v5.13, replaces Handlebars with Pug, adds JSDoc comments to the publish.js script itself, and supports setting an environment variable to dump data to console during doc generation.
Currently I'm using this markdown text inside the README.md file of a project on GitHub:
See the docs of [testthat][3] on how to write unit tests.
Links
-----
- http://www.rstudio.com/products/rpackages/devtools/
- https://github.com/hadley/testthat
- http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html
---
[1]: http://www.rstudio.com/products/rpackages/devtools/
[2]: https://github.com/hadley/testthat
[3]: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html
I don't like this duplication, but I don't see what choice I have. If I remove the explicit bullet point lists, then GitHub won't display the reference links. If I remove the reference links, then GitHub shows the bullet point list (of course), but the embedded links like "testthat" above don't work.
Is there a better way than duplicating? What am I missing?
Inspired by #mb21, I suppose this would be the right way to do it:
See the docs of [testthat][2] on how to write unit tests.
Links
-----
- [RStudio Devtools][1]
- [testthat][2]
- [More unit test examples][3]
[1]: https://stackoverflow.com/users/214446/mb21
[2]: https://github.com/hadley/testthat
[3]: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html
That is, it's not a good practice to include links verbatim and without a meaningful title. I should keep the link URLs only in the reference links section at the bottom, and in the bullet point list use meaningful titles.
When you view this on GitHub, the URLs shouldn't really matter, and if you really want to know you can move the mouse over. When you view this in plain text, now the links have meaningful titles, which is useful additional information about the URLs.
I'd write that as follows:
See the docs of [testthat][1] on how to write unit tests.
Links
-----
- [RStudio Devtools](http://www.rstudio.com/products/rpackages/devtools/)
- [Testthat](https://github.com/hadley/testthat)
- [Tests][1]
[1]: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html
Did that answer your question? If not, you'll have to clarify it.
An answer from 8 years in the future!
The answer to your question will depend on what your Markdown parser supports. Nowadays, most parsers support CommonMark (plus some flavouring). However, don't take this for granted and double check it. If CommonMark is not supported, try using the "vanilla" Markdown syntax as described below. Just be aware that the "vanilla" Markdown specification is flawed and may result in broken links (by design, almost).
Using CommonMark
If you can guarantee that your Markdown parser supports CommonMark, then you can do it in a simple way:
Writing unit tests is explained in the [Unit Testing] website
[Unit Testing]: https://unittesting.somedomain.com
In the Links section of the CommonMark specification (currently at version 0.30) you see that a "link" is composed of a link text, link destination and a title and each one has its own syntax and quirks. For example, if the link destination contains spaces, you need to wrap it in <angled brackets>, or if your link text is some kind of code, you're allowed to write
[`AwesomeClass`](<../docs/awesome class.md>]
Note:
In this section I am using the CommonMark syntax, so you can click the
"Edit" button to see the syntax that I used for a "real" example.
Using vanilla Markdown
The vanilla Markdown specification simply requires an extra set of angled brackets with nothing in between, as described in the links section.
Writing unit tests is explained in the [Unit Testing][] website
[Unit Testing]: https://unittesting.somedomain.com
Note
And in this section I've only used vanilla Markdown syntax. Stack Overflow's Markdown parser supports both CommonMark and vanilla Markdown. This is not by accident, since CommonMark intends to be compatible with the original specification (wherever possible!). Stack Overflow do state that they use the CommonMark spec in their Markdown help page.
Tl;dr
See the docs of [`testthat`] on how to write unit tests.
Links
-----
- [RT Studio dev tools]
- [`testthat`]
- [R Packages]
---
[RT Studio dev tools]: http://www.rstudio.com/products/rpackages/devtools/
[`testthat`]: https://github.com/hadley/testthat
[R Packages]: http://r-pkgs.had.co.nz/tests.html
I'm using JSDoc tutorials, as described in http://usejsdoc.org/about-tutorials.html
I can't get the configuration options to work, and I haven't yet found any examples or discussion of the topic online.
In my trivial example, I pass a tutorials parameter to JSDoc, and it builds a tutorial file for tutorial1.md. I would like to give this tutorial a display name of "First Tutorial".
Following this from the online docs:
Each tutorial file can have additional .js/.json file (with same name, just different extension) which will hold additional tutorial configuration. Two fields are supported:
title overrides display name for tutorial with the one specified in it's value (default title for tutorial is it's filename).
children which holds list of sub-tutorials identifiers.
I tried several attempts at adding tutorial1.json, or tutorial1.js but either JSDoc pukes on the json file, or doesn't seem to recognize anything I throw at it in the js file.
Can anyone suggest a simple format for a tutorial configuration file that should work?
(Edited to include one .js file I tried, which did not change the tutorial display name.)
tutorial1.md
First Tutorial
================
tutorial1.js
/**
#title First Tutorial
*/
#title = "First Tutorial";
title = "First Tutorial";
It works with .json extension but not with a .js extension. jsdoc does not seem to try to even read the file if a .js extension is used. So the doc seems incorrect.
With a .json extension, and using jsdoc 3.2.2, the following works:
{
"title": "Custom Title"
}
Your .json file needs to be in the same directory as your .md file and have the same name (ignoring extensions).
I have a large amount of code that I'm running doxygen against. To improve performance I'm trying to break it into modules and merge the result into one set of docs. I thought tag files would do the trick, but either I have it configured wrong or I'm misunderstanding how it works.
The directories are laid out:
root +
|-src+
| |-a
|
|-doc+
|-a.dox
|-main.dox
|-main.md
|-output+
|-a+
| |-html
|-main+
|-html
In addition to 'a' there are other peer directories but am starting with one.
a.dox generates output and a tag file into root/doc/output
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=output/a
GENERATE_TAGFILE = output/a/a.tag
INPUT=../src/a
main.dox just inputs the markdown file that has a mainpage tag and refers to the other projects tag file.
OUTPUT_DIRECTORY=output/main
INPUT = main.md
TAGFILES=output/a/a.tag=output/a/html
Should this merge or link all the docs under main where I can browse 'a' globals, modules, pages, etc? Or does this only generate links to 'a' if I explicitly cross-reference a documented entity in 'a' from inside of 'main'?
If this should work, any thoughts on where my syntax is incorrect? I've tried various ways to define TAGFILES, is the output directory relative to the main.dox file? To the a.tag file? Or to the a/html directory?
If I'm off base an TAGFILES don't work this way, is there another way to merge sets of doxygen directories into one?
Thanks.
I suggest you read this topic on how I recommend to use tag files and the conditions that should apply: https://stackoverflow.com/a/8247993/784672
To answer your first question: doxygen will in general not merge the various index files together (then no performance would be gained). Although for a part you can still get external members in the index by setting ALLEXTERNALS to YES.
Doxygen will (auto)link symbols from other sources imported via a tag file. So in general you should divide your code into more or less self-contained modules/components/libraries, and if one such module depends on another, then import its tag file so that doxygen can link to the other documentation set. If you run doxygen twice (once for the tag file and once for the documentation) you can also resolve cyclic dependencies if you have them.
In my case I made a custom index page with links to all modules, and made a custom entry in the menu of each generated page that linked back to this index (see http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/customize.html#layout) how to add a user defined entry to the navigation menu/tree.