If I write some URL in source code comments like:
/**
* Here is an inline link [test](http://www.test.com).
* More information:
* test
*/
I enabled GENERATE_XML in Doxygen. This is what it generates:
<para>Here is an inline link [test](<ulink url="http://www.test.com">http://www.test.com</ulink>).
More information:
<ulink url="http://www.test.com">test</ulink> </para>
After converting the tags, I can create a Markdown content like:
Here is an inline link [test](http://www.test.com).
More information:
test
Note that the Markdown link [test](http://www.test.com) is polluted, which will break the link after I feed this into another Markdown processor. I need this as I want to write some markdown in comments, and extract it to some structured data formats for other tools to processing the markdown. I have disabled MARKDOWN_SUPPORT in Doxygen.
I have tried disable AUTOLINK_SUPPORT in doxyfile, but it can only disable internal type link to class/method/...
Solution for the mentioned problem, auto linking a web address, is to use [test](%http://www.test.com). By means of the % sign the (automatic) linking is suppressed.
In the documentation, paragraph "Step 3: Documenting the sources":
Links are created for words corresponding to documented classes (unless the word is preceded by a %; then the word will not be linked and the % sign is removed).
Note: in the above quote the wording is only for classes but it does work on other places as well. The same "problem" occurs in other places:
Description of AUTOLINK_SUPPORT
FAQ Doxygen automatically generates a link to the class MyClass somewhere
in the running text. How do I prevent that at a certain place?
Paragraph Links to classes
Paragraph "\%"
Related
I have a rather complex project and I want to document it using doxygen.
I have no problem documenting the code and I also managed to have a nice front-page using a custom README.md file coupled with "USE_MDFILE_AS_MAINPAGE = README.md" directive in Doxyfile.
I defined several groups (#defgroup) which show up as "Modules" in my documentation.
I would like to add a "main page" to each of the group giving general information, beside the customary function/variable/type documentation.
I tried adding custom MODULENAME.md files coupled with matching #includedoc MODULENAME.md entries in group definition, it seem to work (I see several lines like: "Generating docs for page md_mcu_noitr_coro_README..."), but I cannot find if and where the page is linked (I expected to see it in the "Detailed Description" for the module, as it happens if I put some documentation inline where I put the "#includedoc" directive.
a snippet of one of my modules is:
/**
* #file coro.h
* #brief definition of coroutine implementing functions.
*
* #date: Feb 8, 2018
* #author: myself
*
* #defgroup coro "Coroutine implementation in plain 'C'."
*
* #includedoc mcu_noitr/coro/README.md
* #{
*
*/
What am I doing wrong?
Note: it is also a bit surprising I need to put the whole path from where my Doxyfile is, otherwise doxygen won't find it even if it's right beside the file containing the #includedoc command.
I also came across the problem that included files with Markdown formatted text via \includedoc or \include{doc} does not result in correctly interpreted Markdown. Note that I included Markdown files from other Markdown files. My work-around was to use the C pre-processor (cpp) - which is widely available - on Markdown files and use it's #include directive. You could of course use a true general text processor such as M4 as suggested in the cpp man page. Set FILTER_PATTERNS in Doxyfile as:
FILTER_PATTERNS = *.md="cpp -P -traditional-cpp"
You'll need the -P option to avoid it outputting line markers, which confuses Doxygen. -traditional-cpp was needed to avoid cpp eating white space that is important for the correct interpretation of Markdown. Don't use single quotes as this results in an error when Doxygen calls cpp via sh.
Then in my Markdown main page:
Main Page {#mainpage}
==========
Blah blah blah.
#include "other.md"
Using FILTER_PATTERNS instead of INPUT_FILTER avoids the problem about not being allowed to add or remove lines.
I have my markdown files in the same directory, I would guess that if they are located in different places you could tell cpp about it via -I, which would address your expectations about include paths on the issue you filed.
At the moment doxygen does not consider the fact that commands like \includedoc can contain markdown code. At the moment the only possibility would be to write a filter, see configuration parateter INPUT_FILTER in the doxygen configuration file, (not tested!) to replace the \includedoc` with the code of that file.
Is there a way to customize the HTML output for an .ini configuration file with incorporated comments, as for example:
[MySection]
;This is an extensive description of MyParameter (possibly with #commands after semicolon?)
MyParameter=MyValue
Despite this is a special usage, I would like to have each parameter parsed/listed separately with description (and unit? and recommended value?). The file could also look like this:
[MySection]
;#brief A brief description
;#details A detailled description
;#unit cows (The physical unit of the parameter)
;#recommendedValue 5 cows
MyParameter=7
Currently, I'm including the .ini file with #include/#verbinclude - unfortunately, without syntax highlighting. Thanks.
OK, I'm assuming that you included the file using the FILE_PATTERNS tag, so that at least the file is listed in your documentation. Additionally you have to set EXTENSION_MAPPING tag to tell doxygen how to interpret this file. Unfortunately the INI file syntax is not supported by doxygen. At this point you have two possibilities:
Writing a custom input-filter (e.g. in perl) and add this as INPUT_FILTER
Varying the comments so that the doxygen parser gets a valid code corresponding to the programming language you have defined in EXTENSION_MAPPING.
For example if you have set EXTENSION_MAPPING = ini=C Then your inifile should look like this:
;/// #file myinifile.ini
;/// #brief A brief description.
;/// #details A detailled description.
;/// #unit cows (The physical unit of the parameter)
;/// #recommendedValue 5 cows
MyParameter=7
;
The additional slashes /// are needed to tell the doxygen parser that this line is a comment line which shall be processed by the doxygen.
Also note the last semicolon ; which is needed since the doxygen C parser is expecting a closing ; after each declaration.
To distinguish this question from Doxygen: Adding a custom link under the "Related Pages" section which has an accepted answer that is not a real answer to the question, I specifically add prewritten to the question.
What I want:
Write one document tex file (without preamble, since this file will be \input-ed into a full document)
Import the document into Doxygen's HTML output.
Using Doxygen to produce tex file will probably not work, since it does too much layout work [This holds for its HTML output too like empty table rows 2015]. If Doxygen takes some other input that can easily be transformed into LaTeX, that will do.
You can easily add an already existing Latex file to your doxygen documentation using \latexonly\input{yourfile}\endlatexonly.
I would assume you put it e.g. under a doxygen \page.
I'm updating some Doxygen documentation, and when Doxygen generates the code blocks for the documentation, it no longer puts the code in a block when it's surrounded by the \code and \endcode tags.
Original:
New:
The documentation was originally generated with 1.6.1, and the new documentation is using 1.8.1.2. Since the versions are different, do I now have to use the markdown syntax to generate the proper code blocks, or can I continue to use the \code tags?
No, \code..\endcode still works as always.
What is like the problem is that you use a custom page header or stylesheet (i.e. HTML_STYLESHEET or HTML_HEADER is not empty in the config file) and the newer version of doxygen started using different CSS tags to style the code block, and these are missing from your stylesheet.
Doxygen recently introduced a HTML_EXTRA_STYLESHEET option which you can use to overrule parts of the original stylesheet. I recommend to use that option instead of HTML_STYLESHEET.
I'm trying to document a C API which is all contained in a single C Header file. When I run doxygen, on the file, it's giving me errors for currently undocumented C Macros, but when I add the necessary documentation for macros, although the undocumented errors are cleared, the macros plus documentation do not appear in the doxygen generated html output.
Only a fraction of the documented header file, the structures, actually appears in any doxygen output. I can't see anything in configuration settings or documentation that would assist in clarifying why doxygen does not place documented code from the header file into its generated output.
Does anybody know why this would be the case?
See items 2 and 3 of the FAQ: http://www.doxygen.org/manual/faq.html
In short you are likely missing a comment block with #file to document your header file.