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Doxygen is a multilanguage documentation generation application for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL, Fortran, VHDL, PHP and C# that supports a wide variety of output formats including RTF, HTML, XML and PDF.

Documenting namespaces with Doxygen

I'm having issues with Doxygen recognizing namespaces and modules. I believe the issue surrounds whether to place the \addtogroup within …

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how do I run doxywizard?

I have successfully downloaded and installed doxygen. I am trying to run doxygen but am a little overwhelmed by the …

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Is Sphinx already suitable for C++ documentation?

I want to try out documentation generators for a new project in C++. I think my options are either Doxygen …

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How to set an input directory for Doxygen?

I have a directory in which all source and header files are saved. I would like to run Doxygen to …

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How do you create a line break in Doxygen markdown?

I'm having a hard time locating the documentation explaining how to add a line break in Doxygen markdown. I've tried …

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How to document python function parameter types?

I know that the parameters can be any object but for the documentation it is quite important to specify what …

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How to document all exceptions a function might throw?

If you have a public function which may throw an exception which uses other (private or public) helper functions which …

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Custom tags with Doxygen

I am trying to figure out if there is a way to create a custom tag using Doxygen. I did …

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Exclude some classes from doxygen documentation

I am building a Qt based project, and many Qt classes are found in the target documentation. How can I …

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Using Doxygen with C, do you comment the function prototype or the definition? Or both?

I'm using Doxygen with some embedded C source. Given a .c/.h file pair, do you put Doxygen comments on …

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