Hello, i just found out that our pdf doc output from hwloc has broken links for all references to \page and header files. I can open a bugzilla report, depending on comments. Would it make sense to open a feature request for that one. I have a main page in markdown format file mainpage. This forces you to use the command to reference them and avoids doxygen unwittingly linking to them. Doxygen can also visualize the relations between the various elements by means of include dependency graphs, inheritance diagrams, and collaboration diagrams, which are all generated automatically. Bankmann, unger documentation with doxygen december 15, 2014 8 9. A set of html files will be built in the folder html in your opensim build directory. This command tells doxgyen to insert a link to the specified page in this. My problem is, that links from the other pages to the main page readme. I guess doxygen would have to track what enums that are in scope, just as with class members. It is a reference for current and future developers to document the rdk system as it evolves. Yes, it is a single eclipse plugin eclox for doxygen, and with two other powerful tools. Joerg baumann, for adding conditional documentation blocks, pdf links, and the.
Note that the default doxygen configuration takes hours to build. These next few lines will form a comment block to start a new paragraph add an. The subdirectory doc within the main source directory contains makefile. They will typically contain a longer description of your project. Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects using doxygen. The module documentation ordering seems totally random. The goal of structuring documentation is to have the main page and subpages of larsoft doxygen page grouping the documentation in a sensible and usable way.
Sep 04, 2019 i am new to doxygen and i could not find the syntax for me to create a link from main page to a specific page in the related pages section. Doxygen latex pdf links point to page 1 stack overflow. Markup doxygen uses markdowns formatting syntax, e. Section automatic link generation shows how to put links to files, classes, and. I am new to doxygen and i could not find the syntax for me to create a link from main page to a specific page in the related pages section. In order to show the graphical capabilities of doxygen i created a sample project. Instead of putting the url inline, you can also define the link separately and then refer to it from within the text.
The executable doxygen is the main program that parses the sources and. Author my self date 9 sep 2012 here typically goes a more extensive explanation of what the header defines. Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. All structured data from the file and property namespaces is available under the creative commons cc0 license.
There is html generated, but nothing is documented here. How to create pdf document from doxygen how to create pdf documentation with doxygen miktex automatically let us suppose you need to make api reference guide with doxygen as a pdf file. The doxygen sources are currently hosted at github, where the main developer, dimitri van heesch, contributes under the user name doxygen. I was expecting my two functions to be documented here. Doxygen supports a number of output formats where html is the most popular one.
Postscript, hyperlinked pdf, compressed html, and unix man pages. You may want to link to these pages instead of generating the documentation in your local output directory. This page provides background and instructions to setup the doxygen documentation sytem. Guide to using doxygen opensim documentation global site. These are part of a larger list of projects that use doxygen. Although doxygen also has a command to start such a section see section \sa, it does allow you to put these kind of links anywhere in the documentation. This attribute can be used to customize the title doxygen will use as a header for the piece. Introduction the purpose of this page is to provide a uniform style of doxygen commenting for the rdk system. The link command should end with an \endlink command. For documentation a reference to the page number is written instead of a link. Is it something that could be done in a future version of doxygen. There are a number of ways to put in comment blocks that you can read about in the doxygen manual. Doing so can cause broken links in the generated output. I would have expected to get some way to modify this line without passing through all the html files.
All these problems are solved with doxygen, because doxygen is mainly just comments in the source code that in a result, you can build all the documentation needed html pages, manpages, pdf s, etc up to date with the code. It is very hard and even impossible to not have the api documented to day with the code using doxygen. Also, explain any nontrivial design decisions you make. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Doxygen creating links in and between markdown filespages. Second reference can be created to thorugh the page to link to the section.
Some documentation may be available outside of the output directory of. Progress will be displayed, please wait till doxygen has finished is displayed. If you know other projects, let me know and ill add them. If the \mainpage command is placed in a comment block the block is used to. Doxygen is a popular tool to document your code, i. Doxygen is the tool that was used to create html and pdf documentation for rbelib. For this i am creating a main page and a few other pages, which will contain links between each other like shown in this post and in the doxygen documentation. The nodes of the graph can be made hyperlinks as it is demonstrated in the sample project. Doxygen itself uses dot graphs to generate the class inheritance and call graph diagrams. Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. In the example given above, note the link entitled mainpage pointing to. In order to generate the dot diagrams you need to have dot utility installed. For latexpdf we can live without, but it sure would be a.
The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. In the last article of the doxygen miniseries well go over a couple of options how to include diagrams and images in doxygen documentation. It is installed on all of the lab computers already and if you want to set it up on your computer you can look here. Doxygen markdown links to main page do not work stack overflow. For an example, the doxygen source for this style guide can be found in docmanualstyle.
There are three ways you can use that file to get a book out of doxygen. The doxygen manual says you should only use lowercase words for the names of pages, sections or subsections. 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. All words in the documentation that correspond to a documented class will automatically be replaced by a link to the page containing the documentation of the class. If the headerfile is specified, a link to a verbatim copy of the header will be. It is often useful to divide a doxygen page into sections and subsections. The doc subdirectory also contains three directories. Links to web pages and mail addresses doxygen will automatically replace any urls and mail addresses found in the documentation by links in html. You can refer to the main page using \ref index if the treeview is disabled, otherwise you should use \ref main. The links that are automatically generated by doxygen always have the name of the object they point to as linktext.
Documents produced by doxygen are derivative works derived from the input used in their production. Edn 7 tips for documenting embedded code with doxygen. The \ link command can be used to create a link to an object a file, class, or member with a user specified linktext. This page will introduce you to navigating the online doxygen pages and orientate you to the structure and language used. Furthermore, the index at the end of the document can be used to quickly find the documentation of a member, class, namespace or file. May 21, 2012 table of contents 1 what is doxygen 1. Guide to using doxygen doxygen is an automated documentation system for available classes and methods. When doxygen is finished processing, in the latex directory theres a file called refman. At the moment the following generic tags are possible for each page. The source file of the main page, the socalled master document, of the web site must be named index.
Your development environment should have make tool. Doxygen documentation is generated by right clicking on the doxygen project in your compiler visual studio and selecting build. You can also use doxygen for creating normal documentation as i did for the doxygen user manual and website. Contribute to doxygen doxygen development by creating an account on github. Below i show how to insert images such that they appear in both html and pdfs generated by latex. Doxygen is used to parse the source code for suitable comment blocks to automatically generate clean freespace 2 open documentation in a number of formats. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. If you need help setting it up you can ask a staff member for some help. In the new window that has opened you should see doxygen.
It is highly recommended that you document your code. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know. Doxygen automatically generates a link to the class myclass somewhere in the running text. Unfortunately this will cause extra related 20 pages to be generated. The structure of doxygen documentation ales nosek the.
Ive gathered some nice examples of reallife projects. Diagrams and images in doxygen ales nosek the software. Easy documentation using doxygen wintergreen works. Currently, i have that working for html output, with the following directory structure. File containing example of doxygen usage for quick reference. For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. Integrating doxygen with eclipse theolindmahm3lib wiki. See the gnu general public license for more details. The \link command can be used to create a link to an object a file, class, or member with a user specified linktext. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albert. Glast software has adopted doxygen as our code documentation tool. Pages in doxygen are used for documentation that is not directly attached to the source code entity like class, file or member. This page will give you a basic summary of some of the things youll need to know about doxygen. This page contains information on configuration and tagging of files for doxygen documentation.
The code is instrumented with doxygen and has toplevel doxygen main page, etc the design document talks about code modules, files, classes and functions. Birdseye view of how doxygen works there are two main steps in using doxygen. Diagrams and images liven up technical documentation and help the reader to better understand the subject. A tag file typically only contains a relative location of the documentation from the point. A special case of a page group is the main page group. Note that the actual documentation consists in comments you write in the header file. Doxygen will then remove the and keep the word unlinked. If doxygen is in your path simply issue the command. And is there any place where styles, examples, and recommendations for arranging documentation are discussed or displayed other than this list and the examples on the doxygen site. The doxygen command \mainpage within a comment block places the documentation within that block on the index page of the generated documentation. If you just want to build the doxygen pages in the doc directory make the following.