I chose what I believe to be the most clear and concise styles for this example that are also compatible with the standard Python docstring conventions. Once complete, you should see that it created an Across the top of the page, under the project title, you will see the Take a peak at the other menu options to get an idea of how the documentation is structured.
To structure and fomat the generated documentation, Doxygen provides a large number (> 170) of special commands. Doxygen is the de facto standard tool for generating documentation from annotated C++ sources, but it also supports other popular programming languages such as C, Objective-C, C#, PHP, Java, Python, IDL (Corba, Microsoft, and UNO/OpenOffice flavors), Fortran, VHDL and to some extent D. Doxygen can help you in three ways: All commands in the documentation start with a backslash () or an at-sign (@).For the brief description there are also several possibilities:And finally here an example for a full documentation of a function with doxygen:Detailed instructions on getting doxygen set up or installed.This modified text is an extract of the original Stack Overflow Documentation created by following Don’t pay too much attention to what it is actually doing, just how the comments are formatted for the various types of programming elements or pages.Now let’s create a documentation directory where our Doxygen based configuration and generated documentation will be located. Here you can find an example of a Doxyfile with which the above example was
To simplify the creation of a configuration file, doxygen can create a template configuration file for you. Think about anything that may be confusing to you down the road and make sure to capture those in either comments, docstrings, or the readme.
after the opening sequence of a C-style comment block:A third alternative is to use a block of at least two C++ comment lines, where each line starts with an additional slash or an exclamation mark:Some people like to make their comment blocks more visible in the documentation.
The first and most common one are C style comments with an extra asterisk in the comment start sequence, e.g.
See this 2-page PDFfor a nice listing of what you most often need. If a file with the name
If you are interested in learning more, please see the The Python project and Doxygen configuration file used for this tutorial are available on Thank you for joining me in this journey and I hope you enjoyed the experience. In order to generate source code based documentation using Doxygen, we first need to have source code for it to use. This would also be a good time to look at some of the other options available in the configuration file. Examples: >>> myfunction (2, 3) '5 - 0, whatever.' To do so, change the line, around line 198, fromTo optimize the generated documentation for Java and Python based source code, change the line around 280 fromNext, tell Doxygen to generally extract all elements found in the source code. Although this particular style is not explicitly being used in my example, it is a useful option to have enabled. :The next alternative is to use the Qt style and add an exclamation mark (!) tells what the extension of the html files should be (.htm or .html). Change the line around 464 fromThis setting will hide the scope name that is typically prepended to element names contained within that scope.