The documentation is written within code, and is thus relatively easy to keep up to date. One big advantage of using xml is that you can easily connect it to other sources. Doxygen is a utility that extracts documentation from source files. Using weasyprint with untrusted html or untrusted css may lead to various security problems. The latter only for the html output, which, however, is the most commonly used and preferred output format. The main advantage of doxygen is that you can write documentation directly within the comments of your source code. To integrate documentation produced by doxygen from your source files tell doxygen to produce xml output get it via macports. This tag allows one to insert an image into the documentation. You dont need to configure and run doxygen manually in. Apply css styles and obtain the pdf output using either antenna house, prince xml or. Calling doxygen with the help option at the command line will give you a brief description of the usage of the program all options consist of a leading character, followed by one character and one or more arguments depending on the option to generate a manual for your project you typically need to follow these steps. Doxygen is a useful tool to automatically generate documentation for code. It extracts comments from program sources, and generates different output formats. Section installation discusses how to download, compile and install doxygen for your platform.
It is highly recommended that you document your code. This quick hack does not include all style sheet changes to make every possible doxygen output look like qt docs. This started as work done by stratify labs and was extended further here. Possible solutions include dblatex, xmlto, or prince. Tutorial weasyprint 51 documentation read the docs. 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. Doxygen allows you to customize the html output by modifying a master html header, footer and stylesheet. It can produce beautiful documentation if the code comments are written in its custom format.
Add the examples a shown in the html chm documentation also to the latex pdf documentation. Section documenting the code demonstrates the various ways that. This is a quick hack for a doxygen css stylesheet which makes the doxygen output look like a normal qt5 documentation. Any idea of what is going on, why the pdf generation is failing when the html was generated ok. In the previous article i explained how to create a pdf file from docbook xml. Ive tried it with an existing code base and i am able to generate a docbook directory containing xml files how can i generate a pdf file from that output. The file may contain tabs and newlines for formatting purposes. Here is how to configure doxywizard to produce chm files. It would be extremely helpful for me to find the correct way of usage.
How to use doxygen to generate documentation code yarns. Doxygen can produce documentation of source code in the chm format. For an example, the doxygen source for this style guide can be found in docmanualstyle. In addition to basic information gathered from noncomment portions of the source files i. Confluence provides a basic pdf export that you can customize and style to suit.
Doxygen can cross reference documentation and code, so that the reader of a document can easily refer to the actual code. Please consult the list when preparing printed manuals for current best practice and suggestions. Configuration format a configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile, default name doxyfile. A picture is sometimes worth a thousand words or so the addage goes at least. Contents iii 8 including formulas 49 9 graphs and diagrams 51 10 preprocessing 55 11 automatic link generation 59 11.
By following users and tags, you can catch up information on technical fields that you are interested in as a whole. The examples together show many of the features of doxygen. Doxygen pdf document generation error expertsexchange. What is the correct way of generating pdf using doxygen. Diagrams and images in doxygen ales nosek the software. Documentation html header, footer, and stylesheet changes adjusted text to better reflect current situation. Note the order of the extra style sheet files is of importance e.
You can also let doxygen use a custom header and footer for each html page it generates, for instance to include a logo or to make the doxygen output blend in with the rest of the web site. All other xml files are described by the schema file named compound. The xml output consists of an index file named index. Compressed html chm files are a convenient medium to view and browse through documentation on windows. I needed an easy way for consumers to read about the public apis. Pdf chemistry allows you to obtain pdf output from html or xml documents simply by styling them with css. Im using doxygen to generate documentation for my code.
Cs1703 multiple assemblies with equivalent identity have been imported. It was super easy to hook up, i could document both in code and in separate files and i. If html output is all you want, that is great, but often enough you would like to get a pdf that you can send to the printers, get a stack of paper back and then lobe at unsuspecting people at random often with calls of. Perl scripts and latex code to be able to generate pdf and dvi output from the perl module output. The structure of the index is described by a schema file index. This makes the doxygen output a better fit into the qt help system. To achieve this goal i was able to configure several things but i still need a lot of human actions so i wonder if someone tried to do something like that and was able to. Doxygenusers help understanding doxygens use of stylesheets re.
If you have a project that shows an aspect of doxygen not covered by these and example or if you find a broken link then please let me know. Commandline reference prince documentation prince xml. Is it possible to obtain a single pdf document, organized as a book, roughly as the. Both the pdf layout and pdf stylesheet can be customized on a space by. Doxygenusers help understanding doxygens use of stylesheets. I need to produce an ms word documentation for my vhdl code that complies with the documents template of my company. You can also let doxygen use a custom header and footer for each html page it generates, for instance to make the output conform to the style used on the rest of your web site. In wizard output, choose the output format as prepare for compressed html. I need to make a pdf version of this and using doxygens latex output appears to be the way to do it. Doxygen searches for source code in your tree and generates api documentation for it.
For more detailed information and to download the doxygen program go to the doxygen website. How do i get it to document all of the files i specify. Pdf generated from the output by running make pdf in the output directory. Here are a number of examples of html output generated by doxygen. Generate a pdf version of the manual you will need pdflatex, makeindex, and egrep for this. Doxygen requires different image formats for the different output types.
Working with cascading style sheets css sas help center. The following output formats are indirectly supported by doxygen. When i generate doxygen documentation in pdf format, i get plenty of different files with a single diagram in each. In the last article of the doxygen miniseries well go over a couple of options how to include diagrams and images in doxygen documentation. In order to show the graphical capabilities of doxygen i created a sample project. Here is an example style sheet that gives the contents area a fixed width. Below i show how to insert images such that they appear in both html and pdfs generated by latex. Section getting started tells you how to generate your first piece of documentation quickly. Add examples to latex pdf doxygen manual by albert. Sign in sign up instantly share code, notes, and snippets. Hi all, im using a custom stylesheet declared in the doxyfile configuration file. This page provides a summary of some of the things youll need to know.
I have a project that i have formatted for doxygen. A configuration file is a freeform ascii text file with a structure that is similar to that of a makefile. You can check out the project source code and the generated html and pdf output at. Thankfully, even if this is not the case it can still produce documentation that can be useful for understanding a mass or mess of code. Doxygen provides a handful of ways to customize the output.
Using css to style the pdf output oxygen xml editor. You were previously added to the hyperv administrators security group, but the permissions have not taken. Documentation html header, footer, and stylesheet changes. To make your life easier, you can configure doxygen to give you as much information as possible in its documentation. You can then include additional stylesheets and javascript files. Using this option one can overrule certain style aspects.
It can generate html output andor pdf output as well as a few other types. For pdf output, something that transforms valid docbook xml to pdf is required. The thing is that doxygen only generates documentation for the first header file. Creating documentation from xml comments using doxygen. And output is generated is devoid of any pdf but includes html refman and latex format. I trust it is the latex format output coz the output is larger in size than. Doxygen will copy the style sheet files to the output directory. After i tweaked the stylesheet to make it more readable, i found that there was still something i didnt like about the docs. Given that the project web site and manuals are generated by sphinx and only the more advanced reference documentation is generated by doxygen, this one directional linking of documentation pages is sufficient for most use cases. However, with ods, you can apply css to many different types of output, such as pdf, rtf, and powerpoint.
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