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Requires very little overhead from the writer of the documentation. Plain text will do, but for more fancy or structured output HTML tags and/or some of doxygen's special commands can be used.
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Supports C/C++, Java, (Corba and Microsoft) Java, Python, IDL, C#, Objective-C and to some extent D and PHP sources.
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Supports documentation of files, namespaces, packages, classes, structs, unions, templates, variables, functions, typedefs, enums and defines.
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JavaDoc (1.1), Qt-Doc, and ECMA-334 (C# spec.) compatible.
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Automatically generates class and collaboration diagrams in HTML (as clickable image maps) and
(as Encapsulated PostScript images).
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Uses the dot tool of the Graphviz tool kit to generate include dependency graphs, collaboration diagrams, call graphs, directory structure graphs, and graphical class hierarchy graphs.
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Flexible comment placement: Allows you to put documentation in the header file (before the declaration of an entity), source file (before the definition of an entity) or in a separate file.
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Generates a list of all members of a class (including any inherited members) along with their protection level.
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Outputs documentation in on-line format (HTML and UNIX man page) and off-line format ( and RTF) simultaneously (any of these can be disabled if desired). All formats are optimized for ease of reading.
Furthermore, compressed HTML can be generated from HTML output using Microsoft's HTML Help Workshop (Windows only) and PDF can be generated from the output.
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Includes a full C preprocessor to allow proper parsing of conditional code fragments and to allow expansion of all or part of macros definitions.
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Automatically detects p