Monique,
Did you have a look at e.g. BRIEF_MEMBER_DESC and REPEAT_BRIEF in the
Doxyfile ?
Albert
On Wed, Sep 16, 2015 at 2:55 AM, Monique Semp <monique.s...@earthlink.net>
wrote:
> Hello, Doxygen users,
>
> I’m wondering if there’s any way to suppress the standard behavior of the
> \brief and \details commands for class & file members? As it says in the
> documentation,
> https://www.stack.nl/~dimitri/doxygen/manual/commands.html#cmdbrief, the
> \brief is prepended to the \details.
>
> But I really, really wish that when there is a \details command, only it
> would appear in the output (without the prepended \brief content).
>
> Details:
>
> My problem (using Doxygen 1.8.10, but I don’t think the version is
> relevant) is that I’ve started a project to convert a huge amount of
> DoxyS-commented code to Doxygen comments, and DoxyS does not include the
> \brief content for members if there is also a \details section. And so way
> back when, when I created this body of DoxyS-commented code, I pretty much
> repeated the info from the \brief in the \details, but in a full-sentence
> format vs. the “phrase” format of the \brief.
>
> That is, for \brief I’d say, “Register a callback.” But for \details, I’d
> say, “This function registers a callback for component XYZ.”
>
> But now I’m porting everything (all ~150 files, with well more than a
> thousand functions/callbacks) to Doxygen. (I want to port it because DoxyS
> is not an active project; it has performance issues with groups; and it
> doesn’t support LaTeX, which I want to generate a good PDF.) And so the
> member descriptions look awful with the \brief prepended to the \details.
>
> It’s a pretty giant conversion project (lots of the tags are the same, but
> the text formats and autolinking are all different), but a lot is
> scriptable. But editing the \details to not repeat what’s in the \brief
> will require human interaction.
>
> Thanks for any ideas,
> -Monique
>
>
>
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