Re: Doxygen appends a dot at the end of a brief description

Dimitri van Heesch <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.doxygen.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 8/25/05, Alex Zuepke <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello doxygen developers,
> 
> I tried to get rid of the implicit dot "." at the end of brief
> descriptions and found no configuration option to disable this feature
> ... so I added one:
> 
> BRIEF_APPEND_DOT = YES
> 
> If the BRIEF_APPEND_DOT tag is set to YES (the default) Doxygen will
> append a dot (".") after each brief description.
> Note: if OUTPUT_LANGUAGE is set to Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, no dot
> will be appended.
> 
> The appended patch is against doxygen 1.4.4 stable.
> 
> What do you think about this?
> 

I would like to understand why you think this option is needed, i.e.
in which case does the dot appear when you do not want it?

Regards,
  Dimitri


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