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

Alex Zuepke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.text.doxygen.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Dimitri van Heesch wrote:
> 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
> 
> 

Example:

/** @brief Retrieves value from something special. */
extern int getFoo(const char *bar);

/** @brief This sentence no verb */
extern int getBar(const char *foo);

In the generated docs, both functions have a dot at the end of their 
brief description. But sometimes I have function descriptions without 
verbs and then the dot looks weird ...


Best regards,
Alex

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Alexander Züpke                        [email protected]
SYSGO AG ~ Am Pfaffenstein 14 ~ 55270 Klein-Winternheim / Germany



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