Re: [Doxygen-users] Escaping period character (.)

[Robert D. <rcd...@gm...>]

I choose to use Boost.Serialization because that is how the boost
documentation references the different libraries. It by no means is intended
to represent the C++ syntax, it is merely a format of documentation.

On Fri, Apr 3, 2009 at 3:30 PM, Pascal Blanchette
<pa...@ma...>wrote:

>  I know its not exactly what you want to do, but I usually use :: (as in
> Boost::Serialization) to seperate classes and functions. It is a more C++
> notation, but that way Doxygen will generate the links. The Doxygen parser
> is still somewhat C oriented.
>
> Pascal
>
> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* Robert Dailey [mailto:rcd...@gm...]
> *Sent:* Friday, April 03, 2009 4:14 PM
> *To:* doxygen
> *Subject:* [Doxygen-users] Escaping period character (.)
>
> I currently have JAVADOC_AUTOBRIEF enabled and I need to escape a period
> (.) character to prevent it from being parsed by Doxygen as a real period
> ending a sentence. For example, my documentation looks like:
>
> /// This is required by Boost.Serialization.
> virtual char const* get_key() const = 0;
>
> As you can see, the first period is part of the name "Boost.Serialization"
> and does is not meant to indicate the end of the brief description. Can I
> escape the period somehow?
>
>