[Doxygen-develop] re: aliases

[Iain B. <ia...@pc...>]

The ALIASES tag is one of the most useful features of doxygen that I use to
create customised output in both html and latex.  I have found two
limitations with this approach though.

1. because I output to html and latex, inside the alias tag I use:
ALIASES = "myalias = @htmlonly ... @endhtmlonly @latexonly ...
@endlatexonly"
And this means I cannot use doxygen tags inside the @only tags, because they
are included 'verbatim' therefore my first request is this (or is there
anything in the pipeline): include sections in html or latex, but also use
doxygen tags?  eg.
/**
 * @destination_html
 * @arg foo
 * @arg bar
 * @enddestination_html
 *
 * @destination_latex
 * @arg baz
 * @enddestination_latex
 */

2. the alias tag only allows for the alias expantion followed by the text
after the custom tag.  Is it possible to use the tag in this manner:

/**
 * @myalias hello world
 * @arg foo
 */

ALIASES = "myalias = <b>insert</b>"

so the html output would produce
<b>hello world</b>

I believe these additions would greatly expand the capabilities of doxygen
for those such as myself who have to (or like to) customise output for a
particular purpose.

--
Iain