[Doxygen-develop] Spell checking

[Michael M. <Mic...@tt...>]

Hi there,

I'm starting to build up a bit of documentation using Doxygen, and realise
that I've made the odd spelling mistake.  It would help me if Doxygen would
check spellings while generating documentations and produce warnings.

Checking the lists archives, I haven't found anything significant about
spell checking in Doxygen.  Surely this has been considered before?

I was thinking that it would be simple to make a DocVisitor that together
with something like GNU aspell, could check all the observable text and
produce warnings for misspelt words.

Particularly this would be better than extracting the comments from the
source, and then running a spell checker as things like \a words or \code
blocks could automatically be skipped.

Anyone have any comments on this?  If I made such a DocVisitor, would it be
welcomed?

Cheers,

Mike