Re: [Doxygen-develop] Doxygen appends a dot at the end of a brief description

[Dimitri v. H. <do...@gm...>]

On 8/25/05, Alex Zuepke <az...@sy...> wrote:
> Hello doxygen developers,
>=20
> 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:
>=20
> BRIEF_APPEND_DOT =3D YES
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> The appended patch is against doxygen 1.4.4 stable.
>=20
> What do you think about this?
>=20

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