When comparing HelpNDoc vs Doxygen, the Slant community recommends Doxygen for most people. In the question“What are the best documentation tools for .NET developers?” Doxygen is ranked 1st while HelpNDoc is ranked 12th.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Multiple formats
PDF, chm, web, Word etc.
Pro Really easy to use and learn
Very WYSIWYG. Like using a simple version of Word.
Pro Free
Pro Generates documentation from comments
Doxygen can generate documentation from formatted comments in the source code. This is extremely useful when writing detailed man pages.
Pro Cross-platform
Doxygen is compatible with multiple languages. Including but not limited to: C, Objective-C, C#, C++, Java, Python, PHP etc...
Cons
Con Bugs
When tried on a large .NET solution, it could not generate the help correctly.
Con i18n support is poor
Cannot work properly with non-ascii paths on Windows
Con PDF output is very problematic
Doxygen PDF output relies on the now broken LaTeX tabu package which was abandoned over a decade ago by its developer.
Con No recursive inclusion
For example, if you specify INCLUDE_PATH=incl
, it doesn't search other folders included in the incl
folder (incl/sub1
or incl/sub2
) and there's no option to turn on recursive inclusion.
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