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Add to SafariWhen comparing Dr.Explain 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 Dr.Explain is ranked 11th.
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Pros
Pro Ready-made guide templates and convenient editor
Pro Automatic image annotation
The program itself annotates images. Almost always correctly highlights important elements. All that's left is to sign them.
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 Can not generate from source code
Unlike other tools, this tool can not generate documentation automatically from e.g. a .NET solution.
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.
