Calling DOC++ with option -h will give you a long screen with one-line descriptions of the command line options provided by DOC++. However, we now attempt to provide a more detailed description suitable for a novice user to understand how to call DOC++ with his docified sources.

At the commandline DOC++ may be called with a sequence of options and a list of files or directories. No option may be passed after the first filename. All files passed to DOC++ are parsed in the order they are specified for generating documentation from them. All directories are traversed recursively and all files *.h* or *.java (depending on the -J comand line option) are parsed. However, it is good practice to control the input files with one main input file and use the @Include: directive.

Options consist of a leading character -, preceeded by one or two characters and optionally a space-separated argument.

Command line options come in three different flavours. The first type of options control parameters that are independent of the chosen output, HTML (the default) or LaTeX (selected with option -t). These are:

-h

This instructs DOC++ to print a one-line description of all options to the screen.

-J

Sets DOC++ into Java mode, i.e.~lets DOC++ parse Java instead of C/C++.

-A

Instructs DOC++ to generate manual entries for every declaration it finds, no matter if it is documented with a DOC++ comment or not. instead of C/C++.

-p

instructs DOC++ also to include private class members to the documentation. If not specified no private member will show up in the documentation (even if they are docified).

-v

Sets DOC++ into verbose mode making it operate more noisy. This may be helpful when debugging your documentation.

-u

Draw arrows from derived class to the base class when generating class graphs.

-k

Also generate class `graphs' for classes with neither base class nor child classes.

-H

Instructs DOC++ to use HTML as formatting language.

The following command line options are only active when HTML output is selected, i.e.~no option -t is passed:

-d <name>

This specifies the directory <name>, where the HTML files and gifs are to be written. If not specified, the current directory will be used. If the specified directory does not yet exist, it will be created by DOC++.

-f

instructs DOC++ to write on each HTML page the file of the source code, where this manual entry has been declared.

-g

instructs DOC++ not to generate gifs for equations and \TEX{} text in the documentation. This may reduce execution time when calling DOC++, but note, that DOC++ keeps a database of already generated gifs, such that gifs are not recreated if they already exist. However, if you do not have LaTeX, dvips, ghostscript and the ppmtools installed on your system, you must use this option, since then DOC++ will fail setting up the gifs.

-G

This instructs DOC++ to reconstruct all gifs, even if they already exist. This may be useful, if the database is corrupted for some reason.

-B <file>

will add <file> as the bottom banner to every HTML page generated by DOC++. This is how to get rid of DOC++ logos and customize the output for your needs.

-a

When this option is specified, DOC++ will use HTML tables for listing the members of a class. This yields all member names to be aligned.

-b

Same as -a except that a bordered table will be used.

-r

This option should only be set when using DOC++ on DOS filesystems with 8-character-long filenames. DOC++ will respect this (stupid) convention.

-j

Suppresses the generation of java applets for drawing class graphs.

Finally this set of command line options provides some control for the LaTeX output of DOC++.

-t

Instructs DOC++ to produce LaTeX output rather than HTML.

-o <file>

Sets the output file name. If not specified, the output is printed to stdout.

-l

Switches off the generation of the LaTeX environment. This should be used if you intend to include the documentation in some LaTeX document.

-eo <option>

adds <option> to LaTeX's \documentclass.

-ep <package>

adds \usepackage{package} to the LaTeX environment.

-ep <file>

uses the contents of <file> as LaTeX environment.

-s

Instead of generating a manual from the manual entries, DOC++ will generate a source code listing. This listing contains all normal C or C++ comments typeset in LaTeX quality. Every line is preceeded with its line number.

For customization of the LaTeX output, please try to understand and edit the style file docxx.sty. (Sorry, there is no documentation on how to do this.) The HTML output can be customized by means of the following 6 files:

indexHeader.inc

Header for index HTML-pages

indexFooter.inc

Footer for index HTML-pages

hierHeader.inc

Header for class hierarchy HTML-pages

hierFooter.inc

Footer for class hierarchy HTML-pages

classHeader.inc

Header for all other HTML-pages

classFooter.inc

Footer for all other HTML-pages

If one or more of these files are found in the current directory, the corresponding part of a HTML-page is substituted by the contents of the file. The files indexHeader.inc and hierHeader.inc should start with <HTML><TITLE> .... File classHeader.inc should start with <BODY> ..., since for such pages DOC++ sets up the title.

As an example, the LaTeX version of this document has been generated with

	    doc++ -v -t -o doc.tex -ep a4wide doc.dxx
	

while the HTML version has been created using

	    doc++ doc.dxx
	

As you can see, this documentation itself is written using DOC++ in order to gain the benefits of having just one documentation source and two different output possibilities.