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Debian GNU/Linux Reference Guide
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13.9.4 Literate Programming

Instead of writing code containing documentation, the literate programmer writes documentation containing code. This approach ensures a good documentation for a program.

For more on literate-programming, see Literate Programming.


13.9.4.1 Noweb

Preparation:

     # apt-get install nowebm

References for Noweb:

This is a WEB-like literate-programming tool which is simpler while providing extensibility and language-independence. [ 67] When noweb is invoked, it writes the program source code to the output files mentioned in the noweb file, and it writes a TeX file for typeset documentation.

The Debian ifupdown package is a fine example.

     $ apt-get source ifupdown
     $ cd ifupdown*
     $ make ifupdown.pdf ifupdown.ps

13.9.4.2 Doxygen

Preparation:

     # apt-get install doxygen doxygen-doc doxygen-gui

References for Doxygen (created by doxygen!):

It can generate HTML, RTF, Unix manual pages, PostScript, and PDF (using LaTeX) documentation for C++, C, Java, IDL, and to some extent PHP and C# programs. Doxygen is compatible to JavaDoc (1.1), Qt-Doc, KDOC and was specifically designed to be used for projects that make use of Troll Tech's Qt toolkit. It creates include dependency graphs, collaboration diagrams, and graphical class hierarchy graphs even for not documented programs. The output is similar to Qt's documentation.


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