ROBODoc is a program documentation tool. The idea is for every function or procedure to include a standard header containing all sorts of information about the procedure or function. ROBODoc extracts these headers from the source file and puts them in a separate autodocs-file. ROBODoc therefore allows users to include the program documentation in the source code and avoid having to maintain two separate documents.
ROBODoc can format the headers in a number of different formats: HTML, RTF, LaTeX, or XML DocBook. In HTML mode it can generate cross links between headers. You can even include parts of your source code.
ROBODoc works with many programming languages: For example C, Pascal, Shell Scripts, Assembler, COBOL, Occam, Postscript, Forth, Tcl/Tk, C++, Java — basically any program in which remarks or comments can be used.
Key Features
- Supports:
- HTML.
- CHM.
- RTF.
- PDF.
- LaTeX.
- PostScript.
- man pages.
- DocBook.
- Documents:
- Functions.
- Methods.
- Classes.
- Variables.
- Makefile entries.
- System tests.
- and more…
Website: rfsber.home.xs4all.nl/Robo/robodoc.html
Support: User Manual
Developer: Frans Slothouber, Jacco van Weert, Petteri Kettunen, Bernd Koesling, and many others
License: GNU General Public License v3.0
ROBODoc is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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| ROBODoc | Documentation tool similar to Javadoc |
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