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17 /*! \page custcmd Custom Commands
19 \tableofcontents{html,latex}
21 Doxygen provides a large number of \ref commands "special commands",
22 \ref xmlcmds "XML commands", and \ref htmlcmds "HTML commands".
23 that can be used to enhance or structure the documentation inside a comment block.
24 If you for some reason have a need to define new commands you can do
25 so by means of an \e alias definition.
27 The definition of an alias should be specified in the configuration file using
28 the \ref cfg_aliases "ALIASES" configuration tag.
30 \section custcmd_simple Simple aliases
31 The simplest form of an alias is a simple substitution of the form
35 For example defining the following alias:
37 ALIASES += sideeffect="\par Side Effects:\n"
40 put the command `\sideeffect` (or `@sideeffect`) in the documentation, which
41 will result in a user-defined paragraph with heading <b>Side Effects:</b>.
43 Note that you can put `\n`'s in the value part of an alias to insert newlines
44 (in the resulting output). You can put `^^` in the value part of an alias to
45 insert a newline as if a physical newline was in the original file.
47 Note when you need a literal `{` or `}` or `,` in the value part of an alias you have to
48 escape them by means of a backslash (`\`), this can lead to conflicts with the
49 commands \c \\{ and \c \\} for these it is advised to use the version \c @@{ and \c @@} or
50 use a double escape (\c \\\\{ and \c \\\\})
52 Also note that you can redefine existing special commands if you wish.
54 Some commands, such as \ref cmdxrefitem "\\xrefitem" are designed to be used in
55 combination with aliases.
57 \section custcmd_complex Aliases with arguments
58 Aliases can also have one or more arguments. In the alias definition you then need
59 to specify the number of arguments between curly braces. In the value part of the
60 definition you can place `\x` markers, where '`x`' represents the argument number starting
63 Here is an example of an alias definition with a single argument:
65 ALIASES += l{1}="\ref \1"
68 Inside a comment block you can use it as follows
70 /** See \l{SomeClass} for more information. */
72 which would be the same as writing
74 /** See \ref SomeClass for more information. */
77 Note that you can overload an alias by a version with multiple arguments, for instance:
79 ALIASES += l{1}="\ref \1"
80 ALIASES += l{2}="\ref \1 \"\2\""
82 Note that the quotes inside the alias definition have to be escaped with a backslash.
84 With these alias definitions, we can write
86 /** See \l{SomeClass,Some Text} for more information. */
88 inside the comment block and it will expand to
90 /** See \ref SomeClass "Some Text" for more information. */
92 where the command with a single argument would still work as shown before.
94 Aliases can also be expressed in terms of other aliases, e.g. a new command
95 `\reminder` can be expressed as a \ref cmdxrefitem "\\xrefitem" via an intermediate `\xreflist` command
98 ALIASES += xreflist{3}="\xrefitem \1 \"\2\" \"\3\" "
99 ALIASES += reminder="\xreflist{reminders,Reminder,Reminders}"
102 Note that if for aliases with more than one argument a comma is used as a separator,
103 if you want to put a comma inside the command, you will need to escape it with a backslash,
106 \l{SomeClass,Some text\, with an escaped comma}
108 given the alias definition of `\l` in the example above.
110 \section custcmd_nesting Nesting custom command
112 You can use commands as arguments of aliases, including commands
113 defined using aliases.
115 As an example consider the following alias definitions
118 ALIASES += Bold{1}="<b>\1</b>"
119 ALIASES += Emph{1}="<em>\1</em>"
122 Inside a comment block you can now use:
124 /** This is a \Bold{bold \Emph{and} Emphasized} text fragment. */
128 /** This is a <b>bold <em>and</em> Emphasized</b> text fragment. */
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