DoxygenStile

DoxygenStile is a software tool designed to help developers create and maintain Doxygen-compatible documentation by providing a structured approach to comment blocks and documentation style. It aims to reduce inconsistencies across a codebase by offering style rules, templates, and tooling that align with common Doxygen practices.

Core purpose and scope: The project focuses on standardizing the format and content of documentation comments, offering automated formatting, and validating documentation against a configurable set of rules. By doing so, it seeks to improve readability and keep documentation in sync with code changes, without requiring manual enforcement through ad hoc reviews.

Key features: DoxygenStile typically includes a style configuration system that defines how parameters, return values, exceptions, and other tags should be documented. It provides formatting utilities to reformat existing doc comments, templates for frequently used module or class documentation, and a linting component that flags deviations from the configured style. Some workflows integrate DoxygenStile with build systems or IDEs, and it can operate as a command-line tool or be invoked as part of continuous integration pipelines.

Language and interoperability: The tool is designed to work with languages commonly documented by Doxygen, such as C, C++, Java, and Python, and it can preprocess or normalize comments so that Doxygen can generate clean, consistent output.

Development and usage: DoxygenStile is described as an open-source project with a permissive license, maintained by a community of contributors. Typical usage involves installing the tool, initializing a project-specific configuration, and running lint/format commands to check and fix documentation style. See also Doxygen, code documentation, and documentation style guides.