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- The AutoDoc Formatter 1.0
-
- (c) 1994 Martin Mares, MJSoft System Software
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-
- Preface
- =======
-
- ADF and its documentation are Copyright (c) Martin Mares, MJSoft System
- Software, Prague, Czech Republic.
-
- This archive can be freely redistributed, as long as all of its files are
- included in their original form without any additions, deletions or
- modifications, and no more than a nominal fee is charged for its distribution.
- All copyright notices in the programs and accompanying documentation files
- must remain on their places. Also '.displayme' and other similar files may
- not be added. This is generally known as FREEWARE.
-
- Special permission is given to Fred Fish to distribute this program on his
- "Fish Disks".
-
- This software is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind, either
- expressed or implied. The author is not responsible for any damage caused by
- it.
-
-
- Requirements
- ============
-
- ADF requires Kickstart 2.04 or higher and the ss.library version 4 or newer
- (it can be downloaded from the Aminet in archive SSLib<version>.lha).
-
-
- Introduction
- ============
-
- Some years ago, CBM introduced a standard format for writing documentation
- of libraries and other system modules - the Autodocs. This is a relatively
- good format and is used by many programmers which are interested in creating
- of additional system modules, but it is a bit hard to maintain, because it
- contains still the same headers for each function and the parameters are
- described on three different places. The AutoDoc Formatter tries to simplify
- this hard work.
-
- This document doesn't explain the style rules of Autodocs.
-
- ADF generates the doc from given group of source files containing
- documentation material in comments. Each block describing one function starts
- with ??**** <funcname> on the start of line. The question marks may be
- replaced by any characters (allows ADF to be used with Assembler, C, Pascal
- and many other languages). This header is followed by doc lines of the
- following form:
-
- ?* <command> <parameter>
-
- '?' can be again replaced by any single character, <command> is not
- required (but if you specify no command, you have to write both the leading
- and the trailing space of the command field or to use a TAB character
- instead). The second space can be replaced by a TAB. Lines containing only
- the parameter are treated as a continuation of parameters of previous command.
- Lines containing neither the command nor the parameter are considered to be a
- paragraph break.
-
- The function doc block is finished by line starting with ??****.
-
-
- Commands
- ========
-
- All standard commands consist of exactly one character. Anything with more
- than one character is treated as a custom heading and all underscores in it
- are automatically converted to blanks.
-
- If you specify a section header which is identical to the current one, only
- paragraph break will happen.
-
- = right-hand side of NAME chunk. If used more than once, it specifies
- other whole lines appended to the NAME chunk. Must be specified before
- any other chunks.
- i declaration of input. Followed by: name,register,type = description.
- ADF constucts SYNOPSIS and INPUT chunks from these declarations. Type is
- needed only for C-language declarations. If no type is used, the second
- comma may be omitted. If you enter no name, no real input will be
- generated, only the description will be inserted as a paragraph to the
- INPUT chunk. Such insertions are allowed only after all real parameters.
- If no register name is given, D0 is assumed. Inputs and outputs must
- be specified after the '=' chunk and before all other chunks.
- r declaration of result. Same syntax as 'i'.
- o declaration of output. Same syntax as 'i'. Not inserted to SYNOPSIS.
- f FUNCTION chunk.
- e EXAMPLE
- n NOTE
- b BUGS
- s SEE ALSO
- t TAGS. Special indentation used.
- w WARNING
- g FLAGS. Special indentation used.
- ! Raw insertion. Current paragraph is flushed and the parameter is
- inserted to output text before any processing except for indentation,
- which is done always.
- > Break current paragraph and increase indent level by 3 characters.
- < Break current paragraph and decrease indent level by 3 characters.
- * Comment (ignored).
- - Itemization. New paragraph is started and the '-' sign is inserted
- before new paragraph. Special indentation used.
-
-
- Special control lines
- ---------------------
-
- You can specify global prefix of all names (such as 'ghost.library'). It
- can be done by including '??**** =<prefix>' in your source. The slash
- character will be appended automatically.
-
- You can also set C or ASM mode by including '??**** #<mode>' (the mode is
- given in lower case). In the ASM mode, no C declaration in the SYNOPSIS chunk
- are generated and the data types in declarations of inputs/outputs/resultsare
- ignored.
-
-
- Final words
- -----------
-
- Send suggestions and bug reports to <mjsoft@k332.feld.cvut.cz>.
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-