The following tables compare general and technical information for a number of documentation generators. Please see the individual products' articles for further information. This article is not all-inclusive or necessarily up-to-date. Unless otherwise specified in footnotes, comparisons are based on the stable versions without any add-ons, extensions or external programs. Documentation generator is a programming tool that generates an API Documentation documentation from a set of specially commented source codes, and in some cases, binary files. ...

General information

Basic general information about the generators: creator/company, license/price etc.

ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... A software license is a legal agreement which may take the form of a proprietary or gratuitous license as well as a memorandum of contract between a producer and a user of computer software. ...

Operating system support

The operating systems the generators can run on. An operating system (OS) is a set of computer programs that manage the hardware and software resources of a computer. ...

Note (4): GNU D Compiler. Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ... Ddoc is the embedded documentation generator for the D programming language. ... Doc-O-Matic is a commercial automatic documentation generator that creates fully cross linked documentation systems, including both Source Code Documentation, Online Help and User Manuals in PDF, browser-based Help, HTML Help, MS Help 2, Windows Help, RTF and XML. Doc-O-Matic supports all major project file formats... Doxygen is a documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, D and ActionScript. ... Epydoc is a documentation tool that renders its own lightweight markup language Epytext for Python documentation strings. ... HeaderDoc is documentation generator developed and maintained by the Apple Computer company. ... Javadoc is a computer software tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation into HTML format from Java source code. ... Natural Docs is a multi-language documentation generator. ... NDoc is a code documentation generator for the Common Language Infrastructure. ... PHPDocumentor is a utility for PHP programmers designed to parse and generate documentation base on PHPDoc comments. ... Project Analyzer is a Visual Basic code review and documentation utility. ... RDoc, designed by Dave Thomas, is the embedded documentation generator for the Ruby programming language. ... ROBODoc is a documentation tool similar to javadoc. ... TwinText is a commercially available Source Code Documentation Tool. ... Microsoft Windows is the name of several families of proprietary software operating systems by Microsoft. ... Mac OS X (official IPA pronunciation: ) is a line of proprietary, graphical operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. ... Linux (IPA pronunciation: ) is a Unix-like computer operating system. ... BSD redirects here; for other uses see BSD (disambiguation). ... Filiation of Unix and Unix-like systems Unix (officially trademarked as UNIX®) is a computer operating system originally developed in the 1960s and 1970s by a group of AT&T employees at Bell Labs including Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and Douglas McIlroy. ...

Language support

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The programming languages the generators recognize. Image File history File links Circle-question-red. ... A programming language is an artificial language that can be used to control the behavior of a machine, particularly a computer. ...

Note (1): .NET is not a programming language, but is listed here for convenience. C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with low-level facilities. ... Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model. ... VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsofts Windows Script Host. ... Delphi is the primary programming language of Borland Delphi. ... Pascal is an imperative computer programming language, developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a language particularly suitable for structured programming. ... Ada is a structured, statically typed imperative computer programming language designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull during 1977–1983. ... D is an object-oriented, imperative system programming language designed by Walter Bright of Digital Mars as a re-engineering of C/C++. He has done this by re-designing many C++ features, and borrowing ideas from other programming languages. ... IDL (short for Interface Description Language) is a software interface specification language created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queens University. ... Microsoft . ... This article or section does not cite any references or sources. ... Ddoc is the embedded documentation generator for the D programming language. ... Doc-O-Matic is a commercial automatic documentation generator that creates fully cross linked documentation systems, including both Source Code Documentation, Online Help and User Manuals in PDF, browser-based Help, HTML Help, MS Help 2, Windows Help, RTF and XML. Doc-O-Matic supports all major project file formats... Doxygen is a documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, D and ActionScript. ... Epydoc is a documentation tool that renders its own lightweight markup language Epytext for Python documentation strings. ... HeaderDoc is documentation generator developed and maintained by the Apple Computer company. ... Javadoc is a computer software tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation into HTML format from Java source code. ... Natural Docs is a multi-language documentation generator. ... NDoc is a code documentation generator for the Common Language Infrastructure. ... PHPDocumentor is a utility for PHP programmers designed to parse and generate documentation base on PHPDoc comments. ... Project Analyzer is a Visual Basic code review and documentation utility. ... RDoc, designed by Dave Thomas, is the embedded documentation generator for the Ruby programming language. ... ROBODoc is a documentation tool similar to javadoc. ... TwinText is a commercially available Source Code Documentation Tool. ... C is a general-purpose, block structured, procedural, imperative computer programming language developed in 1972 by Dennis Ritchie at the Bell Telephone Laboratories for use with the Unix operating system. ... C++ (pronounced see plus plus, IPA: ) is a general-purpose, high-level programming language with low-level facilities. ... Java is an object-oriented applications programming language developed by Sun Microsystems in the early 1990s. ... The title given to this article is incorrect due to technical limitations. ... Visual Basic (VB) is an event driven programming language and associated development environment from Microsoft for its COM programming model. ... VBScript (short for Visual Basic Scripting Edition) is an Active Scripting language interpreted via Microsofts Windows Script Host. ... Delphi is the primary programming language of Borland Delphi. ... Pascal is an imperative computer programming language, developed in 1970 by Niklaus Wirth as a language particularly suitable for structured programming. ... Ada is a structured, statically typed imperative computer programming language designed by a team led by Jean Ichbiah of CII Honeywell Bull during 1977–1983. ... D is an object-oriented, imperative system programming language designed by Walter Bright of Digital Mars as a re-engineering of C/C++. He has done this by re-designing many C++ features, and borrowing ideas from other programming languages. ... IDL (short for Interface Description Language) is a software interface specification language created by Lamb, Wulf and Nestor at Queens University. ... Microsoft . ... PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. ... JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. ... ActionScript is a scripting language based on ECMAScript, primarily used to develop software for the Adobe Flash . ... PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle Corporations proprietary server-based procedural extension to the SQL database language. ... Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. ... Ddoc is the embedded documentation generator for the D programming language. ... Doc-O-Matic is a commercial automatic documentation generator that creates fully cross linked documentation systems, including both Source Code Documentation, Online Help and User Manuals in PDF, browser-based Help, HTML Help, MS Help 2, Windows Help, RTF and XML. Doc-O-Matic supports all major project file formats... Doxygen is a documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, D and ActionScript. ... Epydoc is a documentation tool that renders its own lightweight markup language Epytext for Python documentation strings. ... HeaderDoc is documentation generator developed and maintained by the Apple Computer company. ... Javadoc is a computer software tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation into HTML format from Java source code. ... Natural Docs is a multi-language documentation generator. ... NDoc is a code documentation generator for the Common Language Infrastructure. ... PHPDocumentor is a utility for PHP programmers designed to parse and generate documentation base on PHPDoc comments. ... Project Analyzer is a Visual Basic code review and documentation utility. ... RDoc, designed by Dave Thomas, is the embedded documentation generator for the Ruby programming language. ... ROBODoc is a documentation tool similar to javadoc. ... TwinText is a commercially available Source Code Documentation Tool. ... PHP (PHP:Hypertext Preprocessor) is a reflective programming language originally designed for producing dynamic web pages. ... Wikibooks has a book on the topic of Perl Programming Perl is a dynamic programming language created by Larry Wall and first released in 1987. ... Python is a high-level programming language first released by Guido van Rossum in 1991. ... Ruby is a reflective, object-oriented programming language. ... JavaScript is a scripting language most often used for client-side web development. ... ActionScript is a scripting language based on ECMAScript, primarily used to develop software for the Adobe Flash . ... PL/SQL (Procedural Language/Structured Query Language) is Oracle Corporations proprietary server-based procedural extension to the SQL database language. ... Tcl (originally from Tool Command Language, but nonetheless conventionally rendered as Tcl rather than TCL; and pronounced tickle) is a scripting language created by John Ousterhout. ...

Note (2): Generators listed here can be extended to support any language that has comments.

Input formats

The input formats the generators can read.

Computer files can be divided into two broad categories: binary and text. ... In computer science, object file or object code is an intermediate representation of code generated by a compiler after it processes a source code file. ... Ddoc is the embedded documentation generator for the D programming language. ... Doc-O-Matic is a commercial automatic documentation generator that creates fully cross linked documentation systems, including both Source Code Documentation, Online Help and User Manuals in PDF, browser-based Help, HTML Help, MS Help 2, Windows Help, RTF and XML. Doc-O-Matic supports all major project file formats... Doxygen is a documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, D and ActionScript. ... Epydoc is a documentation tool that renders its own lightweight markup language Epytext for Python documentation strings. ... HeaderDoc is documentation generator developed and maintained by the Apple Computer company. ... Javadoc is a computer software tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation into HTML format from Java source code. ... Natural Docs is a multi-language documentation generator. ... NDoc is a code documentation generator for the Common Language Infrastructure. ... PHPDocumentor is a utility for PHP programmers designed to parse and generate documentation base on PHPDoc comments. ... Project Analyzer is a Visual Basic code review and documentation utility. ... RDoc, designed by Dave Thomas, is the embedded documentation generator for the Ruby programming language. ... ROBODoc is a documentation tool similar to javadoc. ... TwinText is a commercially available Source Code Documentation Tool. ... Computer files can be divided into two broad categories: binary and text. ... In computer science, object file or object code is an intermediate representation of code generated by a compiler after it processes a source code file. ...

Output formats

The output formats the generators can write.

Note (4): Ddoc have macro system which can be customized to output any desired format. CHM, groff (manpages), XHTML, XML, LaTeX (so PostScript and PDF) was tested. They are not curently included in standard distribution. Standard HTML output also is generated using macros and can be redefined. HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... Microsoft Compressed HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format. ... The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated to RTF) is a proprietary document file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. ... Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for desktop publishing use. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX, written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ... PostScript (PS) is a page description language and programming language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ... The man page on man Almost all substantial UNIX and Unix-like operating systems have extensive documentation known as man pages (short for manual pages). The Unix command used to display them is man. ... DocBook is a markup language for technical documentation, originally intended for authoring technical documents related to computer hardware and software but which can be used for any other sort of documentation. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ... Ddoc is the embedded documentation generator for the D programming language. ... Doc-O-Matic is a commercial automatic documentation generator that creates fully cross linked documentation systems, including both Source Code Documentation, Online Help and User Manuals in PDF, browser-based Help, HTML Help, MS Help 2, Windows Help, RTF and XML. Doc-O-Matic supports all major project file formats... Doxygen is a documentation generator for C++, C, Java, Objective-C, Python, IDL (Corba and Microsoft flavors) and to some extent PHP, C#, D and ActionScript. ... Epydoc is a documentation tool that renders its own lightweight markup language Epytext for Python documentation strings. ... HeaderDoc is documentation generator developed and maintained by the Apple Computer company. ... Javadoc is a computer software tool from Sun Microsystems for generating API documentation into HTML format from Java source code. ... Natural Docs is a multi-language documentation generator. ... NDoc is a code documentation generator for the Common Language Infrastructure. ... PHPDocumentor is a utility for PHP programmers designed to parse and generate documentation base on PHPDoc comments. ... Project Analyzer is a Visual Basic code review and documentation utility. ... RDoc, designed by Dave Thomas, is the embedded documentation generator for the Ruby programming language. ... ROBODoc is a documentation tool similar to javadoc. ... TwinText is a commercially available Source Code Documentation Tool. ... HTML, short for Hypertext Markup Language, is the predominant markup language for the creation of web pages. ... Microsoft Compressed HTML Help is a proprietary format for online help files, developed by Microsoft and first released in 1997 as a successor to the Microsoft WinHelp format. ... The Rich Text Format (often abbreviated to RTF) is a proprietary document file format developed by Microsoft in 1987 for cross-platform document interchange. ... Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format created by Adobe Systems in 1993 for desktop publishing use. ... The LaTeX logo, typeset with LaTeX LATEX, written as LaTeX in plain text, is a document markup language and document preparation system for the TeX typesetting program. ... PostScript (PS) is a page description language and programming language used primarily in the electronic and desktop publishing areas. ... The man page on man Almost all substantial UNIX and Unix-like operating systems have extensive documentation known as man pages (short for manual pages). The Unix command used to display them is man. ... DocBook is a markup language for technical documentation, originally intended for authoring technical documents related to computer hardware and software but which can be used for any other sort of documentation. ... The Extensible Markup Language (XML) is a general-purpose markup language. ...

Note (5): Though not officially supported as an output format, Epydoc uses LaTeX and PostScript as intermediate steps to produce the final PDF documentation.

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