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Doxygen is a documentation system for various programming
-languages. The paraslash project uses Doxygen for generating the API
-reference on the web pages, but good source code documentation is
-also beneficial to people trying to understand the code structure
-and the interactions between the various source files.
+languages. The API reference on the paraslash web page is generated
+by doxygen.
It is more illustrative to look at the source code for examples than
-to describe the conventions for documenting the source in this manual,
-so we only describe which parts of the code need doxygen comments,
-but leave out details on documentation conventions.
+to describe the conventions in this manual, so we only describe which
+parts of the code need doxygen comments, but leave out details on
+documentation conventions.
As a rule, only the public part of the C source is documented with
Doxygen. This includes structures, defines and enumerations in header
files as well as public (non-static) C functions. These should be
-documented completely. For example each parameter and the return
-value of a public function should get a descriptive comment.
+documented completely. For example, each parameter and the return
+value of a public function should get a descriptive doxygen comment.
No doxygen comments are necessary for static functions and for
structures and enumerations in C files (which are used only within