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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

hgen

Documentation generator for D with limited Markdown support and DDoc, based on harbored-mod.

Getting started

Building

You can use `make` to build the application or `dub` directly (the project's Makefile uses `dub` for assembly).

Setting up

At this point you should have a binary called `hgen` in the `build/` directory.

• Modify your PATH to point to the `build/` directory or copy the binary into your project. Also, you can run make install (for Linux only).
• From your project's directory, run `hgen`. This assumes your source code is in the `./source` subdirectory:

  hgen source
  
  

  This will write generate documentation to the `./doc` directory.

Features

• Supports DDoc and (most, see differences) Markdown syntax.
• Sensible defaults (get decent documentation without tweaking any settings).
• Automatic cross-referencing in code blocks and inline code.
• Very fast.
• Generates one file per module/class/struct/enum, etc. By default, as opposed to one file per module (old Phobos documentation) or one file per symbol (ddox).
• Generated docs are usable without JavaScript (e.g. NoScript), JS may used for optional functionality.
• Only generates HTML, and is unlikely to support any other formats.
• All command-line options can be set in the config file `hgen.cfg`.

Differences from vanilla Markdown

Sequence --- will not generate a horizontal line, as it is used for DDoc blocks. Use - - - instead. This is still standard Markdown.

Emphasis can be denoted by *, but not by _ (this would break snake_case names).

Also this does not work (again because DDoc uses --- to mark code blocks):

Subheading
----------

Instead, use either (standard Markdown):

## Subheading

Credits

This project is a fork of harbored-mod (maintained by the Dlang community). Harbored-mod was continued in a new repository by Basile.B; some ideas from this new repository was added on to hgen.

Harbored-mod is a fork of harbored written by Brian Schott and Ferdinand Majerech aka Kiith-Sa.

The current developer and maintainer of hgen is Eugene 'Vindex' Stulin tech.vindex@gmail.com.

This program is distributed under the Boost Software License.