Doxygen multiple bold words

Question

I am trying to make an entire line of text bold. The Doxygen documentation states:

\b Displays the argument using a bold font. Equivalent to < b>word< /b>. To put multiple words in bold use < b>multiple words< /b>.

I have tried (before reading HTML commands section):

• \\! \b lots of words \b
• \\! < b> lots of words < /b>
• \\! \b lots of words /b
• \\! \b < lots of words > \b

I looked at HTML tags < B> and < /B> but I don't want to tie the formatting to only HTML output. Aside from this when I tried '\\!< B> lots of words < /B>' it did not work.

Note:

• The text is in paragraph (\par).
• Spaces in < b> and < /b> are added to stop this webpage interpeting them as literal bold tags.

Answer 1

Your second attempt is the correct way to bold out multiple words in doxygen (without the spaces between b tags of course). Note that if you are doing non-standard delimiters for comments, then you will need to specify what those delimiers are in your doxygen configuration file.

/**
@mainpage
This short example contains some text markup
illustrating how to do html formatting in doxygen.
.
This will be < em>italic< /em> and this is
< b>how you make lots of words bold.< /b> You will
have to remove the spaces from the tags.
*/