Latex Javadoc generation

Question

Is there a way to generate a latex document from my java sourcefile's documentation? I don't want to include LaTeX Elements in my documentation comments, I simply want to create LaTeX files instead of HTML.

Thanks

Answer 1

An alternative to Texdoclet is the ltxdoclet I created.

I think the main difference is that it also includes the source code, not only the Javadoc comments, though you can switch this off.

It is not very well documented on the github site - just download the code and do ant pdfdoku for an example output (ant latexdoku if you only want the LaTeX files). (It is documented in german, though.)

I really should add a readme file there.

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For now, here is the jar file - download it somewhere, and then use

 javadoc -docletpath ltxdoclet.jar -doclet de.dclj.paul.ltxdoclet.DocletStart -help

to see a list of options available. (This will be in german, if you have no english locale. Prefix it with "LC_ALL=en_US" or similar on bash to get the english version, or have a look at help_en.txt instead if you don't know german.)

I'm working on a webpage with some more documentation, but I'm not sure when it will be ready.

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Now we have a webpage, too. It links the jar file, and also as an example the javadocs when applied to itself.

Answer 2

Texdoclet seems to be what you need. As for how to use it: just like any other doclet.