Edit Generic Source

Adding generic source files to your project, use this dialog box to specify the source files.

To specify comment types

In the Extension box, enter the filename extension with the dot.
In the Name box, enter a friendly name for the file type.
In the Comments box, click Add to define your comment type.
Do one of the following:
- Click Use all comments, to use all comments in your file.
- Click Use connected comments only, to use only comments that follow a topic ID and are not divided by empty lines or source lines.
- Click Use everything in the file, to use all comment and all source lines.
- Click Use comments and source until line, to use all source lines to a certain line and following that line only comments.
- In the End Line box, enter the separator line.

Terms

comments Text embedded in a program for documentation purposes.

generic source file A file of a programming language that Doc-O-Matic does not understand natively and interprets as DTX file. Comment styles must be specified and topic identifiers must be inserted manually for each symbol. For example, VB6, Ada and SQL files are generic source files.