Edit Section

How to get here: In Settings on the General Settings tab, select [General Settings] > Sections.

To edit sections

In the Name box, type a unique name for your section. You must not use the name for another section in your project.
Click the Type arrow to display the list. For details, see the Section Type table.
To replace text or a character, select the Output Replacing check box. For example, you might replace "," by spaces (enter spaces) or paragraphs (enter: \n). The text is replaced in all output formats.
To remove additional spaces in the output, select the Trim check box.
If you use XMLDoc as documentation standard, select the XML tags in the XMLDoc tags list or enter them in the XMLDoc box.
If you use Javadoc as documentation standard, select the Javadoc tags in the Javadoc tags list or enter them in the Javadoc box.
In the Description box, describe the purpose of the section.
Under Options, turn on one of the following options:

Option	Meaning
Autolink	Turns on or off the autolinking feature within the section.
Remove line feeds	Removes line feeds. If this option is turned on, Doc-O-Matic joins adjacent lines.
Remove spaces	Removes unnecessary white spaces. If this option is turned on, Doc-O-Matic turns a sequence of white spaces into one single white space.
Replace link text with target title	Replaces the link text with the target title. This applies for manually added links and for automatically created links. For example if you use function names as link text but you want the symbols title (classname::membername or classname.membername) to appear as link text in the output you can turn on this feature for each section that you use.
In Separate Line	Section text starts in a new line in the DTX or source file. If this option is turned on the section heading (starter) is written in a separate line. If it is turned off, the section text follows the starter at the same line, separated by a Section Delimiter.
End automatically after paragraph	Section ends automatically after a paragraph, the following text till the next section delimiter is displayed as default section. This style is not used in the editor.

Terms

automatic linking A Doc-O-Matic feature that automatically creates links from words or symbol names to topics the topic IDs of which are the same as the words or symbol names or can be associated with them.

line feed ASCII character that moves the insertion point to the next line.

section delimiters Characters that separate section text from section starters.

DTX file (.dtx file) A file that Doc-O-Matic uses to store comments and topic text. DTX files are also called Topic Files.

Automatically Created Sections

Section (Default)	Section (VS-Template)	Type	Settings Page
Body Source	Body Source	Symbol Body Source	Body Source Code
Class Hierarchy	Inheritance Hierarchy	Class Hierarchy	Local Class Hierarchy
Container	Container	Symbol Container	Container Section Options
Pascal, C++, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, MATLAB, JavaScript, IDL, Java	Pascal, C++, C#, Visual Basic, PHP, MATLAB, JavaScript, IDL, Java	Syntax	Multi Language Syntax, Syntax Highlight
Links	Links	Topic Links	Navigation Links Format (HTML)
Reports	Reports	Reports	Section Format (HTML, PDF, RTF), Table Layout
Overload List	Overload List	Overload List	Content Options
Navigation	Navigation	Topic Navigation	Section Format (HTML, PDF, RTF), Table Layout, Content Options
Members	Members	Member Description Section	Section Options