We believe the case for changing the formatting is self-evident. Please look at the Table.h, TableVector.h, and Array.h examples on Wes Young's home page (http://tarzan.aoc.nrao.edu/~wyoung/). In summary the improvements are
We propose to split the summary listings from the descriptive text and split the descriptive text for
each class into separate files. This allows us to produce summary only hardcopy and selective class hardcopy.
The current output of cxx2html precludes these options.
We recognize that the documentation system will be used by both code maintainers and developers as well as applications
programmers (library users). Each type of programmer has different needs in documentation; maintainers and developers
often need access to all information about a class while the application write really only cares about the public and
sometimes protected interface of a class. Implementing a user specified switch to display the private information
should satisfy both classes of programmers.