What is HeaderFile in Doxygen?

Question

I run this command unsuccessufully

doxygen -w latex headerFile styleSheetFile project.doxy

Answer 1

Doxygen will produce LaTeX output if you set GENERATE_LATEX=YES in your doxygen configuration file.

The command you quoted instructs doxygen to write its default LaTeX document header and stylesheet to files, so this should have created two files, named headerFile and styleSheetFile. This is explained in the doxygen documentation here.

You can then use the LATEX_HEADER option in your configuration file to tell doxygen to use your header file instead of its default, and this allows you to customise the style of the document. LATEX_HEADER is described here.