doxyfy.py

# SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT

import sys
from pathlib import Path

def anchorstring(str):
    doxyref=str.replace("/", "")
    # can't simply use lower() as github-markdown retains non-leading uppercase characters
    # so lowercase only every char after a space:
    drwords = doxyref.split(" ")
    doxyref = ""
    i = 0
    while i < len(drwords):
        if len(drwords[i]) != 0:
            doxyref = doxyref+drwords[i][0].lower() + drwords[i][1:]
        if i < len(drwords)-1:
           doxyref=doxyref+"-"
        i=i+1
    return doxyref

def reformat_anchors(s):
   if "](#" in s:
      i = s.index("](#") + 3
      j = s[i:].index(")") + i
      return s[0:i] + anchorstring(s[i:j]) + s[j:]
   else: 
      return s

if len(sys.argv) != 3 or not Path(sys.argv[1]).is_file():
   print("Expecting original and new file location. Exiting.")
   exit(1)

infile = open(sys.argv[1], 'r')
lines = infile.readlines()

with open(sys.argv[2], "w") as outfile:
    # ll is last line: can only be written when anchor property is known
    # and that propery can be set with subsequent line of "==="
    ll = None
    possibleanchor = None
    for line in lines:
        nl = line
        if line.startswith("#"): # anchor for sure
            # space must exist
            si = line.index(" ")
            doxyref=anchorstring(line[si+1:].strip())
            nl = line[0:si] + " " + line[si+1:].strip() + " {#"+doxyref+"}\n"
        elif nl.startswith("==="): # previous line is anchor
            ll = possibleanchor
        else: # create anchor markup just in case...
            possibleanchor=line.strip()+" {#"+anchorstring(line.strip())+"}\n"
            if ll is not None:
               ll = reformat_anchors(ll)
        # write last line
        if ll is not None: outfile.write(ll)
        ll = nl
    # write final line
    outfile.write(ll)