JuliaDocs / JuliaDocs/DocStringExtensions.jl

New SUBTYPES exported key

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Description

I am often finding myself in the situation where I dewsign an interface, and the algorithm-deciding arugments of the interface are all subtypes of a main abstract type. Like

abstarct type A end

struct Method1 <: A end
struct Method2 <: A end

In this case, I always cross-reference the subtypes of A in the docstring of A, as the same docstring describes the interface. It would be great to have a SUBTYPES key in the extensions here, so that it expands all subtypes of A into a Documetner [@ref] wrapp.

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No file or test paths are mentioned. Start by locating the existing extension-key implementation and examining how its documented @ref expansion works; done means a SUBTYPES key expands the subtypes of an abstract type into Documenter @ref links as described by the example.

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julia
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documentation
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Feature
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