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Improve Doxygen docs

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Description

I just noticed that some of our doxygen docs pages aren't rendering correctly, for example

https://serac.readthedocs.io/en/latest/doxygen/html/classserac_1_1SolidFunctional.html

I suspect this is because of the fact the initial doxygen block comment is on a forward-declared class. There's also some discussion on the doxygen git repo here that may be relevant, relating to a bug with generating documentation for forward-declared class templates being fixed in v1.8.19

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Research direction

Start with the rendered classserac_1_1SolidFunctional.html page and the issue's Doxygen discussion, then inspect how the initial documentation block is attached to the forward-declared class. Determine whether the project’s Doxygen version or comment placement is responsible; done means the affected Doxygen pages render correctly.

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Assessment

Tech stack
cpp
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Documentation
Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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