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namespace or file). See section \ref structuralcommands to learn more
about structural commands.
</ol>
-Files can only be documented using the second option.
+Files can only be documented using the second option, since there is
+no way to but a documentation block before a file. Of course, file members
+(functions, variable, typedefs, defines) do not need an explicit
+structural command; just putting a special documentation block in front or
+behind them will do.
+
The text inside a special documentation block is parsed
before it is written to the HTML and/or \f$\mbox{\LaTeX}\f$ output files.