title: How do I specify a description for an \xrefitem in Doxygen?
body: <p>I am using the <a href="http://www.doxygen.nl/manual/commands.html#cmdxrefitem" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>\xrefitem</code> command</a> to create a bunch of user-defined sections that are all automatically cross-referenced. For example, one of the aliases I use looks like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>hack=\xrefitem hack \"Hack\" \"Wall of Shame\""
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This all works well. The documentation is generated exactly as I want, and a link to the "Wall of Shame" appears on the "Related Pages" page:</p>
  
  <p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/waKEn.png" alt="&quot;Related Pages&quot; page, with &quot;Wall of Shame&quot; link. Note the empty description field."></p>
  
  <p>But <strong>I can't figure out how to add a description to the right of this link.</strong> That empty description cell there is just begging to be filled. How can I make it happy?</p>
  
  <p>Although the documentation doesn't indicate that this is valid syntax, I tried appending a description to the end of the alias, like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>hack=\xrefitem hack \"Hack\" \"Wall of Shame\" \"Some sample descriptive text\""
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>but it didn't work; it just broke everything else.</p>