diff --git a/docs/doxygen/mainpages/platdetails.h b/docs/doxygen/mainpages/platdetails.h
index 6daca76a2d..53a5163f9b 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/mainpages/platdetails.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/mainpages/platdetails.h
@@ -43,14 +43,14 @@ on systems even with a much earlier version of GTK+. You will have to ensure
 that the application is launched with lazy symbol binding for that.
 
 In order to configure wxWidgets to compile wxGTK you will need use the
-@c --with-gtk argument to the @c configure script. This is the default for many
+@c \--with-gtk argument to the @c configure script. This is the default for many
 systems.
 
 GTK+ 1.2 can still be used, albeit discouraged. For that you can pass
-@c --with-gtk=1 to the @c configure script.
+@c \--with-gtk=1 to the @c configure script.
 
 Support for GTK+ 3 is available starting with wxWidgets 2.9.4, use @c configure
-option @c --with-gtk=3 to enable it.
+option @c \--with-gtk=3 to enable it.
 
 For further information, please see the files in @c docs/gtk in the
 distribution.
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/mainpages/samples.h b/docs/doxygen/mainpages/samples.h
index 8c2a24594e..00fb5cfb7a 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/mainpages/samples.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/mainpages/samples.h
@@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ This sample shows how to use the common dialogs available from wxWidgets. These
 dialogs are described in detail in the @ref overview_cmndlg.
 
 In addition to the dialogs accessible from the sample menus, you can also run
-it with a <code>--progress=style</code> command line option to show a
+it with a <code>\--progress=style</code> command line option to show a
 wxProgressDialog with the given style (try 0 for the default style) on program
 startup, before the main window is shown.
 
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/backwardcompatibility.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/backwardcompatibility.h
index 8a034e0695..b316cefe95 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/backwardcompatibility.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/backwardcompatibility.h
@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@ next earlier stable branch the default is 0, so @c WXWIN_COMPATIBILITY_2_4 = 0
 for 2.8.x. Earlier than that, obsolete features are removed.
 
 These macros can be changed in @c setup.h. Or on UNIX-like systems you can set
-them using the @c --disable-compat26 and @c --enable-compat24 options to
+them using the @c \--disable-compat26 and @c \--enable-compat24 options to
 configure.
 
 They can be useful in two ways:
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/container.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/container.h
index 931ef70671..fb76209eb5 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/container.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/container.h
@@ -96,8 +96,8 @@ uses its knowledge about wxString reference counting schema.
 
 To build wxWidgets with the standard containers you need to set
 wxUSE_STD_CONTAINERS option to 1 in @c wx/msw/setup.h for wxMSW builds or
-specify @c --enable-std_containers option to configure (which is also
-implicitly enabled by @c --enable-stl option) in Unix builds.
+specify @c \--enable-std_containers option to configure (which is also
+implicitly enabled by @c \--enable-stl option) in Unix builds.
 
 The standard container build is mostly, but not quite, compatible with the
 default one. Here are the most important differences:
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/envvars.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/envvars.h
index 3e406b8ea1..b3604df420 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/envvars.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/envvars.h
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@ wxWidgets programs.
         (Unix only.)
         Overrides installation prefix. Normally, the prefix
         is hard-coded and is the same as the value passed to @c configure via
-        the @c --prefix switch when compiling the library (typically
+        the @c \--prefix switch when compiling the library (typically
         @c /usr/local or @c /usr). You can set WXPREFIX if you are for example
         distributing a binary version of an application and you don't know in advance
         where it will be installed.}
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/exceptions.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/exceptions.h
index e4f0e3395c..2e1467fca3 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/exceptions.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/exceptions.h
@@ -114,10 +114,10 @@ documentation of these functions for more details.
 To use any kind of exception support in the library you need to build it
 with @c wxUSE_EXCEPTIONS set to 1. It is turned on by default but you may
 wish to check @c include/wx/msw/setup.h file under Windows or run @c configure
-with explicit @c --enable-exceptions argument under Unix.
+with explicit @c \--enable-exceptions argument under Unix.
 
 On the other hand, if you do not plan to use exceptions, setting this
-flag to 0 or using @c --disable-exceptions could result in a leaner and
+flag to 0 or using @c \--disable-exceptions could result in a leaner and
 slightly faster library.
 
 As for any other library feature, there is a sample (@c except)
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/nonenglish.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/nonenglish.h
index 7794ac6ac0..37d8c9c836 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/nonenglish.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/nonenglish.h
@@ -108,7 +108,7 @@ catalog, you may configure wxWidgets to use non-English msgids and translate to
 English using message catalogs:
 
 @li If you use the program @c xgettext to extract the strings from the source
-    code, specify the option <tt>--from-code=@<source code charset@></tt>.
+    code, specify the option <tt>\--from-code=@<source code charset@></tt>.
 @li Specify the source code language and charset as arguments to
     wxLocale::AddCatalog. For example:
     @code
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/unicode.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/unicode.h
index c6c909416f..c79e754335 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/unicode.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/unicode.h
@@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ under all systems. Thus, under Microsoft Windows, UCS-2 (simplified version of
 UTF-16 without support for surrogate characters) is used as @c wchar_t is 2
 bytes on this platform. Under Unix systems, including OS X, UCS-4 (also
 known as UTF-32) is used by default, however it is also possible to build
-wxWidgets to use UTF-8 internally by passing @c --enable-utf8 option to
+wxWidgets to use UTF-8 internally by passing @c \--enable-utf8 option to
 configure.
 
 The interface provided by wxString is the same independently of the format used
@@ -208,7 +208,7 @@ of conversions (and also reduced memory usage of UTF-8 compared to UTF-32 for
 the European languages) can be important. If the environment in which your
 program is running is under your control -- as is quite often the case in such
 scenarios -- consider ensuring that the system always uses UTF-8 locale and
-use @c --enable-utf8only configure option to disable support for the other
+use @c \--enable-utf8only configure option to disable support for the other
 locales and consider all strings to be in UTF-8. This further reduces the code
 size and removes the need for conversions in more cases.
 
@@ -216,7 +216,7 @@ size and removes the need for conversions in more cases.
 @subsection overview_unicode_settings Unicode Related Preprocessor Symbols
 
 @c wxUSE_UNICODE is defined as 1 now to indicate Unicode support. It can be
-explicitly set to 0 in @c setup.h under MSW or you can use @c --disable-unicode
+explicitly set to 0 in @c setup.h under MSW or you can use @c \--disable-unicode
 under Unix but doing this is strongly discouraged. By default, @c
 wxUSE_UNICODE_WCHAR is also defined as 1, however in UTF-8 build (described in
 the previous section), it is set to 0 and @c wxUSE_UNICODE_UTF8, which is
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h
index 151e57444c..98c317e205 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/unixprinting.h
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ using PostScript which never really matched the screen display.
 
 Since GTK+ 2.10, support for printing has been added to GTK+ itself and
 beginning with wxWidgets 2.9, GTK+ printing is used by default (i.e. unless
-<tt>--without-gtkprint</tt> was explicitly used when configuring the library).
+<tt>\--without-gtkprint</tt> was explicitly used when configuring the library).
 Support for GTK+ print is detected dynamically, i.e. during the run-time: if it
 is found, printing will be done through GTK+, otherwise the application will
 fall back to the old PostScript printing code. This allows the applications
diff --git a/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc.h b/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc.h
index 8f2fd55506..0580ec715e 100644
--- a/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc.h
+++ b/docs/doxygen/overviews/xrc.h
@@ -255,19 +255,19 @@ To compile binary resource files, use the command-line @c wxrc utility. It
 takes one or more file parameters (the input XRC files) and the following
 switches and options:
 
-@li -h (--help): Show a help message.
-@li -v (--verbose): Show verbose logging information.
-@li -c (--cpp-code): Write C++ source rather than a XRS file.
-@li -e (--extra-cpp-code): If used together with -c, generates C++ header file
+@li -h (\--help): Show a help message.
+@li -v (\--verbose): Show verbose logging information.
+@li -c (\--cpp-code): Write C++ source rather than a XRS file.
+@li -e (\--extra-cpp-code): If used together with -c, generates C++ header file
     containing class definitions for the windows defined by the XRC file (see
     special subsection).
-@li -u (--uncompressed): Do not compress XML files (C++ only).
-@li -g (--gettext): Output underscore-wrapped strings that poEdit or gettext
+@li -u (\--uncompressed): Do not compress XML files (C++ only).
+@li -g (\--gettext): Output underscore-wrapped strings that poEdit or gettext
     can scan. Outputs to stdout, or a file if -o is used.
-@li -n (--function) @<name@>: Specify C++ function name (use with -c).
-@li -o (--output) @<filename@>: Specify the output file, such as resource.xrs
+@li -n (\--function) @<name@>: Specify C++ function name (use with -c).
+@li -o (\--output) @<filename@>: Specify the output file, such as resource.xrs
     or resource.cpp.
-@li -l (--list-of-handlers) @<filename@>: Output a list of necessary handlers
+@li -l (\--list-of-handlers) @<filename@>: Output a list of necessary handlers
     to this file.
 
 For example:
diff --git a/interface/wx/app.h b/interface/wx/app.h
index 1ec548eadb..fcaf21111a 100644
--- a/interface/wx/app.h
+++ b/interface/wx/app.h
@@ -311,7 +311,7 @@ public:
     virtual bool OnCmdLineError(wxCmdLineParser& parser);
 
     /**
-        Called when the help option (@c --help) was specified on the command line.
+        Called when the help option (@c \--help) was specified on the command line.
         The default behaviour is to show the program usage text and abort the program.
 
         Return @true to continue normal execution or @false to return
diff --git a/interface/wx/hashmap.h b/interface/wx/hashmap.h
index d0bf672e29..da3b1b4032 100644
--- a/interface/wx/hashmap.h
+++ b/interface/wx/hashmap.h
@@ -146,7 +146,7 @@
     ++it ( and it++ ) to move to the next element, *it to access the element pointed to,
     it->first ( it->second ) to access the key ( value ) of the element pointed to.
 
-    Hash maps provide forward only iterators, this means that you can't use --it,
+    Hash maps provide forward only iterators, this means that you can't use \--it,
     it + 3, it1 - it2.
 
 
diff --git a/interface/wx/hashset.h b/interface/wx/hashset.h
index a7b19f5ae1..7d1743bc9e 100644
--- a/interface/wx/hashset.h
+++ b/interface/wx/hashset.h
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
     An iterator is similar to a pointer, and so you can use the usual pointer
     operations: ++it ( and it++ ) to move to the next element, *it to access the
     element pointed to, *it to access the value of the element pointed to.
-    Hash sets provide forward only iterators, this means that you can't use --it,
+    Hash sets provide forward only iterators, this means that you can't use \--it,
     it + 3, it1 - it2.
 
     @library{wxbase}
diff --git a/interface/wx/log.h b/interface/wx/log.h
index c92daf9a7a..7b5dc8de73 100644
--- a/interface/wx/log.h
+++ b/interface/wx/log.h
@@ -1282,7 +1282,7 @@ void wxVLogInfo(const char* formatString, va_list argPtr);
     activated by calling wxLog::SetVerbose().
 
     Notice that this is done automatically by wxWidgets, unless the standard
-    command line handling is overridden, if @c --verbose option is specified on
+    command line handling is overridden, if @c \--verbose option is specified on
     the program command line, so using these functions provides a simple way of
     having some diagnostic messages not shown by default but which can be
     easily shown by the user if needed.
diff --git a/interface/wx/textctrl.h b/interface/wx/textctrl.h
index 4af72681fd..dd91ef5914 100644
--- a/interface/wx/textctrl.h
+++ b/interface/wx/textctrl.h
@@ -1613,7 +1613,7 @@ public:
         inheriting wxTextCtrl from @c std::streambuf in which case this class is
         not compiled in.
         You also must have @c wxUSE_STD_IOSTREAM option on (i.e. set to 1) in your
-        @c setup.h to be able to use it. Under Unix, specify @c --enable-std_iostreams
+        @c setup.h to be able to use it. Under Unix, specify @c \--enable-std_iostreams
         switch when running configure for this.
 
     Example of usage: