This is suitable for changes that only need minor css modifications. Generating documentation using sphinx just add sharks. External relative link in sphinx toctree directive. The theme places the global toc, local toc, navigation prev, next and source links all in the top bootstrap navigation bar, along with the sphinx search bar on the left side. This file defines what the index of your documentation tree looks like. An absolute, or full, path begins with a drive letter followed by a colon, such as d relative path. Sphinx knows the relative order of the documents intro, strings and so forth, and it knows that they are children of the shown document, the library index.
External relative link in sphinx toc tree directive. Autostructify is a component in recommonmark that takes a parsed docutil ast by commonmarkparser, and transform it to another ast that introduces some of more. You can vote up the examples you like or vote down the ones you dont like. A list of paths that contain custom themes, either as subdirectories or as zip files. Boolean determining whether the toc sidebar should include hidden sphinx toctree elements. Here, the second method would appear as restructured text rest and sphinx cheatsheet note that the second method is compulsary if the link is to be found in an external rst file.
That means that the module or the package must be in one of the directories on sys. A relative path refers to a location that is relative to a current directory. How to link to external libraries using python sphinx. This is the third occasion that ive come to set up a python package with all the trimmings, including nice looking sphinxbacked documentation hosted on readthedocs. I want to have a link from the documentation to the api reference. A list of strings that are module names of sphinx extensions. Relative paths are taken as relative to the configuration directory. The good news is that there are several tools that will make presenting and publishing it very easy, leaving you only to write the content and mark it up. Add filename as a dependency of the current document. The toctree directive is a fundamental part of this structure.
Sometimes i have custom named anchors in text i want to link to from the toctree, but they dont autorender because theyre not headings, and putting headings near them would severely uglify the documentation. Using sphinx for generating course content introduction to. In markdown, usually we manually list of contents by a bullet list of url reference to the other documents. If no argument is given, output is placed in the same directory as the file that. When you ran sphinxquickstart in step 3 it should have generated an index. These can either be absolute, or relative to sphinxs conf. Since rest does not have facilities to interconnect several documents, or split documents into multiple output files, sphinx uses a custom directive to add relations between the single files the documentation is made of, as well as tables of contents. The global sitewide table of contents is the site navigation dropdown, which is a configurable level rendering of the toctree for the. This enables additional features of recommonmark syntax, to introduce more structure into. Links to notebooks and other sphinx source files links to sphinx source files can be created like normal sphinx hyperlinks, just using a relative path to the local file.
Remember that document names use as the path separator and dont contain the file name extension. Sphinx the theme places the global toc, local toc, navigation prev, next and source links all in the top bootstrap navigation bar, along with the sphinx search bar on the left side. The following gives a very basic setup to get started as quick as possible. An idiots guide to python documentation with sphinx and.
Autostructify transforms bullet list of document urls like this. Fix sphinxquickstart asking again for yesno questions because input returns values with an extra r on python 3. From this information it generates next chapter, previous chapter and. One of the main concepts in sphinx is that it allows multiple pages to be combined into a cohesive hierarchy. These can be extensions coming with sphinx named sphinx. Yaydoc has been supporting custom themes from nearly its inception. Sphinx knows that the relative order of the documents intro, strings and so forth, and it knows that they are children of the shown document, the library index. The toctree option also signals to the sphinx autogen script that stub pages should be generated for the entries listed in this directive. Various templatelevel or nontrivialstyle settings can be configured via your conf. See sphinx build configuration file docs for more information on the settings below. Themes, which it could not find locally, it would automatically try to install it via pip and set up appropriate metadata about the themes in the generated conf. This article introduces documentation with sphinx for python projects and is intended as a quick getting started document. How to get full path of current files directory in python. Publishing sphinxgenerated docs on github sphinxdoctest.
For sphinx actually, the python interpreter that executes sphinx to find your module, it must be importable. If no argument is given, output is placed in the same directory as the file that contains the directive. It takes the same parameters as the toctree directive. If your extension path is relative to the configuration directory, use os. Turns out that relative path names dont work in index. Later, i found that the entries in the toctree s are not file paths, but names of documents. The toc tree since rest does not have facilities to interconnect several documents, or split documents into multiple output files, sphinx uses a custom directive to add relations between the single files the documentation is made of, as well as tables of contents.
If you have installed sphinx inside a virtual environment which is a really, really great. It is also the third occasion where ive spent a few hours and a dozen commits trying to work out how i made everything work last time. Restructured text rest and sphinx cheatsheet sphinx. Jinja is a textbased engine, and inspired by django templates, so anyone having used django will already be familiar with it. Have your packages toplevel directory sit right next to your sphinx makefileand conf. Fix web support with relative path to source directory. The toctree directive allows you to insert other files within a rst file. Sphinx include toctree from subdirectory in index toctree. The following are code examples for showing how to use sphinx. How to print the full traceback without halting the program. So relative includes might not be possible here as those arent file paths.
This is a command to generate table of contents and tell sphinx about the structure of the documents. External relative link in sphinx toctree directive stack. Sphinx is much better looking, plus can include module, class, and function documentation to boot, hence going through all this trouble. In case that the reader uses sphinx on a personal machine, then the path to where mathjax is located might be different of course. Copyright 20072010 by the sphinx team, see authors. Including external files in sphinx reinout van rees. The reason to use this directive is that rst does not have facilities to interconnect several documents, or split. Table of contents tree toctree now would be a good time to introduce the toctree.
Using sphinx for generating course content introduction. This means that the document will be rebuilt if this file changes. Include other rst files with the toctree directive sooner or later you will want to structure your project documentation by having several rst files. The sphinxquickstart utility will create a makefile for you, you are advised to create an explicit clean target that removes the generated utilities. Publishing sphinxgenerated docs on github sphinxdoc. The option accepts a directory name as an argument. You can read more about this in the sphinx toctree docs. The toctree option also signals to the sphinxautogen script that stub pages should be generated for the entries listed in this directive. This path can be a path relative to the documentation source directory or an absolute path.
A directory that has userdefined templates to override our default templates. Since the rest source files can have different extensions some people like. I have my docs in a directory and the api reference in directory name api inside of it. Sphinx is a documentation generator based on interpretation of restructuredtext abbr.
This file was originally created by sphinxquickstart, then modified by hand. Sphinx autosummary toctree contains reference to nonexisting document warnings. Relative paths make use of two special symbols, a dot. Documentation using sphinx and without documentation, however wonderful your software, other potential adopters and developers simply wont be very interested in it. This is the third occasion that ive come to set up a python package with all the trimmings, including nice looking sphinx backed documentation hosted on readthedocs. The term fullyqualified name refers to a string that names an importable python object inside a module. An path relative to where sphinxbuild is run is allowed for backwards compatibility only and will be removed in a future version. The official extension is used and its location on the server is specified. The path can either be absolute, or relative to the root of the documentation directory ie the directory with the conf. The global sitewide table of contents is the site navigation dropdown, which is a configurable level rendering of the toctree for the entire.
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