A simple tutorial on how to document your python project. You can also download pdfepub versions of the sphinx documentation. Nov 29, 2011 for example, if sphinx is directed to generate a pdf from a documentation source, the file would be placed in the build directory. It also offers plaintext, pdf, epub, and latex builders. This python document generator uses restructuredtest as its markup language. Here is a quick and dirty cheat sheet for some common stuff you want to do in sphinx and rest. The generator is very convenient for programmers who have to display a lot of source code, automatically generated plots, or who need a good referencing system for their python modules, objects and equations.
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation for python projects or other documents consisting of multiple restructuredtext sources, written by georg brandl. Aug 14, 2014 you can refer to those index only if sphinx knowns where to find this index. Im not sure if there is a capacity to do this however i would love to be able to export to pdf directly from the hosted docs via a button on the page. The main function of the master document is to serve as a welcome page, and to contain the root of the table of contents tree or toctree.
It was originally created for the new python documentation, and has. Use the sphinxbuild command to build the docs, like so. If a techcomm team is unable to easily export documentation to pdf using the existing tool, then it doesnt prop. There is a japanese translation of this documentation, thanks to the japanese sphinx user group. Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by georg brandl and licensed under the bsd license. Full support for up to 256 fields was added in version 2. Rinohtype, paired with sphinx offers a modern alternative to latex.
If true, the pdf build from the latex files created by sphinx will use xindy doc 148 rather than makeindex for preparing the index of general. Serve over 16,000,000,000 yes billions documents, over 5tb data on about 40 boxes over 200,000,000 queriesday. First, create a doc directory at the root level and cd into that directory sphinxs quick start program will give you an option to make makefile and a windows. It creates web pages, requiring almost no effort from the user. Well also integrate this process into a cmake build system so that we have a unified workflow. Sphinx is a python documentation generator, it was created to generate the python documentation, so it is a very complete tool. The root directory of a sphinx collection of restructuredtext document sources is called the source directory. Aug 14, 2014 this example shows how to document your docstrings and how to interpret it within your rst document. Documentation style guide style guide for sphinxbased. Sphinx seems to take the view that the whole project is one document, and every. Personally, i find it easier just to call sphinx build directly. You can also build it as a single page html document. Generate sphinx documentation python documentation generator.
Publishing sphinxgenerated docs on github sphinxdoc. Sphinx, along with tox, makes it easy to write and beautiful to look at. Documentation using a custom theme or integrated in a website. How to create a pdf out of sphinx documentation tool. Building and uploading your sphinx docs to pypi an. Sphinx uses restructuredtext as its markup language, and many of its strengths come from the power and straightforwardness of restructuredtext and its parsing and translating suite, the docutils. When you need to read html builds of the documentation, best practice is to export documentation as static builds with sphinx build command, then host and serve these builds as static files.
Sphinx supports including latexstyle equations in the documentations. Sphinx also adds a few custom directives the prefixed functions like the toctree which allows you to embed the table of contents and link to another document. A japanese book about sphinx has been published by oreilly. Unfortunately, sphinx cant index those file types directly. If you viewing this document as a pdf or online as a html page then you are about to embark on a learning exercise that will teach you how to create pdfs and online documents using a bunch of tools such as sphinx and latex. Youll need to either import the textual contents into a database, or into an xml format that sphinx can understand. For instance, python provides such a file, by default sphinx knows about it. A simple tutorial on how to document your python project using. Sphinx user manual, with api and configuration reference. Sphinx section numbering for more than level 3 headings. This document describes the style guide for our documentation as well as the custom restructuredtext markup introduced by sphinx to support python documentation and how it should be used. You may also be interested in the very nice tutorial on how to create a customized documentation using sphinx written by the matplotlib developers. There used to be one until all my files were deleted except the.
It normally contains a table of contents that will link to all other pages of the documentation. But from the same source, it can also generate a latex. This is one of the main things that sphinx adds to restructuredtext, a way to connect multiple. Getting started with sphinx and readthedocs virtel 7. It was originally created for the python documentation, and it has excellent facilities. You can refer to those index only if sphinx knowns where to find this index. Note that the original contents of the fields are not stored in the sphinx index. Sphinx converts restructuredtext files into html websites and other formats including pdf, epub, texinfo and man. This directory also contains the sphinx configuration file conf. My simple one looks like this provenance documentation master file, created by sphinx quickstart on mon nov 7. Essentially you would list the different possible indexes that you would later make available to search in sphinx. This example shows how to document your docstrings and how to interpret it within your rst document. The default way of doing so relies on docstrings, which are defined in a triple quote format. Solr is the popular, blazing fast open source enterprise search platform from the apache lucene project.
I have a little question on the indexing procedure. If you are going for serious documentation, sphinx is the choice. So no cluttering of the main repo with autogenerated doc files, only the latest build of the pdf manual is included. I want to use this platform to host all the product documentation for my company. Pytorch is an optimized tensor library for deep learning using gpus and cpus.
Home get it docs extenddevelop sphinx home documentation. Sphinx has a page with more info on sphinxstyle restructuredtext syntax, and heres a page with general restructuredtext syntax. An idiots guide to python documentation with sphinx and. This is possible thanks to the intersphinx option in your configuration file. This section is a brief introduction to restructuredtext rest concepts and syntax, intended to provide authors with enough information to author documents productively. The documentation in html, pdf or epub format is generated from text files written using the restructuredtext format and contained in the cpython git repository.
How to generate api documentation with sphinx hans petter langtangen1. Sphinx is an open source full text search server, designed with performance, relevance search quality, and integration simplicity in mind. It is a kind of coding standards applied to documentation files. Sphinx index format generally supports up to 256 fields. 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. Im guessing its a pretty common use case not to want. The following code can be found at the end of a typical sphinx configuration file. This is the index file for the documentation, or what lives at. Assuming you enabled the autodoc extension, sphinx can be setup to automatically build a nice module index such as the one found on the goldilocks documentation with links to documentation generated from the docstrings of your modules and classes. In principle this works well, except that sphinx is recursively looking for. That do the conversion from restructured text to latex pdf format. Using sphinx for generating course content introduction. It was originally created for the python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages.
Sphinx s quick start program will give you an option to make makefile and a windows. With sphinx, you can auto document this module by including the following code within a rst document. The extension defines a new bibliography directive and a new cite role. You can see the literal source for this file at this file. Sphinx lets you either batch index and search data stored in files, an sql database, nosql storage or index and search data on the fly, working with sphinx pretty much as with a database server. How one can index these kinds of documents with sphinx is something that is often asked in the sphinx forum. How to correctly include other restfiles in a sphinxproject. Tools cant solve this problem in themselves, but they can ease the pain. Youll need to either import the textual contents into a database, or into an xml format. Documenting python packages with sphinx and readthedocs.
May 03, 2012 create a pdf document from your sphinx documentation using rst2pdf. I am using sphinx to conduct full text searches on my sql database mysql. Introduction to sphinx realtime indexes in this tutorial well look at the new realtime index type that ships with sphinx 1. The sphinx project is built as html, json or pdf, according to selected layout html, json or pdf output is copied to typo3confdocumentation extensionkey language format language is always default for english, unless a multilingual documentation is found, just as this extension does for french. Feb 24, 2018 the answer by vimalkumar velayudhan is really helpful, but, on the other hand, its too advanced to use for a common technical writer. For japanese documents, the default is the empty string. 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. There are a few different ways to do this, but i prefer using mathjax via the mathjax extension. Example on how to document your python docstrings sphinx. Be aware that there are at least two other packages with sphinxin their name. Let us consider a python module called template see bottom of the page. Jun 17, 2018 a simple tutorial on how to document your python project using sphinx and rinohtype. Docker image for building pdf based on sphinx rest files using cjkchinese, japanese, korean fonts. Sphinx is a great fulltext search engine with many amazing features, but there is one feature missing that would make it even better.
With xelatex and lualatex, sphinx configures the latex document to use polyglossia, but one should be aware that current babel has improved its support for unicode engines in recent years and for some languages it may make sense to prefer babel over polyglossia. Pytorch documentation pytorch master documentation. Since rest was designed to be a simple, unobtrusive markup language, this will not take too long. Index not created in pdf output, even though idx file is. Python code can include documentation right inside its source code. Indexing word documents and pdfs with sphinx stack overflow. From this information it generates next chapter, previous chapter and parent chapter links. The source document for both the pdf and html outputs is the same.
This behavior can be changed, but for consistency we will stick to the default format. You wont need to use this too much yet, but its good to be familiar with this file. To make prettier pdfs, remove the whole section in index. Managing bibliographic citations in sphinx wiser 0.
Sphinx is sensitive to indentation blocks and code snippets end when the. Restructured text rest and sphinx cheatsheet sphinx. This tool was created to support handwritten documentation. Not yet fully migrated from the previous version, so at the moment, they are broken into two different parts.