Writing docstrings sphinxrtdtutorial documentation. How to create a pdf out of sphinx documentation tool. Of course, this site is also created from restructuredtext sources using sphinx. There are several different docstring formats which one can use in order to enable sphinxs autodoc extension to automatically generate documentation. Custom sphinx directives are used to show jupyter notebook code cells and of course their results in both html and latex output. Thus a data package transferred to or from the module will include a header, address, package identifier, package length, package content and checksum. It also offers plaintext, pdf, epub, and latex builders. The default way of doing so relies on docstrings, which are defined in a triple quote format. Documentation using a custom theme or integrated in a website. Sphinx is written in python, and supports the ability to write custom extensions. Sphinx with markdown how to use markdown with sphinx including markdown tables that sphinx does not handle by default for pdf and html. This tool provides an alternative by producing pdf directly using the reportlab library. The autodoc extension allows you to include restructuredtext in your docstrings, and will build an api reference automatically for your module from the. Sphinx not parallel installable for python2 and python3.
Python code can include documentation right inside its source code. It is unclear, on any given system, if the usrbinsphinx tools will be using python2 or python3, however projects which depend on sphinx must be able to assert that sphinx is installed for their python version, and have an api stable way of. Documenting python packages with sphinx and readthedocs. Sphinx can be installed usinghomebrew4,macports5, or as part of a python distribution such asanaconda6. The documents to include are given as document names, which in short means. Sphinx with markdown how to use markdown with sphinx. Using unicode with sphinx, restructuredtext, and pdf output. Install either python3sphinx python 3 or pythonsphinx python 2 using. It contains generic code to convert pythondocstyle latex markup to sphinx. By properly documenting your source code, sphinx will be able to generate nice looking documentation i like html for your project. In this blog post, ill provide examples of how i like to set up the documentation for my python project using sphinx. Build manual pages in groff format for unix systems.
Api project i wrote that manages a list of teacher records github project link. Problem labels in files included using include file. Is there a way to easily include the pdf in my project and have it copy over when i. Read the docs is a documentation hosting service based around sphinx. Sphinx extensions for embedded plots, math and more matplotlib. That means that the module or the package must be in one of the directories on sys. For converting the old python docs to sphinx, a converter was written which can be found atthe python svn repository. 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. If a techcomm team is unable to easily export documentation to pdf using the existing tool, then it doesnt prop.
The following tutorial will provide a series of steps which will. This section provides an overview of what pythonsphinx is, and why a developer might want to use it. The generated pdf will be in the buildpdf directory. 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. Work on rst2pdf has restarted on github, with the goals of supporting python 3, addressing outstanding issues, and not breaking. Sphinx provides a nice entry point via the sphinx bootstrap theme. It converts restructuredtext markup language into a range of output formats including html, latex for printable pdf versions, manual pages, and plain text there is also great, free hosting for your sphinx docs. Enables a builder to generate confluencecompatible markup documentation. It was originally created for the python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. After installing atlassian confluence builder for sphinx, a sphinx project can be configured to support the confluence builder. It is neither affiliated with stack overflow nor official pythonsphinx. Python 3 is the current and recommended version, and python 2 is an unsupported python version. Automatic python documentation with sphinx autodoc and.
Be aware that there are at least two other packages with sphinxin their name. Weve written a few for the matplotlib documentation, some of which are part of matplotlib itself in the matplotlib. A simple tutorial on how to document your python project using. All the content is extracted from stack overflow documentation, which is written by many hardworking individuals at stack overflow. They will host sphinx documentation, along with supporting a number of other features including version support, pdf generation, and more. You can also build it as a single page html document. The documentation in html, pdf or epub format is generated from text files written. Using unicode with sphinx, restructuredtext, and pdf. The restructuredtext book documentation, release 1. Built with sphinx using a theme provided by read the docs. A simple tutorial on how to document your python project using sphinx and. I have projects i generated with an older version of sphinx not sure what version, but it was 2016, that generated a much larger make. Ill be using sphinx and rinohtype to produce an html and pdf documentation. Documentation style guide style guide for sphinxbased.
If you are going for serious documentation, sphinx is the choice. Python documentation using sphinx patricks software blog. Build latex sources that can be compiled to a pdf document using pdflatex. In my project, ive got a doc subdirectory with the. Sphinx is far and away the most popular python documentation tool. In your docsource directory is now a python file called conf. Jupyter notebook tools for sphinx nbsphinx version 0.
It should also mention any large subjects within pythonsphinx, and link out to the related topics. This tutorial will walk you through the initial steps writing restructuredtext and sphinx, and deploying that code to read the docs. You can also embed external dot files, by giving the file. Sphinx, along with tox, makes it easy to write and beautiful to look at. Generating python documentation for packagesmodules can be quite time consuming, but theres a way to generate it automatically from docstrings. Sphinx extensions for embedded plots, math and more. Sphinx uses this to provide semantic markup and crossreferencing of. To get an idea of the syntax, click on the show source link in the right side bar, in any page the advantage of the rest syntax resides in its humanreadable nature, which makes it useful to include inside your source code e. Since the documentation for pythonsphinx is new, you may need to create initial versions of those related topics. This post is mostly a summary of the fantastic guide by sam nicholls found here, but with one important addition see the section on mocking. A domain is a collection of object types that belong together, complete with markup to create and reference descriptions of these objects.
You can configure it with commit hooks to your source. Sphinx is a documentation tool that creates html, css, and javascript files from restructured text files. Sphinx works with either major versions of python active today, python 2 and python 3. One of sphinxs main objectives is easy documentation of objects in a very general sense in any domain. Sphinx is much like python in this regard, but without a strong. If that is what is at stake, it can be achieved using a suitable \addtocontents, at a. The references are displayed as the name of the label in the pdf output instead of a clickable lin. In sphinx, the rendering display of the equations can be done in different ways, that will not be discussed here.
This extension uses the javascript package mathjax to transform. The getting started guide is a good place to start. Including external files in sphinx reinout van rees. Is there a way to easily include the pdf in my project and have it copy over when i build the docs. For this tutorial we will use the sphinx format, since, as the name suggests, it is the standar format used with sphinx. For converting the old python docs to sphinx, a converter was written which can be found atthe python svn repository6. For sphinx actually, the python interpreter that executes sphinx to find your module, it must be importable. Broken reference to label in included file pdf output. It contains generic code to convert pythondocstyle latex markup to.