The source code for the plot may be included in one of three ways. The generated documentation is placed in documentationoutput the restructuredtext files may contain directives to include structured documentation comments, or kerneldoc comments. Sphinx will automatically copy image files over to a subdirectory of the output directory on building e. If no image converter is used it includes the first page only from the multipage pdf in the built pdf with its content visible. They will host sphinx documentation, along with supporting a number of other features including version support, pdf generation, and more. Sphinx has a page with more info on sphinxstyle restructuredtext syntax, and heres a page with general restructuredtext syntax. Sphinx supports including latexstyle equations in the documentations. Including external files in sphinx reinout van rees. It is recommended to use the rtd theme for html output. Documentation style guide style guide for sphinxbased. The rest command rst2latex use the width an hight of images and figures but the sphinx latex exporter use also \includegraphics to import the figure.
This will also cause sphinx to fail because the file doesnt exist. A link to sphinx home in citation style ref in printed documents the link will be listed similar as a citation, as opposed to html documents. If you want to use pdf files as images, you need to install pythonmagick. Have your packages toplevel directory sit right next to your sphinx makefileand conf. Sphinx is a documentation tool that creates html, css, and javascript files from restructured text files. Here, the second method would appear as restructured text rest and sphinx cheatsheet.
The references are equivalents when they differ only by case or number of spaces. 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. Using sphinx for python documentation shuns vineyard. Mupdf can access files in pdf, xps, openxps, cbz, epub and fb2 ebooks formats, and it is known for its top performance and high rendering quality. Add images rst sphinx sublime github documentation. To support markdownbased documentation, sphinx can use recommonmark. Install either python3sphinx python 3 or pythonsphinx python 2 using aptget. In your docsource directory is now a python file called conf. It was originally created for the python documentation, but is now used for many other software projects. Sphinx adding a link to an image or a figure stack overflow. Custom sphinx directives are used to show jupyter notebook code cells and of course their results in both html and latex output.
A directive for including a matplotlib plot in a sphinx document. Awesome sphinx python documentation generator github. Python 3 is the current and recommended version, and python 2 is an unsupported python version. 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. Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by georg brandl and licensed under the bsd license. Feb 24, 2016 autodocumenting your python code with sphinx part 1 as ive mentioned in part 1, sphinx as an automatic documentation generator for python is neither convenient nor simple. Sphinx is written in python, and supports the ability to write custom extensions. How to include test in your python docstrings using. Converting the normal user guide to pdf with sphinx via make latexpdf works quite well. Despite it being written in plaintext, it is powerful enough to create professional technical documentation, books, and websites. Im using sphinx to create documentation for a python project im working on.
Note we used the image directive to include to the screenshot above with. Restructured text rest and sphinx cheatsheet sphinx. I have some images, but i prefer to keep them pretty small, and i want to allow the user to click on them to get the larger image. For instance, the introduction page is an external page with a link called introduction at the top of the page. For example, you can add crossfile references in a portable way which works for all output types using the ref role for an example, if you are viewing the html version, you can look at the source for this document use the show source. Jupyter notebook tools for sphinx nbsphinx version 0. Is there a way to easily include the pdf in my project and have it copy over when i build the docs. This is the file that controls the basics of how sphinx runs when you run a build. For more information about creating links using restructured text and sphinx, see sphinx hyperlinks. The ipython directive is a stateful ipython shell for embedding in sphinx documents.
I have a fairly complex project with a fairly large documentation. How to link to python modules, classes, functions, methods, attributes. A figure consists of image data including image options, an optional caption a single paragraph, and an optional legend arbitrary body elements. It is a kind of coding standards applied to documentation files. It knows about standard ipython prompts, and extracts the input and output lines. In such case, you ant to skip the correctness of the output. With sphinx, also latex and pdf output can be generated. Affordable and search from millions of royalty free images, photos and vectors. Read the docs is a documentation hosting service based around sphinx. It can produce html, latex, epub and pdf documents. Sphinx works with either major versions of python active today, python 2 and python 3.
One problem that i have with sphinx i guess im not the only one is that it does a lot of magics about paths, filenames, references etc. Sphinx is extensible, supports multiple output formats and custom themes for generated html. It generates it from restructuredtext sources, but can also generate api pages using autodoc extension. Sphinx then searches for all images matching the provided pattern and determines their type. On has to put relative pathsor webpage absolute paths from the file having the link to the image. Rst2pdf includes an experimental pdf extension for sphinx. Sphinx can be installed usinghomebrew4,macports5, or as part of a python distribution such asanaconda6. To support markdown based documentation, sphinx can use recommonmark. It is easy to read and write because it is just regular text and all you need is a simple text editor. Sphinx extension to add the drawio directive to include draw. However, if i also want to include the library reference with all function, class, and module documentations, the. So readers using such programs actually lose some content. May, 2017 generating python documentation for packagesmodules can be quite time consuming, but theres a way to generate it automatically from docstrings.
It would be better to use editable svgs or pngs, accessible through draw. From the documenation there are two image directives. Generate sphinx documentation python documentation generator. Discover how sphinx abstracts the tedious parts and offers automatic functions to solve common problems like title indexing and special code highlighting. You can include links to other locations in the same document, to locations in other documents and to external websites. Sphinx warns about not readable image file although. Sphinx uses restructuredtext as its markup language.
The main purpose of the sample project is not only to be a sample code for this sphinx tutorial, but also to. For complete details, the restructuredtext markup specification is the place to go. Turn a hard copy book into a webbased version with sphinx. Autodocumenting your python code with sphinx part 2 roman. Using sphinx for generating course content introduction to.
For pagebased output media, figures might float to a different position if this helps the page layout. To get proper figure size in latex generated by sphinx you may have either to. The quick restructuredtext user reference is a good place to go next. Whats the best way to include a pdf in my sphinx documentation. Users who have questions or need assistance with docutils or restructuredtext should post a message to the docutilsusers mailing list. To build the documentation in html or pdf formats, use make htmldocs or make pdfdocs. I have three images i would like to display in a 1x3 grid i. That means that the module or the package must be in one of the directories on sys. Markdown is a lightweight markup language with a simplistic plain text formatting syntax. Nov 29, 2011 create maintainable, styledriven documents that can be automatically distributed in different formats using sphinx. Now, you may say that you do not know the expecting result or do not care about it or it may be random. This extension does not work on readthedocs as rtd does not allow packages e.
Change the versionrelease number by setting the version and release variables. Each builder then chooses the best image out of these candidates. The linux kernel uses sphinx to generate pretty documentation from restructuredtext files under documentation. Python how to avoid the too deeply nested error when. This tutorial uses a simple python project sample project to demonstrates how to use sphinx to generate htmlbased documents. Sphinx extensions for embedded plots, math and more. The getting started guide is a good place to start. Sphinx is the tool used by the python project to produce their own documentation, so it is built using python. So, if youre willing to use those versions, you should run pip install docutils0.
Weve written a few for the matplotlib documentation, some of which are part of matplotlib itself in the matplotlib. In sphinx source files, you can use most features of standard restructuredtext. Building and uploading your sphinx docs to pypi an. In order to get started, you will need to install python on your system. Documenting python packages with sphinx and readthedocs. Automatic python documentation with sphinx autodoc and. It is well documented by following numpy style docstrings. The reference target is composed of words made of alphabetic and numeric characters and characters in the set.
It was originally created for the python documentation, and it has excellent facilities for the documentation of software projects in a range of languages. I have a pdf that has some in depth explanation for an example in the sphinx documentation for a package i have. Interpretation of image size options width and height is as follows. The inputs will be fed to an embedded ipython interpreter and the outputs from that interpreter will be inserted as well. While pngmath displays an equation as an image, mathjax is using scalable vector. An image is a simple picture a figure consists of image data including image options, an optional caption a single paragraph, and an optional legend arbitrary body elements. The sample project is a simple binary search tree and binary tree traversal implementation. You add images to restructured text with the image directive. For sphinx actually, the python interpreter that executes sphinx to find your module, it must be importable. It is useful for inline program documentation such as python docstrings, for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. Note that the second method is compulsary if the link is to be found in an external rst file. There are a few different ways to do this, but i prefer using mathjax via the mathjax extension. Including multipage pdf via imgconverter fails issue.