Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation, written by georg brandl and licensed under the bsd license. I found many explanation how to do this in linux, but no good explanation how to do this in windows. There is a translation team in transifex of this documentation, thanks to the sphinx document translators. Documenting python projects with sphinx and read the docs. Learning pythonsphinx ebook pdf download this ebook for free chapters. In this blog post, ill provide examples of how i like to set up the documentation for my python project using sphinx. Cmu sphinx toolkit has a number of packages for different tasks and applications. You can also download pdfepub versions of the sphinx documentation from pop. In your docsource directory is now a python file called conf.
Work on rst2pdf has restarted on github, with the goals of supporting python 3. Epub and qt help, plain text, manual pages and latex or direct pdf output using. Sphinx svg to pdf converter extension this extension converts svg images to pdf in case the builder does not support svg images natively e. Sphinx is far and away the most popular python documentation tool. Basically i copied epub, tweak themes, core code and add mobi option into sphinxquickstart. The inputs will be fed to an embedded ipython interpreter and the outputs from that interpreter will be inserted as well. How to create a pdfoutofsphinxdocumentationtool stack. Python documentation using sphinx patricks software blog.
Get started writing technical documentation with sphinx and publishing to read the docs. A format is selected by specifying the builder name on the. Sphinx is extensible, supports multiple output formats and custom themes for generated html. Documentation using a custom theme or integrated in a website.
I have been able to generate html and pdf output using sphinx. Download text role but for some reason this results in links that look like download text. Sphinx is a python project, so it can be installed like any other python library. A japanese book about sphinx has been published by oreilly. You must be running python 3, and it looks like rst2pdf at least the version available. Mahdi yusuf 6 lessons 17m bestpractices intermediate. By properly documenting your source code, sphinx will be able to generate nice looking documentation i like html for your project. How to create pdf documentation with sphinx in windows. Sphinx was developed to work on windows xp, windows vista, windows 7, windows 8 or windows 10 and is compatible with 32bit systems. The usual way of creating pdf from restructuredtext is by going through latex. In this video series well cover creating python documentation from scratch using sphinx, as well as getting your code repository hooked up to read the docs, to automatically build and publish your code documentation. 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. My goal was to collect interesting short examples of python programs, examples that tackle a realworld problem and exercise various features of the python language. The restructuredtext book documentation, release 1.
Sphinx supports the inclusion of docstrings from your modules with an extension an extension is a python module that provides additional features for sphinx projects called autodoc. Documenting your project using sphinx python hosted. Building and uploading your sphinx docs to pypi an. Want to be notified of new releases in sphinxdocsphinx. The generated pdf will be in the buildpdf directory. It was originally created for the python documentation, and it has excellent.
The rest markups currently used by the documentation files are meant to be built with sphinx version 1. It knows about standard ipython prompts, and extracts the input and output lines. Once sphinx is installed, you can proceed with setting up your first sphinx project. Sphinx extension that allows building versioned docs for selfhosting. Advanced users can install this in a virtualenv if they wish. Now with full document storage, attribute indexes, json key compression, updated index format, and a bunch more improvements. During documenting a python library using sphinx and the rtd theme i was linking some pdf files for download using the. To generate sphinx documentation select sphinx task rundebug configuration, and change it as required. To install rst2pdf on windows you also need python because rst2pdf is coded in python.
Were going to use the sphinxquickstart tool here, though its use is by no means necessary. These archives contain all the content in the documentation. If you want to generate the sphinx infrastructure in a different directory, specify it in the sphinx working directory field of the python integrated tools page. It is useful for inline program documentation such as python docstrings, for quickly creating simple web pages, and for standalone documents. Rinohtype, paired with sphinx offers a modern alternative to latex. In 2019 the second edition of a german book about sphinx was published. It generates it from restructuredtext sources, but can also generate api pages using autodoc extension. Most linux distributions have sphinx in their package repositories. In order to use autodoc, you need to activate it in conf. This is the file that controls the basics of how sphinx runs when you run a build. Change the versionrelease number by setting the version and release variables. Install either python3sphinx python 3 or pythonsphinx python 2 using. If you have followed pep 8 guideline then you can define document structure in sphinx and start building your documentation.
This tool provides an alternative by producing pdf directly using the reportlab library. To ease the process of getting started, sphinx provides a tool, sphinxquickstart, which will generate a documentation source directory and populate it with some defaults. It is neither affiliated with stack overflow nor official pythonsphinx. Pocketsphinxpython wheel packages for 64bit python 2. Sphinx can be installed usinghomebrew4,macports5, or as part of a python distribution such asanaconda6. Usually the package is called python3sphinx, pythonsphinx or sphinx. The ipython directive is a stateful ipython shell for embedding in sphinx documents. Sphinx github webpage tutorials university of tennessee. As far as i understand i need to create latex format with sphinx, and than use texworks to convert latex to pdf. If you wish to install them in the virtual environment of the project youre. A simple tutorial on how to document your python project using. Although i am by no means a python programming and sphinx expert, i decided that it. Be aware that there are at least two other packages with sphinx in their name. If you wish to install sphinx for development purposes, refer to the.