[Pulp-list] Sphinx resources

Jay Dobies jason.dobies at redhat.com
Fri Nov 4 20:07:08 UTC 2011


This is awesome, thanks Nick.

On 11/03/2011 09:20 PM, Nick Coghlan wrote:
> I know the idea of using Sphinx for documentation is being kicked
> around, so I figured I'd offer some additional pointers to resources:
>
> Sphinx's own tutorial:
> http://sphinx.pocoo.org/tutorial.html
>
> The RTFD (hosting site for Sphinx docs) getting started guide:
> http://readthedocs.org/docs/read-the-docs/en/latest/getting_started.html
>
> The ReStructured Text primer from the Python docs*:
> http://docs.python.org/documenting/rest.html
>
> And the Sphinx specific additions (many of these are from Sphinx itself,
> a few are CPython specific additions):
> http://docs.python.org/documenting/markup.html
>
> *As mentioned on the site, the Sphinx project actually started when
> Georg wrote it to replace the dodgy old LaTex-based toolchain. The
> contrast between http://www.docs.python.org/2.5 and
> http://www.docs.python.org/2.6 is stark enough, but the difference is
> even greater when you compare the
> readability of the documentation files themselves:
> Sphinx: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/default/Doc/whatsnew/2.5.rst
> LaTeX: http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/2.5/Doc/whatsnew/whatsnew25.tex
>
> Cheers,
> Nick.
>


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