22 lines
1.3 KiB
Text
22 lines
1.3 KiB
Text
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. It was originally
|
|
created to translate the new Python documentation, but has now been cleaned
|
|
up in the hope that it will be useful to many other projects.
|
|
|
|
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.
|
|
|
|
Although it is still under constant development, the following features are
|
|
already present, work fine and can be seen "in action" in the Python docs:
|
|
* Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help), plain text and LaTeX,
|
|
for printable PDF versions
|
|
* Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links for
|
|
functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information
|
|
* Hierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic
|
|
links to siblings, parents and children
|
|
* Automatic indices: general index as well as a module index
|
|
* Code handling: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter
|
|
* Various extensions are available, e.g. for automatic testing of snippets
|
|
and inclusion of appropriately formatted docstrings.
|