z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc 0.0.8

Use Sphinx to build documentation for zope.org.

Introduction

This buildout recipe aids in the generation of documentation for the zope.org website from restructured text files located in a package. It uses Sphinx to build static html files which can stand alone as a very nice looking website.

Usage Instructions

Suppose you have a package called z3c.form. In the setup.py for z3c.form it is recommended that you add a docs section to the extras_require argument. It should look something like this:

extras_require = dict(
    docs = ['Sphinx',
            'z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc']
    )

Then in the buildout.cfg file for your package, add a docs section that looks like this:

[docs]
recipe = z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc
eggs = z3c.form [docs]

Be sure to include it in the parts, as in:

[buildout]
develop = .
parts = docs

Now you can rerun buildout. The recipe will have created an executable script in the bin directory called docs.

This script will run the Sphinx documentation generation tool on your source code. By default, it expects there to be an index.txt file in the source code. In this case, index.txt would have to be in src/z3c/form/index.txt. This file can be a standard restructured text file, and can use all the sphinx goodies. For example, your index.txt might look like this:

Welcome to z3c.form's documentation!
====================================

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   README

Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`

You should read the documentation for Sphinx to learn more about it. It is available here: http://sphinx.pocoo.org/

Now you should be able to run the docs script:

$ ./bin/docs

This generates all the documentation for you and placed it in the parts directory. You can then open it up in firefox and take a look:

$ firefox parts/docs/z3c.form/build/index.html

Additional Options

By default, this recipe generates documentation that looks like the new zope website ( http://new.zope.org ) by ovveriding the default layout template and css file used by sphinx. You can modify this behavior with options in your buildout configuration.

Give me back Sphinx’s default look!

To get back the default look of sphinx, you could use a configuration like this:

[docs]
recipe = z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc
eggs = z3c.form [docs]
default.css =
layout.html =

I want my own custom look

You can also specify your own layout template and css like so:

[docs]
recipe = z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc
eggs = z3c.form [docs]
default.css = http://my.own.website.com/mystyles/some-theme.css
layout.html = /path/to/layout.html

Note that you can either specify a path on the local file system or a url to an external css file.

Use sphinx extension modules

Sphinx provides a set of extensions, for example sphinx.ext.autodoc or sphinx.ext.doctest. To use such an extension change your configuration like:

[docs]
recipe = z3c.recipe.sphinxdoc
eggs = z3c.form [docs]
extensions = sphinx.ext.autodoc sphinx.ext.doctest

CHANGES

0.0.8 (2009-05-01)

• Feature: Added new option doc-eggs which specifies the list of eggs for which to create documentation explicitely.

• Feature: Changed building behavior so that the documentation for each package is built in its own sub-directory.

• Feature: Added new option extensions which takes a whitespace separated list of sphinx extension modules. This extensions can be used to build the documentation.

0.0.7 (2009-02-15)

• Bug: fix python 2.4 support

• Bug: fix broken srcDir path generation for windows

0.0.6 (2009-01-19)

• Feature: Allow you to specify a url or local file path to your own default.css and layout.html files.

0.0.5 (2008-05-11)

• Initial release.