To build documentation, you need have a linux machine and have python2, virtualenv, gmake installed.
You need to create a virtualenv
instead of polute the global python library path
virtualenv .env
You can enter virtualenv by
source .env/bin/activate
You can exit virtualenv by
deactivate
# enter virtualenv
source .env/bin/activate
# install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt
# make clean # make clean to regenerate toctree. Just `make html` may have a cache.
make html
and the html files will be generated to build/html
. You can open build/html/index.html
with your browser to see the documentation.
It is suggested to use reStructuredText
because it is the only official markup language supportted by our documentation generating system, sphinx. markdown
can also be used. However, since the markdown
has so many dialects, there is no guarantee that the markdown
source file can be rendered well.
The reStructuredText
cheatsheet is here.
The sphinx
(our documentation generating system) uses toctree
to organize documentation. toctree
means table of content tree
.
Please see the sphinx documentation, especially toctree
directives