Documentation#
The documentation you are viewing can be made locally in a variety of formats.
To make HTML documentation, change directory to docs
, and do
make html
After a few minutes, HTML documentation will be saved to docs/build/html
with the index page being index.html
. You can use Python to serve it
locally. In the folder docs/build/html
, run
python -m http.server
A list of supported formats is as follows. Note that some format require additional compiler or library
html to make standalone HTML files
dirhtml to make HTML files named index.html in directories
singlehtml to make a single large HTML file
pickle to make pickle files
json to make JSON files
htmlhelp to make HTML files and an HTML help project
qthelp to make HTML files and a qthelp project
devhelp to make HTML files and a Devhelp project
epub to make an epub
latex to make LaTeX files, you can set PAPER=a4 or PAPER=letter
latexpdf to make LaTeX and PDF files (default pdflatex)
latexpdfja to make LaTeX files and run them through platex/dvipdfmx
text to make text files
man to make manual pages
texinfo to make Texinfo files
info to make Texinfo files and run them through makeinfo
gettext to make PO message catalogs
changes to make an overview of all changed/added/deprecated items
xml to make Docutils-native XML files
pseudoxml to make pseudoxml-XML files for display purposes
linkcheck to check all external links for integrity
doctest to run all doctests embedded in the documentation (if enabled)
coverage to run coverage check of the documentation (if enabled)