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======== Sphinx ======== .. image:: https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/sphinx.svg :target: https://pypi.org/project/Sphinx/ :alt: Package on PyPI .. image:: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/actions/workflows/main.yml/badge.svg :target: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/actions/workflows/main.yml :alt: Build Status .. image:: https://readthedocs.org/projects/sphinx/badge/?version=master :target: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/ :alt: Documentation Status .. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/License-BSD%202--Clause-blue.svg :target: https://opensource.org/licenses/BSD-2-Clause :alt: BSD 2 Clause **Sphinx makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation.** 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. Features ======== * **Output formats**: HTML, PDF, plain text, EPUB, TeX, manual pages, and more * **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 highlighting**: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter * **Templating**: Flexible HTML output using the Jinja 2 templating engine * **Extension ecosystem**: Many extensions are available, for example for automatic function documentation or working with Jupyter notebooks. * **Language Support**: Python, C, C++, JavaScript, mathematics, and many other languages through extensions. For more information, refer to `the documentation`_. Installation ============ The following command installs Sphinx from the `Python Package Index`_. You will need a working installation of Python and pip. .. code-block:: shell pip install -U sphinx Contributing ============ We appreciate all contributions! Refer to `the contributors guide`_ for information. .. _the documentation: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/ .. _the contributors guide: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/internals/contributing.html .. _Python Package Index: https://pypi.org/project/Sphinx/