To customize a certain page in my documentation, I'd like to add a special class or id to the body of the page.
I've tried using
:name: amazing-unique-id;
at the top of my index.rst file, but this doesn't work. Any idea how I could achieve that?
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I'm trying to build documentation for a Python project using Sphinx (using autodoc with the readthedocs theme). I want to override the text in the table of contents side bar. Following this example, I can achieve this by modifying the toctree in index.rst
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
This is an annotation <thisisthenameoftherstfile>
In the table of contents side-bar in HTML, this now renders as
This is an annotation
rather than
thisisthenameoftherstfile
So far so good; Sadly, I can't seem to style text this way. For example
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
**modulename**: *Routines for thing* <thisisthenameoftherstfile>
<b>modulename</b>: <i>Routines for thing<i> <thisisthenameoftherstfile>
Renders in the HTML, sadly, as
**modulename**: *Routines for thing*
<b>modulename</b>: <i>Routines for thing</i>
I'm a little surprised that <b></b> etc render verbatim, as I thought you could only do this using the <pre> tag. I've tried inspecting the CSS in the browser and I can't figure out what property is causing these tags to be ignored / rendered as text rather than interpreted as text styling. Evidently markdown styling isn't interpreted either.
Is there any way to fix this? I'd like to see things like
Module named_module: I do this thing
In the side bar, where the content of the annotation text is bespoke to each table-of-contents entry, and defined entirely at the top-level index.rst file only (so, not part of the information in the lower-level .rst files i.e. thisisthenameoftherstfile.rst in this example.)
Using Sphinx documentation generator (with pdflatex), I am creating pdf files and have added links to some of the internal files using label and ref markups like this:
In the called file (xyz.rst)
.. _called-file-label:
In the calling file(abc.rst) I am adding a reference to the label like this:
:ref:`Get Info <called-file-label>`
With the above arrangement, I am able to generate pdf file using pdflatex. However, I find that the called file is also added to the pdf file's bookmarks section which feels somewhat clumsy.
I understand I need to add both the source files in the .. toctree:: section for the hyperlink to appear in the pdf file (I have added the called file using :hidden: directive to prevent the file from showing up in the html document's ToC tree).
My question is: What do I need to do in order that the called file (xyz.rst) does not figure in the bookmarks section of the generated pdf file?
If after .. _called-file-label: label is section:
.. _called-file-label:
Foo Bar
======
Then, the section title "Foo Bar" will always become a bookmark in PDF.
The :hidden: option of toctree is not to hide documents, but to don't show ToC on the place with toctree. I.e. it is to hide toctree, not its documents. Documents in hidden toctree will still be visible in HTML sidebars, PDF bookmarks, etc.
It looks like you need rubric directive. Rubric is like a section, but doesn't make up the table of contents.
I have just recently (yesterday) started using sphinx and read the docs for my project.
Till now I am happy with the Html documentation but the pdf version includes all the articles That appear in the index within the Contents heading. And the Documents orignal content/index is simply comprised of two links.
Please help.
The documentation is at http://todx.rtfd.io and the pdf is here.
When generating the PDF, Sphinx is always adding the content that is referenced via a .. toctree:: directive exactly where the directive is placed.
In contrast, when generating HTML, Sphinx is placing the content after the file that contains the toctree.
In this aspect, PDF generation and HTML generation are simply inconsistent.
Thus, you should place all content of the index page before the table of contents.
In case you want to provide an overview of the most important sections inline, you can use a list of references. Then, you might want to hide the toctree using the hidden property, for example like this:
Contents
--------
- :ref:`quickstart`
- :ref:`userguide`
Features
--------
- Fast
- Simple
- Inituitive
- Easy to Use
- Offline
- Open Source
.. toctree::
:hidden:
quickstart
userguide
We are considering using Sphinx where I work and it appears to do everything we need. However, I am having issues getting it to match the required corporate template, which requires there to be some front matter pages inserted between the title page and table of contents.
If text is text is placed above the master table of contents in the .rst file, then it is placed above the TOC in the HTML output, but it is moved to below the TOC in the pdf output. I've also tried adding a hidden toc, but that didn't work either. The content also gets placed after the non-hidden toc.
.. toctree::
:hidden:
frontmatter
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
contents_of_document
I know this has to be possible since people have published books using this tool, but I can't figure out how to do it.
I've tried this with sphinx 1.4.0 and 1.4.1. Is this something I need to add a latex sty or cls file to make it work? I would prefer not to since we would like to use both the HTML and PDF outputs.
Thanks
It looks like I need to RTFM. It is in chapter 10 to of the sphinx manual:
’tableofcontents’ “tableofcontents” call, default ’\tableofcontents’. Override if you want to generate a different table of contents or put content between the title page and the TOC.
So it order to do this, you need to learn some LaTeX as you will have to manually (or programmatically) write the from matter separately from the reST documentation.
I'm generating html documentation in Sphinx.
How do I modify the sidebar for each of the html pages in my document so that they include the toctree? By default the toctree only seems to display in the master_doc page, and only in the main area instead of the sidebar.
Is there an easy way to do this? I'll be using readthedocs to host the generated documentation, so I would prefer to avoid the use of any third-party plugins, unless they are also available on readthedocs.
You can customize your html sidebar in conf.py.
The default html sidebar consists of 4 templates:
['localtoc.html', 'relations.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'searchbox.html']
In conf.py you could change localtoc.html to globaltoc.html like this:
html_sidebars = { '**': ['globaltoc.html', 'relations.html', 'sourcelink.html', 'searchbox.html'] }
Since this in the end this will be used in HTML files, this should work on ReadTheDocs.
Including the 'globaltoc.html' has a drawback in that it doesn't show both the global and local toc for the page you're viewing.
It appears that others were irked about this limitation and resulted in the subsequent development of an extension to support a full toc in the sidebar, checkout: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinxcontrib-fulltoc
Nothing will appear in the "Navigation" section of the default Sphinx sidebar until you add the names of files that you want to scan for section headings to the toctree:: directive in your .rst file.
For example, if you want all the headings of your index.rst file to appear in the Navigation pane, write index (without the extension) in the toctree:: list like so:
My Level 1 Heading
==================
Glorious content.
My Level 2 Heading
------------------
More content
.. toctree::
:maxdepth: 2
:caption: Contents:
index
The crucial bit is adding index right there at the end. If you're like me, you start your projects with the auto-generated template from sphinx-quickstart, which (at time of writing) populates your .rst files with EMPTY toctrees.