The idea is to allow to define a kind of "macros" for repeatitive text,
so all occurrances can be updated in one place. Unfortunately, RST doesn't
support replacements with arguments, which limits usefulness of them and
should be taken into account.
This causes `symbol` syntax to be equivalent to :any:`symbol`, which is
in turn the easiest way to cross-reference an arbitrary symbol in the
docs:
http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/markup/inline.html#role-any
:any: requires at least Sphinx 1.3 (for reference, Ubuntu 16.03 ships
with 1.3.6, the latest 1.6.3).
Any many of our docs, `symbol` is misused to specify arguments to
functions, etc. Refactoring that is in progress. (CODECONVENTIONS
already specify proper syntax for both arguments and xrefs, based
on CPython conventions).
Based on the following statistics:
$ git log docs |grep Author | sort | uniq -c | sort -n -r
175 Author: Paul Sokolovsky
135 Author: Damien George
31 Author: Daniel Campora
26 Author: danicampora
14 Author: Peter Hinch
git blame stats script from http://stackoverflow.com/a/13687302/496009:
$ sh git-authors docs
9977 author Damien George
2679 author Paul Sokolovsky
1699 author Daniel Campora
1580 author danicampora
1286 author Peter Hinch
282 author Shuning Bian
249 author Dave Hylands
Total lines per this script: 18417, my contribution is 14.5%.
For modindex_exclude extension, per-port module excludes are also added.
With these changes, it's possible to generate docs for a particular port
devoid of any superfluous and unrelated content, including in indexes and
full-text search - with small caveat: when generating PDF docs after HTML,
or vice-versa cached internal doctree representation (build/*/doctrees/)
must be removed first.
The sphinx_rtd_theme is used by ReadTheDocs to render a pretty looking
documentation. If you have this theme installed locally then your
locally-compiled docs will look exactly like the published
documentation. Otherwise it falls back to the default theme.
