circuitpython/docs/README.md
Karin Hawley f9ae1ee172 Cleaning up and fixing the docs generation Makefile and README instructions
- moving Makefile to parent folder.  This resolves some of the weird path/build issues
- remove trace references to cpydiff and original file (no longer used anywhere)
- converting SOURCEDIR to a changeable variable, passed through all sphinx-build calls
- adding path to conf.py, in case it moves again
- making `-v` default with VERBOSE
- making `-E` default with FORCE
- creating BASEOPTS to store all the dirs, paths, and settings, passing them to sphinx-build in one long chain, instead of individually
- updating README to use the make command as default.  Also added text explaining some of the customization you can add into a make command
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Adafruit's CircuitPython Documentation
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The latest documentation can be found at:
http://circuitpython.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
The documentation you see there is generated from the files in the whole tree:
https://github.com/adafruit/circuitpython/tree/master
Building the documentation locally
----------------------------------
If you're making changes to the documentation, you should build the
documentation locally so that you can preview your changes.
Install Sphinx, recommonmark, and optionally (for the RTD-styling), sphinx_rtd_theme,
preferably in a virtualenv:
pip install sphinx
pip install recommonmark
pip install sphinx_rtd_theme
In `circuitpython/`, build the docs:
make html
You'll find the index page at `_build/html/index.html`.
### More flexibility
Running `make` by itself will list out the multiple doc generating commands available.
All commands will, by default, run with `-E` (forces a rebuild from scratch of docs) and `-v` (verbosity level 1). This can be customized as desired:
# will turn OFF the force rebuild
make html FORCE=
# will turn OFF the verbosity
make html VERBOSE=
# will turn OFF the force rebuild and make it doubly verbose when running
make html FORCE= VERBOSE="-v -v"
You can also pass other options to sphinx by using `SPHINXOPTS`.
make html SPHINXOPTS="-T"
For more flexibility and customization, take a look at the Makefile for all variables you can pass in and overwrite.