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Sphinx Document Generator

posted May 6, 2015, 9:28 AM by Chris G
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful documentation.

 

  • Output formats: HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for printable PDF versions), ePub, Texinfo, manual pages, plain text
  • Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links for functions, classes, citations, 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 language-specific module indices
  • Code handling: automatic highlighting using the Pygments highlighter
  • Extensions: automatic testing of code snippets, inclusion of docstrings from Python modules (API docs)
  • Contributed extensions: more than 50 extensions most of them installable from PyPI
 
 
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