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<h1 class="lined-header"><span>Sphinx documentation</span></h1>

<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk includes targets for running the
<a href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/">Sphinx documentation generator</a>, which can produce
documentation in various formats, like HTML, man pages, Texinfo, LaTeX, and
others.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_writing_sphinx_documentation">Writing Sphinx documentation</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Sphinx generates documentation from a set of
<a href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/rest.html">reST</a> documents. There is
a <a href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/tutorial.html">quick start guide</a> on
Sphinx' website. For Erlang.mk, we&#8217;ll set up a minimal environment instead.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_basic_setup">Basic setup</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>By default, Erlang.mk expects Sphinx documentation to be placed in the <em>doc</em>
directory, with <em>doc/conf.py</em> config file in particular. The file contains
information about the project, among the other things.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>A minimal <em>doc/conf.py</em> will look similar to this:</p></div>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>It points to a <em>doc/index.rst</em> document. A simple skeleton includes a table of
contents for all documentation, and links to generated index of terms and
a search page:</p></div>
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<pre><code>My Project
==========

Contents:

.. toctree::
   :maxdepth: 2

   other_page

Indices and tables
==================

* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`search`</code></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The skeleton above has a link to one other page, <em>doc/other_page.rst</em>. Simple
header with some text will do for now:</p></div>
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<pre><code>Other Page
==========

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet...</code></pre>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>The files above are enough to build HTML documentation to the <em>html</em> directory.</p></div>
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<div class="content"><!-- Generator: GNU source-highlight
by Lorenzo Bettini
http://www.lorenzobettini.it
http://www.gnu.org/software/src-highlite -->
<pre><tt>$ make docs     <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #9A1900"># all the docs, including EDoc and AsciiDoc if applicable</span></span>
$ make sphinx   <span style="font-style: italic"><span style="color: #9A1900"># Sphinx docs specifically</span></span></tt></pre></div></div>
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<h2 id="_erlang_mk_configuration">Erlang.mk configuration</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>Erlang.mk defaults to the following configuration:</p></div>
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http://www.lorenzobettini.it
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<pre><tt><span style="color: #009900">SPHINX_FORMATS =</span> html
<span style="color: #009900">SPHINX_SOURCE =</span> doc</tt></pre></div></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>To change the location of Sphinx sources, you need to set the <code>$(SPHINX_SOURCE)</code>
variable. The <em>conf.py</em> file should also be placed in that directory, unless you
specify <code>$(SPHINX_CONFDIR)</code>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The variable <code>$(SPHINX_OPTS)</code> allows to provide options to <code>sphinx-build</code>, which
is particularly useful for <code>-D name=value</code> options. You can even forego
<em>doc/conf.py</em> file, using <code>-D name=value</code> in combination with the <code>-C</code> option,
though in this case you will need to manually call <code>make sphinx</code> or add the
<code>sphinx</code> target to dependencies of <code>docs</code>.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>The <code>$(SPHINX_FORMATS)</code> variable lists formats to generate. By default only HTML
is generated, but it can also build man pages or LaTeX documents which can later
be converted to PDF. See the
<a href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/invocation.html#cmdoption-sphinx-build-b">description of the <code>-b</code> option</a>
for <code>sphinx-build</code> for a list of known formats.</p></div>
<div class="paragraph"><p>Formats are by default generated to a directory called after the format
(<em>html</em> for HTML, <em>man</em> for man pages, and so on). To change this behaviour
for a specific format, you can set the <code>$(sphinx_$(format)_output)</code> variable, e.g.
<code>$(sphinx_html_output)</code> for <em>html</em> or <code>$(sphinx_man_output)</code> for <em>man</em>.
There are also <code>$(sphinx_$(format)_opts)</code> variables for setting <code>sphinx-build</code>
options for a single format only.</p></div>
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<h2 id="_generating_man_pages">Generating man pages</h2>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>To generate man pages, you need to include <code>man</code> in <code>$(SPHINX_FORMATS)</code> in
your Makefile and define the <code>man_pages</code> option in <em>doc/conf.py</em>:</p></div>
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<div class="paragraph"><p>As the
<a href="http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/config.html#options-for-manual-page-output">Sphinx documentation</a>
indicates, the structure is:</p></div>
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<p>
<code>doc_name</code> is the path to the man page&#8217;s source (relative <code>$(SPHINX_SOURCE)</code>),
  without the <em>.rst</em> suffix
</p>
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<code>page_name</code> is the name of the resulting man page, which will be used as a base
  for the output file name and will be included in the generated man page
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<code>Manpage Title</code> is a short, one-line description, which will be included in
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<code>Page Author</code> (or more of them) will be included in the autogenerated <code>AUTHOR</code>
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<code>1</code> is the man page section number
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<div class="paragraph"><p>With the above configuration (and Erlang.mk&#8217;s defaults), <em>doc/doc_name.rst</em> will
be used to generate <em>man/page_name.1</em>.</p></div>
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