Documentation Build Instructions

The documentation for the Celadon Project should be written in :abbr:`ReStructuredText (ReST)` AKA .rst, which makes it easy to build parsable, command-line readable, indexed, and search-friendly documentation and APIs with Sphinx.

Requirements

To build documentation with Sphinx, ensure your system has these prerequisites:

• GNU make
• Python
• PIP
• Sphinx

The instructions for installing these varies according to OS. On a basic out- of-the-box Ubuntu*-like OS (which usually has Python* installed by default), check your python version using commands similar to the following:

$ sudo apt-get install python-pip
$ sudo pip install -U sphinx sphinx-autobuild

$ python -c 'print __import__("sphinx").__version__'
  1.3.1

Cloning the documentation repository

After confirming that Sphinx and Python are installed, clone the Gitlab repository to your local machine:

$ git clone https://github.com/projectceladon/projectceladon-documentation.git

Run make

First, :command:`cd` to the :file:`source/` directory that contains your .rst files. Then run :command:`make html` or the doc format of your choice.

$ make html
>
sphinx-build -b html -d _build/doctrees   . _build/html
Running Sphinx v1.3.1
making output directory...
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build succeeded, 0 warnings.

Build finished. The HTML pages are in _build/html.

Open one of the .html pages in a web browser to view the rendered documentation.

For tips on how to contribute documentation formatted in the .rst style needed to integrate beautifully on the Celadon website, please see

reStructuredText Primer.