miller/docs

Miller Sphinx docs

Why use Sphinx

• Connects to readthedocs.com so people can get their docmods onto the web instead of the self-hosted https://johnkerl.org/miller/doc. Thanks to @pabloab for the great advice!
• More standard look and feel -- lots of people use readthedocs for other things so this should feel familiar
• We get a Search feature for free

Contributing

• You need pip install sphinx (or pip3 install sphinx)
• The docs include lots of live code examples which will be invoked using mlr which must be somewhere in your $PATH
• Clone https://github.com/johnkerl/miller and cd into docs/ within your clone
• Editing loop:
  • Edit *.rst.in
  • Run make html
  • Either open _build/html/index.html (MacOS) or point your browser to file:///path/to/your/clone/of/miller/docs/_build/html/index.html
• Submitting:
  • git add your modified files, git push, and submit a PR at https://github.com/johnkerl/miller
• A nice markup reference: https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/1.8/usage/restructuredtext/basics.html

Notes

• CSS:
  • I used the Sphinx Classic theme which I like a lot except the colors -- it's a blue scheme and Miller has never been blue.
  • Files are in docs/_static/*.css where I marked mods with /* CHANGE ME */.
  • If you modify the CSS you must run make clean html (not just make html) then reload in your browser.
• Live code:
  • I didn't find a way to include non-Python live-code examples within Sphinx so I adapted the pre-Sphinx Miller-doc strategy which is to have a generator script read a template file (here, foo.rst.in), run the marked lines, and generate the output file (foo.rst).
  • Edit the *.rst.in files, not *.rst directly.
  • Within the *.rst.in files are lines like POKI_RUN_COMMAND. These will be run, and their output included, by make html which calls the genrst script for you.
• readthedocs:
  • https://readthedocs.org/
  • https://readthedocs.org/projects/miller/
  • https://readthedocs.org/projects/miller/builds/
  • https://miller.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

To do

• Make a better genrst script
• Are rtd builds really getting auto-triggred on miller-repo commits?