Sphinx — Sphinx documentation
These sections cover various topics in using and extending Sphinx for various use-cases. They are a comprehensive guide to using Sphinx in many contexts and assume more knowledge of Sphinx.
Getting started — Sphinx documentation
Much of Sphinx’s power comes from the richness of its default plain-text markup format, reStructuredText, along with its significant extensibility capabilities. The goal of this document is to …
Sphinx documentation contents
Sphinx documentation contents The Basics Installing Sphinx PyPI package Conda package OS-specific package manager Linux macOS Windows Docker Installation of the latest development release …
Using Sphinx — Sphinx documentation
This guide serves to demonstrate how one can get started with Sphinx and covers everything from installing Sphinx and configuring your first Sphinx project to using some of the advanced features …
Domains — Sphinx documentation
While this was always possible, it is now much easier to easily support documentation of projects using different programming languages or even ones not supported by the main Sphinx distribution, by …
Build your first project — Sphinx documentation
In this tutorial you will build a simple documentation project using Sphinx, and view it in your browser as HTML. The project will include narrative, handwritten documentation, as well as autogenerated API …
Cross-references — Sphinx documentation
Sphinx supports various cross-referencing roles to create links to other elements in the documentation. In general, writing :role:`target` creates a link to the object called target of the type indicated by role.
Builders — Sphinx documentation
This builder is used for debugging the Sphinx/Docutils “Reader to Transform to Writer” pipeline. It produces compact pretty-printed “pseudo-XML”, files where nesting is indicated by indentation (no …
reStructuredText Primer — Sphinx documentation
reStructuredText is the default plaintext markup language used by Sphinx. This section is a brief introduction to reStructuredText (reST) concepts and syntax, intended to provide authors with …
Changelog — Sphinx documentation
Dec 31, 2025 · Sphinx 1.6 Release 1.6.7 (released Feb 04, 2018) Release 1.6.6 (released Jan 08, 2018) Release 1.6.5 (released Oct 23, 2017) Release 1.6.4 (released Sep 26, 2017) Release 1.6.3 …