README.md

Documenting nbconvert

Documentation for nbconvert is hosted on ReadTheDocs.

Build Documentation locally

1. Change directory to documentation root:

    $ cd docs
   

2. Create conda env (and install relevant dependencies):

    $ conda env create -f environment.yml
   

3. Activate the newly built conda environment nbconvert_docs

    $ source activate nbconvert_docs
   

4. Create an editable install for nbconvert with doc dependencies using

    $ pip install -e '..[docs]'
   

   or if you want, cd .. and pip install . -e. But then you will need to cd docs before continuing to the next step.

5. Build documentation using Makefile for Linux and OS X:

    $ make html
   

   or on Windows:

    $ make.bat html
   

6. Display the documentation locally by navigating to build/html/index.html in your browser:

   Or alternatively you may run a local server to display the docs. In Python 3:

    $ python -m http.server 8000
   

   In your browser, go to http://localhost:8000.

Developing Documentation

Helpful files and directories

• conf.py - Sphinx build configuration file
• source directory - source for documentation
• source/api directory - source files for generated API documentation
• autogen_config.py - Generates configuration of ipynb source files to rst
• index.rst - Main landing page of the Sphinx documentation