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{% extends "layout.html" %}
{% set title = 'Overview' %}
{% block body %}
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<!-- <p style="background-color: #fcc; font-size: large; border: 1px solid #f00; padding: 10px;">
<b>Attention:</b> this is a preview. Sphinx is not released yet on PyPI,
and the contents of this documentation are subject to change.
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<h1>Welcome</h1>
<p>
Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
documentation for Python projects, written by Georg Brandl. It was
originally created to translate <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/">the
new Python documentation</a>, but has now been cleaned up in the hope that
it will be useful to many other projects. (Of course, this site is also
created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx!)
</p>
<p>
Although it is still under constant development, the following features are
already present, work fine and can be seen &#8220;in action&#8221; in the
Python docs:
</p>
<ul>
<li><b>Output formats:</b> HTML (including Windows HTML Help) and LaTeX, for
printable PDF versions</li>
<li><b>Extensive cross-references:</b> semantic markup and automatic links
for functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information</li>
<li><b>Hierarchical structure:</b> easy definition of a document tree, with
automatic links to siblings, parents and children</li>
<li><b>Automatic indices:</b> general index as well as a module index</li>
<li><b>Code handling:</b> automatic highlighting using the <a
href="http://pygments.org">Pygments</a> highlighter</li>
</ul>
<p>
Sphinx uses <a href="http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a>
as its markup language, and many of its strengths come from the power and
straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its parsing and translating
suite, the <a href="http://docutils.sf.net/">Docutils</a>.
</p>
<h2>Documentation</h2>
<table class="contentstable" align="center" style="margin-left: 30px"><tr>
<td width="50%">
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("contents") }}">Contents</a><br>
<span class="linkdescr">for a complete overview</span></p>
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("search") }}">Search page</a><br>
<span class="linkdescr">search the documentation</span></p>
</td><td width="50%">
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("genindex") }}">General Index</a><br>
<span class="linkdescr">all functions, classes, terms</span></p>
<p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("modindex") }}">Module Index</a><br>
<span class="linkdescr">quick access to all documented modules</span></p>
</td></tr>
</table>
<h2>Get Sphinx</h2>
<p>
Sphinx is available as an <a
href="http://peak.telecommunity.com/DevCenter/EasyInstall">easy-install</a>able
package on the <a href="http://pypi.python.org/pypi/Sphinx">Python Package
Index</a>.
</p>
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{% endblock %}