Update blurb in setup.py and on the index page, link directly to tutorial.rst from index.

doc/_templates/index.html

@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@
   <h1>Welcome</h1>
 
   <div class="quotebar">
-    <p>What users say:</p>
+    <p><em>What users say:</em></p>
     <p>&ldquo;Cheers for a great tool that actually makes programmers <b>want</b>
       to write documentation!&rdquo;</p>
   </div>
@@ -12,28 +12,30 @@
   <p>
     Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
     documentation, written by Georg Brandl and licensed under the BSD license.</p>
-  <p>It was originally created to translate <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/">the
+  <p>It was originally created for <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/">the
-    new Python documentation</a>, and it has excellent support for the documentation
+    new Python documentation</a>, and it has excellent facilities for the
-    of Python projects, but other documents can be written with it too.  Of course,
+    documentation of Python projects, but C/C++ is already supported as well,
-    this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using Sphinx!
+    and it is planned to add special support for other languages as well.  Of
+    course, this site is also created from reStructuredText sources using
+    Sphinx!
   </p>
   <p>
-    It is still under constant development, and the following features are
+    Sphinx is under constant development.  The following features are present,
-    already present, work fine and can be seen &#8220;in action&#8221; in the
+    work fine and can be seen &#8220;in action&#8221; in the Python docs:
-    Python docs:
   </p>
   <ul>
-    <li><b>Output formats:</b> HTML (including Windows HTML Help) and LaTeX, for
+    <li><b>Output formats:</b> HTML (including Windows HTML Help), LaTeX (for
-    printable PDF versions</li>
+      printable PDF versions), manual pages, plain text</li>
     <li><b>Extensive cross-references:</b> semantic markup and automatic links
-    for functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information</li>
+      for functions, classes, citations, 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>
+      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>
+      href="http://pygments.org">Pygments</a> highlighter</li>
     <li><b>Extensions:</b> automatic testing of code snippets, inclusion of
-    docstrings from Python modules, and more</li>
+      docstrings from Python modules (API docs), and more</li>
   </ul>
   <p>
     Sphinx uses <a href="http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html">reStructuredText</a>
@@ -42,39 +44,40 @@
     suite, the <a href="http://docutils.sf.net/">Docutils</a>.
   </p>
 
-  <h2>Examples</h2>
-  <p>
-    The <a href="http://docs.python.org/dev/">Python documentation</a> and
-    this page are different examples of Sphinx in use.
-    You can also download PDF versions of the Sphinx documentation:
-    a <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/sphinx.pdf">version</a> generated from
-    the LaTeX Sphinx produces, and a
-    <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/sphinx-rst2pdf.pdf">version</a> generated by rst2pdf.
-  </p>
-  <p>
-    For examples of how Sphinx source files look, use the &#8220;Show source&#8221;
-    links on all pages of the documentation apart from this welcome page.
-  </p>
-  <p>Links to more documentation generated with Sphinx can be found on the
-    <a href="{{ pathto("examples") }}">Projects using Sphinx</a> page.
-  </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("tutorial") }}">First steps with Sphinx</a><br/>
+         <span class="linkdescr">overview of basic tasks</span></p>
       <p class="biglink"><a class="biglink" href="{{ pathto("contents") }}">Contents</a><br/>
          <span class="linkdescr">for a complete overview</span></p>
+    </td><td width="50%">
       <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>
 
+  <p>
+    You can also download PDF versions of the Sphinx documentation:
+    a <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/sphinx.pdf">version</a> generated from
+    the LaTeX Sphinx produces, and
+    a <a href="http://sphinx.pocoo.org/sphinx-rst2pdf.pdf">version</a> generated
+    by rst2pdf.
+  </p>
+
+  <h2>Examples</h2>
+  <p>Links to documentation generated with Sphinx can be found on the
+    <a href="{{ pathto("examples") }}">Projects using Sphinx</a> page.
+  </p>
+  <p>
+    For examples of how Sphinx source files look, use the &#8220;Show
+    source&#8221; links on all pages of the documentation apart from this
+    welcome page.
+  </p>
+
   <p>You may also be interested in the very nice
     <a href="http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/sampledoc/">tutorial</a> on how to
     create a customized documentation using Sphinx written by the matplotlib

doc/intro.rst

@@ -11,9 +11,9 @@ browsing and navigation.  But from the same source, it can also generate a
 LaTeX file that you can compile into a PDF version of the documents.
 
 The focus is on hand-written documentation, rather than auto-generated API docs.
-Though there is limited support for that kind of docs as well (which is intended
+Though there is support for that kind of docs as well (which is intended to be
-to be freely mixed with hand-written content), if you need pure API docs have a
+freely mixed with hand-written content), if you need pure API docs have a look
-look at `Epydoc <http://epydoc.sf.net/>`_, which also understands reST.
+at `Epydoc <http://epydoc.sf.net/>`_, which also understands reST.
 
 
 Conversion from other systems

setup.py

@@ -11,20 +11,21 @@ import sphinx
 
 long_desc = '''
 Sphinx is a tool that makes it easy to create intelligent and beautiful
-documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of
+documentation for Python projects (or other documents consisting of multiple
-multiple reStructuredText sources), written by Georg Brandl.
+reStructuredText sources), written by Georg Brandl.  It was originally created
-It was originally created to translate the new Python documentation,
+for the new Python documentation, and has excellent facilities for Python
-but has now been cleaned up in the hope that it will be useful to many
+project documentation, but C/C++ is supported as well, and more languages are
-other projects.
+planned.
 
 Sphinx uses reStructuredText as its markup language, and many of its strengths
-come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its
+come from the power and straightforwardness of reStructuredText and its parsing
-parsing and translating suite, the Docutils.
+and translating suite, the Docutils.
 
 Among its features are the following:
 
 * Output formats: HTML (including derivative formats such as HTML Help, Epub
-  and Qt Help), plain text and LaTeX or direct PDF output using rst2pdf
+  and Qt Help), plain text, manual pages and LaTeX or direct PDF output
+  using rst2pdf
 * Extensive cross-references: semantic markup and automatic links
   for functions, classes, glossary terms and similar pieces of information
 * Hierarchical structure: easy definition of a document tree, with automatic