General

Introduction

Call sphinx-quickstart to setup the project.

You can follow this guide to install Sphinx.

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/installation.html

You can follow this guid to get started with Sphinx.

https://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/usage/quickstart.html#

Build Documentation

Python Dependencies

In order to generate the documentation, first create a Python virtual environment using the venv module included in Python like this.

• Create a virtual Python environment in the directory venv like this.

python3 -m venv venv

• Activate the virtual Python environment like this.

source venv/bin/activate

• Install the packages listed in requirements.txt using pip like this.

pip install -r requirements.txt

Running Generator via Make

The top level directory contains a Makefile. Generate HTML output like this.

make html

Generate PDF output like this.

make latexpdf

The output files of the final handbook can be found in the subfolder ./build.

All generated intermediate artifacts and the final output files can be found in the ./build subfolder.

Generate all output like this.

make bundle

Clean up

1. Deactivate the virtual Python environment: deactivate
2. Clean up the build sources: make clean

File System

• build: build directory
• Makefile: build configuration
• readme.md: this file
• source: source directory