Sphinx configuration for technotes#

Documenteer provides centralized configuration for technotes. To use these configurations, you must first install Documenteer with the “technote” extra, see installation guide.

Basic configuration#

To use Documenteer’s configuration in a Sphinx technote project, create a conf.py file:

from documenteer.conf.technote import *

This configuration uses content from the metadata.yaml file, also in the technote project, to set information such as the title and authors.

Extending your technote’s configuration#

You can enhance and customize your technote’s configuration by adding additional lines of Python, after the import statement in your conf.py file. These lines extend, and even replace statements in the configuration provided by Documenteer, which you can see in Configuration source reference, below.

The follow sections point out some common configuration tasks. For more information about Sphinx configuration in general, see the Sphinx documentation.

Adding a package to Intersphinx#

One scenario is adding additional projects to the Intersphinx configuration. For example, to add the Python standard library so that built-in Python APIs can be referenced:

from documenteer.conf.technote import *

intersphinx_mapping["python"] = ("https://docs.python.org/3", None)

To additionally add the LSST Science Pipelines:

from documenteer.conf.technote import *

intersphinx_mapping["python"] = ("https://pipelines.lsst.io", None)

Adding a Sphinx extension#

You can add additional Sphinx extensions to your Sphinx build to make use of custom reStructuredText directives and roles. To add a new extension, append to the extensions list:

from documenteer.conf.technote import *

extensions.extend(["sphinx-click"])

Remember that if an additional package needs to be installed, add that dependency to the technote’s requirements.txt file.

Configuration source reference#

"""Sphinx configuration for LSST technotes.

To use this configuration in a Sphinx technote project, write a conf.py
containing::

    from documenteer.conf.technote import *
"""

# This configuration is broken down into these sections:
#
# #METADATA
#     Configurations based on metadata.yaml
# #EXT
#     Sphinx extensions
# #SPHINX
#     Core Sphinx configurations
# #HTML
#     HTML builder and theme configuration
# #TODO
#     todo extension configuration
# #MATHJAX
#     MathJax extension configuration
# #INTER
#     Intersphinx configuration

# Ordered as they are declared in this module
__all__ = (
    # METADATA
    "project",
    "authors",
    "copyright",
    "exclude_patterns",
    "version",
    "release",
    "today",
    "html_context",
    # EXT
    "extensions",
    # SPHINX
    "source_suffix",
    "source_encoding",
    "master_doc",
    "numfig",
    "numfig_format",
    # HTML
    "templates_path",
    "html_theme",
    "html_theme_path",
    "html_theme_options",
    "html_title",
    "html_short_title",
    "html_logo",
    "html_favicon",
    "html_static_path",
    "html_extra_path",
    "html_last_updated_fmt",
    "html_use_smartypants",
    "html_domain_indices",
    "html_use_index",
    "html_split_index",
    "html_show_sourcelink",
    "html_show_sphinx",
    "html_file_suffix",
    "html_search_language",
    # TODO
    "todo_include_todos",
    # MATHJAX
    "mathjax_path",
    # INTER
    "intersphinx_mapping",
    "intersphinx_timeout",
    "intersphinx_cache_limit",
    # BIBTEX
    "bibtex_bibfiles",
    "bibtex_default_style",
)

import datetime
from pathlib import Path
from typing import Any, Dict, List, Optional, Tuple, Union

import lsst_dd_rtd_theme
import yaml

from documenteer.sphinxconfig.utils import (
    get_project_content_commit_date,
    read_git_branch,
)

# ============================================================================
# #METADATA Configurations based on metadata.yaml
# ============================================================================

_metadata_path = Path("metadata.yaml")
try:
    with _metadata_path.open() as fp:
        _metadata = yaml.safe_load(fp)
except OSError:
    raise OSError(
        "Technotes require a metadata.yaml file for configuration, but one"
        "couldn't be opened. See the technote template at "
        "https://github.com/lsst/templates/tree/master/project_templates/"
        "technote_rst"
    )

project = f'{_metadata["doc_id"]}: {_metadata["doc_title"]}'

# FIXME Ideally we want to use an oxford comma here.
authors = ", ".join(_metadata["authors"])

copyright = _metadata["copyright"]

# List of patterns, relative to source directory, that match files and
# directories to ignore when looking for source files.
exclude_patterns = _metadata.get("exclude_patterns", ["_build", "README.rst"])

try:
    version = read_git_branch()
    _git_branch = version
except Exception as e:
    print("Caught exception: {}".format(e))
    print("Cannot get Git branch information.")
    # defaults
    version = "Unknown"
    _git_branch = "master"

# Override version with metadata.yaml
if "version" in _metadata:
    version = _metadata["version"]

# The edit_url is used for "Edit on GitHub" functionality
_github_url: Optional[str]
_edit_url: Optional[str]
if "github_url" in _metadata:
    _github_url = _metadata["github_url"]
else:
    _github_url = None
if _github_url is not None:
    if not _github_url.endswith("/"):
        _github_url = _github_url + "/"
    _edit_url = f"{_github_url}blob/{_git_branch}/index.rst"
else:
    _github_url = None
    _edit_url = None

# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags.
if "dev_version_suffix" in _metadata:
    release = "{version}{_metadata['dev_version_suffix']}"
else:
    release = version

if "last_revised" in _metadata:
    _date = datetime.datetime.strptime(_metadata["last_revised"], "%Y-%m-%d")
else:
    # obain date from Git commit at most recent content commit since HEAD
    try:
        _date = get_project_content_commit_date(exclusions=exclude_patterns)
    except Exception as e:
        print("Caught exception: {}".format(e))
        print("Cannot get project content git commit date.")
        _date = datetime.datetime.now()
today = _date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")

# This is available to Jinja2 templates
html_context = {
    "author_list": _metadata["authors"],
    "doc_id": _metadata["doc_id"],
    "doc_title": _metadata["doc_title"],
    "last_revised": today,
    "git_branch": _git_branch,
    "github_url": _github_url,
    "edit_url": _edit_url,
}

# ============================================================================
# #EXT Sphinx extensions
# ============================================================================
extensions = [
    "sphinx.ext.intersphinx",
    "sphinx.ext.todo",
    "sphinx.ext.mathjax",
    "sphinx.ext.ifconfig",
    "sphinx-prompt",
    "sphinxcontrib.bibtex",
    "documenteer.sphinxext",
    "documenteer.sphinxext.bibtex",
]

# ============================================================================
# #SPHINX Core Sphinx configurations
# ============================================================================
# The suffix(es) of source filenames.
# You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
source_suffix = ".rst"

# The encoding of source files.
source_encoding = "utf-8"

# The master toctree document.
master_doc = "index"

numfig = True
numfig_format = {
    "figure": "Figure %s",
    "table": "Table %s",
    "code-block": "Listing %s",
}

# ============================================================================
# #HTML HTML builder and theme configuration
# ============================================================================
templates_path = ["_templates"]
html_theme = "lsst_dd_rtd_theme"
html_theme_path = [lsst_dd_rtd_theme.get_html_theme_path()]

# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a
# theme further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
# documentation.
html_theme_options: Dict[str, Any] = {}

# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
# "<project> v<release> documentation".
html_title = project

# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as
# html_title.
html_short_title = _metadata["doc_id"]

# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the
# top of the sidebar.
html_logo = None

# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of
# the docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or
# 32x32 pixels large.
html_favicon = None

# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets)
# here, relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin
# static files, so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin
# "default.css".
if Path("_static").is_dir():
    html_static_path = ["_static"]
else:
    # If a project does not have a _static/ directory, don't list it
    # so that there isn't a warning.
    html_static_path = []

# Add any extra paths that contain custom files (such as robots.txt or
# .htaccess) here, relative to this directory. These files are copied
# directly to the root of the documentation.
html_extra_path: List[str] = []

# If not '', a 'Last updated on:' timestamp is inserted at every page
# bottom, using the given strftime format.
html_last_updated_fmt = "%b %d, %Y"

# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
# typographically correct entities.
html_use_smartypants = True

# If false, no module index is generated.
html_domain_indices = False

# If false, no index is generated.
html_use_index = False

# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
html_split_index = False

# If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
html_show_sourcelink = True

# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
html_show_sphinx = True

# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
html_show_copyright = True

# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
html_file_suffix = ".html"

# Language to be used for generating the HTML full-text search index.
html_search_language = "en"

# ============================================================================
# #TODO todo extension configuration
# ============================================================================
todo_include_todos = True

# ============================================================================
# #MATHJAX MathJax extension configuration
# ============================================================================
# http://docs.mathjax.org/en/v2.7-latest/start.html#using-a-content-delivery-network-cdn
mathjax_path = (
    "https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/mathjax/2.7.5/"
    "MathJax.js?config=default"
)

# ============================================================================
# #INTER Intersphinx configuration
# ============================================================================
intersphinx_mapping: Dict[str, Tuple[Union[str, None]]] = {}
intersphinx_timeout = 10.0  # seconds
intersphinx_cache_limit = 5  # days

# ============================================================================
# #BIBTEX sphinxcontrib-bibtex configuration
# ============================================================================
bibtex_bibfiles = []
if Path("local.bib").exists():
    bibtex_bibfiles.append("local.bib")
for path in Path("lsstbib").glob("*.bib"):
    bibtex_bibfiles.append(str(path))

bibtex_default_style = "lsst_aa"