Re: [sphinx-users] Re: master_doc variable doesn't influence html/latex builders

2017-09-18 Thread Dessus Ph.
dear Peter, Thx for this comprehensive description. I've tried your first advice and its surprisingly doable ; and since I've a bulk of docs to manage separately, no need to use specific scripts. I've hard linked all the rst files, but not the conf.py, the index (to do specific tweaks), and all

Re: [sphinx-users] Re: master_doc variable doesn't influence html/latex builders

2017-09-05 Thread Peter Burdine
Creating the links and scripting it is much easier with a Cygwin env because it has all of the utilities built in (find, make, etc). If we had to create our management scripts using ps/bat, I would probably just give up. To expand on what we do, we actually create a file with a listing of all the

[sphinx-users] Re: master_doc variable doesn't influence html/latex builders

2017-09-01 Thread Dessus Ph.
thx Peter, 1. Sphinx can run pretty well on Windows, AFAIK. Follow the install instructions. 2. Good idea; a bit tricky, but I'll try it. No more elegant solution ? ;-) best, ph Le vendredi 1 septembre 2017 16:39:35 UTC+2, Peter Burdine a écrit : > > We do the same thing here, produce a bunch of

[sphinx-users] Re: master_doc variable doesn't influence html/latex builders

2017-09-01 Thread Peter Burdine
We do the same thing here, produce a bunch of documents from a common set of files. We are on Windows, which makes it a little difficult, so we run Sphinx from a Cygwin environment. Then we create individual document directories. To get the common content we create links from within Cygwin t