I would like this feature too... is there a way to accomplish it? 
See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/38836458/annotated-sphinx-toctree

On Thursday, April 24, 2014 at 6:38:48 AM UTC-7, Neil K wrote:
>
> I have had a good hunt around looking for the ability to define per file 
> an 'abstract' / 'summary' that I can then have displayed in a toctree but 
> have come up blank. What I am looking for is something akin to the 
> autosummary/docstring approach but not quite. Does this exist? Have I 
> missed it somewhere? Maybe I will have to create my own directive but 
> thought I would ask first.
>
> To be clear about what I am looking for I have a outlined an example below.
>
> Lets say I have a file called white_paper_001.rst that looks like this - 
> they part being the abstract is defined so that it can be used:
>
> ===============
> White Paper 001
> ===============
>
> *.. abstract::*
>    This white paper explains the relationship between X and Y.
>
> Body text will go here ....
>
>
> In my index.rst I would have something like this -  identifying that I 
> want the abstract included in the listing in much the same way as the 
> :titlesonly:option tells sphinx to display the titles:
>
> ============
> White Papers
> ============
>
> Contents:
>
> .. toctree::
>     :glob:
>
>         *:abstract:*
>
>
>     white_papers/*
>
>
> Ideally I would then get something like the following - the key here is 
> that the abstract is sourced from the file itself rather than keyed in 
> independently on index.rst:
>
> *White Papers*
>
>  
>
> *White Paper 001*
>
> This white paper explains the relationship between X and Y. 
>
>   
>
> *White Paper 002*
>
> This white paper explains the key concepts around ABC. 
>
>

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