From 4eec036ab3dea211af209d1bd0bdac8955269aaa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Luke Plant Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 17:44:26 +0000 Subject: Added a README for building offline HTML docs. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@14478 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/README | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) create mode 100644 docs/README (limited to 'docs') diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..77fb3f0ddb --- /dev/null +++ b/docs/README @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +The documentation in this tree is in plain text files and can be viewed using +any text file viewer. + +Technically speaking, it uses ReST (reStructuredText) [1], and the Sphinx +documentation system [2]. This allows it to be built into other forms for +easier viewing and browsing. + +To create an HTML version of the docs on a Unix machine (Linux or Mac): + +* Install Sphinx (using ``easy_install Sphinx`` or some other method) + +* In this docs/ directory, type ``make html`` at a shell prompt. + +The documentation in _build/html/index.html can then be viewed in a web browser. + +[1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html +[2] http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ -- cgit v1.3