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sphinx-markdown-builder
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A Sphinx extension to add markdown generation support.
pip3 install sphinx-markdown-builder==0.6.9
Add the extension to your conf.py file:
extensions = [
...,
"sphinx_markdown_builder",
...,
]
Build markdown files with sphinx-build command
sphinx-build -M markdown ./docs ./build
You can add the following configurations to your conf.py file:
markdown_anchor_sections/markdown_anchor_signatures: If set to True,
then anchors will be added before each section/function/class signature.
This allows references to a specific anchor in the document.markdown_docinfo: Adds metadata to the top of each document containing author, copyright, and version.markdown_http_base: If set, all references will link to this prefix addressmarkdown_uri_doc_suffix: If set, all references will link to documents with this suffix.markdown_file_suffix: Sets the file extension for generated markdown files (default: .md).markdown_bullet: Sets the bullet marker.markdown_flavor: If set to github, output will suit GitHub's flavor of Markdown.For example, if your conf.py file have the following configuration:
markdown_http_base = "https://your-domain.com/docs"
markdown_uri_doc_suffix = ".html"
markdown_bullet = "*"
Then a reference to your-doc-name#your-header will be substituted with https://your-domain.com/docs/your-doc-name.html#your-header.
See the code contribution guidelines for more information.
This project forked from clayrisser/sphinx-markdown-builder, which was developed by Clay Risser under the MIT license.
The original implementation was based on doctree2md by Matthew Brett under the BSD-2 license.
FAQs
A Sphinx extension to add markdown generation support.
We found that sphinx-markdown-builder demonstrated a healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released less than a year ago. It has 2 open source maintainers collaborating on the project.
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