Pauli Virtanen wrote:
> Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:26:40 -0500, Michael Droettboom wrote:
> [clip]
>   
>> Anyway, the current version in matplotlib handles files in a way that
>> behaves well with Sphinx (which I see is a TODO list item in the numpy
>> version).  It also uses the Sphinx extension API rather than the old and
>> brittle way of defining directives etc.  So those things will need to be
>> merged with the other changes made on the Numpy side.
>>     
>
> Ok, I'll try to get these merged now, starting from the Scipy
> version.
>
> What was new:
>
> * Detect doctest format automatically.
> * Matplotlib rcparameters settable in conf.py
> * :include-source: also as conf.py option
> * Preamble code in conf.py, to run in every plot
> * Used Sphinx API to register the directive.
> * Slightly modified template for the inserted RST, to make multiple
>   output figures floatable side-by-side in HTML.
>
> So I think what needs to be merged is the output file handling,
> and to check that the output is similar as previously for the matplotlib
> docs.
>   
Those all look like great features to have.

Thanks for volunteering to do the merge.

I would also add that it should be ported to the Sphinx extension API 
(basically the stuff in the last section in the file).  It's a lot 
easier now, and should be more stable between docutils/Sphinx versions:

http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ext/appapi.html

Cheers,
Mike

-- 
Michael Droettboom
Science Software Branch
Operations and Engineering Division
Space Telescope Science Institute
Operated by AURA for NASA


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