Sorry -- Ignore my last comment.  I see the Scipy version already has 
the covered -- it's just in a different place.  No problem.

Cheers,
Mike

Michael Droettboom wrote:
> 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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