On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 6:31 PM, Chris h <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Greets:
>
> just installed the thing and trying to learn the basics. Did a quick search
> on
> line in the archives and came across a recent post on a basic beginners
> howto. So a few questions if I may. Here is what I did and where I ran into
> some problems. The installation and setup/config all went fine. No issues
> there.
>
> 1. created a bunch of empty docs via touch doc2.rst in the root directory.
> 2. edited the index.rst by hand and added all the docs (approx 20)
> 3. then ran .. toctree:: from the command line and bash barfs as its not
> recognized "..:" as a command.
>
> So was wondering what Im doing wrong.


The link you reference is showing the text to put in the file, after the "vi
...."  command  (that's not for your bash command line!)

Empty docs are not very interesting - better to put _some_ text in one or
two documents first, then look at the Sphinx documents - pay attention to
the "show source" link -- that's the source for "This Page"


> This sure looks like a very capable and
> easy to use documentation system once I understand the basics. Thanks for
> any
> help you can send this way.
>
> ref:
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-dev/browse_thread/thread/8f1c4c521f04299c?hl=en&pli=1
>
> tks
> --
> /ch
>
> >
>

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