Hi,

Thank you both for your replies. I know that the standard is to
make one .rst file per HTML page, but here is some context on why
I would prefer splitting at sections. The manuals I am musing
about converting to Sphinx (from Texinfo with a Python preprocessor
and a fragile and horrifyingly complicated build system) are here:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/web/manuals.html

with the main one being:

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation/index.html

As you can see, there is basically an image after every paragraph
in most sections. I don't have a slow Internet connection or
a poor browser to test, and maybe this is paranoid, but I fear
pages are going to be too slow to load for some people if I
keep the current structure which is generally one file per section,
whereas there is an HTML page for each subsection. As a data point,
you can visit

https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.23/Documentation/notation-big-page

which is the single-page HTML and takes some long seconds to load
for me.

Also, this is a mature piece of software, people are used to this
documentation. I would prefer not to change its feel change too much,
and keeping the current structure would mean making 145 files
for Sphinx whereas there are 25 in Texinfo -- I at least find
the latter more convenient for editing.

So I guess I will have to plunge into the internals of HTML
builders.

Best regards,
Jean

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