Sphinx cheat sheet

Here is a quick and dirty cheat sheet for some common stuff you want to do in sphinx and ReST. You can see the literal source for this file at cheatsheet -literal.

Formatting text

You use inline markup to make text italics, bold, or monotype.

You can represent code blocks fairly easily:

import numpy as np
x = np.random.rand(12)

Or literally include code:

from pylab import *
from matplotlib.patches import Ellipse

delta = 45.0 # degrees

angles = arange(0, 360+delta, delta)
ells = [Ellipse((1, 1), 4, 2, a) for a in angles]

a = subplot(111, aspect='equal')

for e in ells:
    e.set_clip_box(a.bbox)
    e.set_alpha(0.1)
    a.add_artist(e)

xlim(-2, 4)
ylim(-1, 3)

show()

Making a list

It is easy to make lists in rest

Bullet points

This is a subsection making bullet points

• point A
• point B
• point C

Enumerated points

This is a subsection making numbered points

1. point A
2. point B
3. point C

Making a table

This shows you how to make a table – if you only want to make a list see Making a list.

Name	Age
John D Hunter	40
Cast of Thousands	41
And Still More	42

Making links

It is easy to make a link to yahoo or to some section inside this document (see Making a table) or another document.

You can also reference classes, modules, functions, etc that are documented using the sphinx autodoc facilites. For example, see the module matplotlib.backend_bases documentation, or the class LocationEvent, or the method mpl_connect().

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.. _cheat-sheet:

******************
Sphinx cheat sheet
******************

Here is a quick and dirty cheat sheet for some common stuff you want
to do in sphinx and ReST.  You can see the literal source for this
file at :ref:`cheatsheet
-literal`.
   

.. _formatting-text:

Formatting text
===============

You use inline markup to make text *italics*, **bold**, or ``monotype``.

You can represent code blocks fairly easily::

   import numpy as np
   x = np.random.rand(12)

Or literally include code:

.. literalinclude:: pyplots/ellipses.py

.. _making-a-list:

Making a list
=============

It is easy to make lists in rest

Bullet points
-------------

This is a subsection making bullet points

* point A

* point B

* point C


Enumerated points
------------------

This is a subsection making numbered points

#. point A

#. point B

#. point C


.. _making-a-table:

Making a table
==============

This shows you how to make a table -- if you only want to make a list see :ref:`making-a-list`.

==================   ============
Name                 Age
==================   ============
John D Hunter        40
Cast of Thousands    41
And Still More       42
==================   ============

.. _making-links:

Making links
============

It is easy to make a link to `yahoo <http://yahoo.com>`_ or to some
section inside this document (see :ref:`making-a-table`) or another
document.

You can also reference classes, modules, functions, etc that are
documented using the sphinx `autodoc
<http://sphinx.pocoo.org/ext/autodoc.html>`_ facilites.  For example,
see the module :mod:`matplotlib.backend_bases` documentation, or the
class :class:`~matplotlib.backend_bases.LocationEvent`, or the method
:meth:`~matplotlib.backend_bases.FigureCanvasBase.mpl_connect`.



.. _cheatsheet-literal:

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.. literalinclude:: cheatsheet.rst