# Sphinx: documentation generator using reStructuredText, README overview

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The README presents Sphinx as a documentation generator built on reStructuredText.

Source: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx

What it supplies: The README presents Sphinx as a documentation generator built on reStructuredText.

Useful for: - Write manuals and docs and build them as HTML, PDF or EPUB.
- Extend builds with extensions for API docs or notebooks.

First action: - Run pip install -U sphinx.
- Follow the Sphinx documentation to create a project.

Prerequisites and limits: The README says you need a working installation of Python and pip.

- PDF output depends on a TeX toolchain described in the documentation.
- The README does not walk through project setup.

Source-documented: a badge names BSD 2-Clause.

Written from the README text only. Statements are as the README gives them; nothing was installed or run.
Based on intro, features, installation and licence badge README text only; other sections were not read. Nothing was installed or run.

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