Posted in 2024

How to insert video to Sphinx document

Although it sounds easy, it’s not straightforward. Sadly, pure Sphinx and the underlying library Docutils do not directly support inserting videos into documents. But we will show you two approaches to insert it anyway.

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3 Steps for Release Notes Which Users Will Love

Release notes (RNs) are a specific type of documentation for software applications. No matter if you call it changelogs, announcements, or ‘what’s new’. Unfortunately, they’re often poorly maintained or missing altogether because people tend to skip over them.

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Sphinx Themes: Permalinks to heading

Permalinks are small anchors next to the heading which allows to copy and share URL directly to that heading within the page. By default, Sphinx generates those permalinks with character (the paragraph sign), but the most themes hides it until heading mouse hover.

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Project-specific Sphinx Themes

As explained in our Sphinx Themes: Introduction, the theme is basically a folder with theme.toml, some Jinja HTML templates and static files.

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Sphinx Versions Summary

On this page, we’ll summarize a few recent Sphinx releases. We don’t want to duplicate the official Sphinx changelogs, but briefly highlight the most important changes and list supported Python and Docutils versions.

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Documatt 1.0 released. Finale or startline?

🎉 Documatt is finally here 🎉. For everyone, not just our friends and fellow tech writers. After 12+ months of development and 6 months of closed beta, you can now author in Markdown/reStructuredText and host your next documentation with us.

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