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Commit cca0a19f authored by Joseph Weston's avatar Joseph Weston
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update INSTALL.rst to remove references to outdated doc build machinery

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......@@ -144,9 +144,11 @@ Building the documentation
To build the documentation, the `Sphinx documentation generator
<http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/stable/>`_ is required with ``numpydoc`` extension
(version 0.5 or newer). If PDF documentation is to be built, the tools
from the `libRSVG <https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/LibRsvg>`_ (Debian/Ubuntu package
``librsvg2-bin``) are needed to convert SVG drawings into the PDF format.
(version 0.5 or newer), as well as ``jupyter-sphinx`` (version 0.2 or newer).
If PDF documentation is to be built, the tools
from the `libRSVG <https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Projects/LibRsvg>`_
(Debian/Ubuntu package ``librsvg2-bin``) are needed to convert SVG drawings
into the PDF format.
As a prerequisite for building the documentation, Kwant must have been built
successfully using ``python3 setup.py build`` as described above (or Kwant must
......@@ -160,25 +162,6 @@ Because of some quirks of how Sphinx works, it might be necessary to execute
done, Sphinx may mistakenly use PNG files for PDF output or other problems may
appear.
When ``make html`` is run, modified tutorial example scripts are executed to
update any figures that might have changed. The machinery behind this works as
follows. The canonical source for a tutorial script, say ``graphene.py`` is
the file ``doc/source/images/graphene.py.diff``. This diff file contains the
information to recreate two versions of ``graphene.py``: a version that is
presented in the documentation (``doc/source/tutorial/graphene.py``), and a
version that is used to generate the figures for the documentation
(``doc/source/images/graphene.py``). Both versions are related but differ
e.g. in the details of the plotting. When ``make html`` is run, both versions
are extracted form the diff file.
The diff file may be modified directly. Another possible way of working is to
directly modify either the tutorial script or the figure generation script.
Then ``make html`` will use the command line tool `wiggle
<https://github.com/neilbrown/wiggle>`_ to propagate the modifications accordingly.
This will often just work, but may sometimes result in conflicts, in which case
a message will be printed. The conflicts then have to be resolved much like
with a version control system.
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Hints for specific platforms
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