added docs readme file

2 files changed, 43 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/docs/README b/docs/README
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..8556dd2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/README
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+This directory contains the Sphinx documentation for libmaple.  You
+can generate HTML documentation using the Makefile if you have make,
+or using make.bat from Windows.
+
+For the impatient, you can build the HTML docs with (on Unix):
+
+    $ sudo easy_install -U Sphinx
+    $ make html
+
+Which will produce HTML documentation in build/html.
+
+All of the documentation itself lives in source/.  The directory
+source/_static is for static content like style sheets;
+source/_templates contains Sphinx templates.
+
+The documentation is written in reStructuredText (reST); it's a Python
+thing that they use to produce the docs at python.org (which are
+beautiful, if you've never seen them).  You can read more about Sphinx
+here:
+
+    http://sphinx.pocoo.org/tutorial.html
+
+Specific information on documenting C and C++ is available here:
+
+    http://sphinx.pocoo.org/domains.html
+
+The file source/conf.py is an autogenerated configuration file; you
+can read it yourself.
diff --git a/docs/source/conf.py b/docs/source/conf.py
index 7eb6782..c12ebb9 100644
--- a/docs/source/conf.py
+++ b/docs/source/conf.py
@@ -3,7 +3,8 @@
 # libmaple documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Thu Oct  7 06:42:30 2010.
 #
-# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir.
+# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its
+# containing dir.
 #
 # Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
 # autogenerated file.
@@ -18,14 +19,17 @@ import sys, os
 # documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
 #sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
 
-# -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
+# -- General configuration ----------------------------------------------------
 
 # If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
 #needs_sphinx = '1.0'
 
-# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be extensions
-# coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom ones.
-extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.doctest', 'sphinx.ext.intersphinx', 'sphinx.ext.todo', 'sphinx.ext.coverage']
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = ['sphinx.ext.autodoc', 'sphinx.ext.doctest',
+              'sphinx.ext.intersphinx', 'sphinx.ext.todo',
+              'sphinx.ext.coverage']
 
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
@@ -66,7 +70,8 @@ release = '0.0.7'
 # directories to ignore when looking for source files.
 exclude_patterns = []
 
-# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all documents.
+# The reST default role (used for this markup: `text`) to use for all
+# documents.
 #default_role = None
 
 # If true, '()' will be appended to :func: etc. cross-reference text.
@@ -87,7 +92,7 @@ pygments_style = 'sphinx'
 #modindex_common_prefix = []
 
 
-# -- Options for HTML output ---------------------------------------------------
+# -- Options for HTML output --------------------------------------------------
 
 # The theme to use for HTML and HTML Help pages.  See the documentation for
 # a list of builtin themes.
@@ -167,7 +172,7 @@ html_static_path = ['_static']
 htmlhelp_basename = 'libmapledoc'
 
 
-# -- Options for LaTeX output --------------------------------------------------
+# -- Options for LaTeX output -------------------------------------------------
 
 # The paper size ('letter' or 'a4').
 #latex_paper_size = 'letter'
@@ -176,7 +181,7 @@ htmlhelp_basename = 'libmapledoc'
 #latex_font_size = '10pt'
 
 # Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
-# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
+# (source start file, target file, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual])
 latex_documents = [
   ('index', 'libmaple.tex', u'libmaple Documentation',
    u'Marti Bolivar, Perry Hung, Andrew Meyer, Brian Newbold', 'manual'),
@@ -206,7 +211,7 @@ latex_documents = [
 #latex_domain_indices = True
 
 
-# -- Options for manual page output --------------------------------------------
+# -- Options for manual page output -------------------------------------------
 
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).