debian man page for sphinx-build

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NAME
       sphinx-build - Sphinx documentation generator tool

SYNOPSIS
       sphinx-build [options] <sourcedir> <outdir> [filenames ...]

DESCRIPTION
       sphinx-build generates documentation from the files in <sourcedir> and places it in the <outdir>.

       sphinx-build  looks  for  <sourcedir>/conf.py for the configuration settings.  sphinx-quickstart(1) may be used to generate template files,
       including conf.py.

       sphinx-build can create documentation in different formats.  A format is selected by specifying the builder name on the	command  line;	it
       defaults to HTML.  Builders can also perform other tasks related to documentation processing.

       By default, everything that is outdated is built.  Output only for selected files can be built by specifying individual filenames.

       List of available builders:

       html   HTML file generation.  This is the default builder.

       htmlhelp
	      Generates files for CHM (compiled help files) generation.

       qthelp Generates files for Qt help collection generation.

       devhelp
	      Generates files for the GNOME Devhelp help viewer.

       latex  Generates LaTeX output that can be compiled to a PDF document.

       man    Generates manual pages.

       texinfo
	      Generates Texinfo output that can be processed by makeinfo to generate an Info document.

       text   Generates a plain-text version of the documentation.

       changes
	      Generates HTML files listing changed/added/deprecated items for the current version of the documented project.

       linkcheck
	      Checks the integrity of all external links in the source.

       pickle / json
	      Generates serialized HTML files for use in web applications.

OPTIONS
       -b <builder>
	      Builder to use; defaults to html. See the full list of builders above.

       -a     Generate output for all files; without this option only output for new and changed files is generated.

       -E     Ignore cached files, forces to re-read all source files from disk.

       -c <path>
	      Locate the conf.py file in the specified path instead of <sourcedir>.

       -C     Specify that no conf.py file at all is to be used.  Configuration can only be set with the -D option.

       -D <setting=value>
	      Override a setting from the configuration file.

       -d <path>
	      Path to cached files; defaults to <outdir>/.doctrees.

       -A <name=value>
	      Pass a value into the HTML templates (only for HTML builders).

       -n     Run in nit-picky mode, warn about all missing references.

       -N     Prevent colored output.

       -q     Quiet operation, just print warnings and errors on stderr.

       -Q     Very quiet operation, don't print anything except for errors.

       -w <file>
	      Write warnings and errors into the given file, in addition to stderr.

       -W     Turn warnings into errors.

       -P     Run Pdb on exception.

SEE ALSO
       sphinx-quickstart(1)

AUTHOR
       Georg Brandl <georg@python.org>, Armin Ronacher <armin.ronacher@active-4.com> et al.

       This manual page was initially written by Mikhail Gusarov <dottedmag@dottedmag.net>, for the Debian project.

COPYRIGHT
       2007-2011, Georg Brandl

1.1.3								   May 24, 2012 						   SPHINX-BUILD(1)