[IPython-dev] IPython documentation

[Brian Granger]

>
> Actually, with single file, search is just ctrl + F away ;-)
>
> Additional advantage of a single big file is that it's easy to print
> (both the source and built documentation), if need be (e.g. if you
> don't happen have the pdf handy). The .rst document is usable as a
> documentation as such, on systems that don't have viewers for other
> file systems.
>
> It's true, though, that Sphinx is optimized for multiple source files,
> so either way is fine.

The main reason that I did this is that the size of the single file
was becoming a bit crazy with all of the new parallel computing docs
merged in.  I really want the docs to be easy for us devs to maintain
and having multiple files really help a lot.

Brian


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