Idris2/docs/README.md
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# Documentation for the Idris Language.
This manual has been prepared using ReStructured Text and the [Sphinx Documentation Generator](https://www.sphinx-doc.org) for future inclusion on [Read The Docs](https://readthedocs.org).
## Dependencies
To build the manual, the following dependencies must be met. We assume that you have standard build automation tools already installed i.e. `make`.
### Sphinx-Doc
Python should be installed by default on most systems.
Sphinx can be installed either through your hosts package manager or using pip/easy_install.
Recommended way is to use virtual environment for building documentation.
*Note* [ReadTheDocs](https://readthedocs.org) works with Sphinx
`v1.2.2`. If you install a more recent version of sphinx then
'incorrectly' marked up documentation may get passed the build system
of readthedocs and be ignored. In the past we had several code-blocks
disappear because of that.
The ReadTheDocs theme can be installed in virtual environment using pip as follows:
```sh
python3 -m venv idris2docs_venv
source idris2docs_venv/bin/activate
pip install --upgrade pip
pip install sphinx_rtd_theme
```
### LaTeX
LaTeX can be installed either using your systems package manager or directly from TeXLive.
## Build Instructions
```sh
cd docs
make html
make latexpdf
```
## Contributing
The documentation for Idris has been published under the Creative
Commons CC0 License. As such to the extent possible under law, /The
Idris Community/ has waived all copyright and related or neighboring
rights to Documentation for Idris.
More information concerning the CC0 can be found online at:
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
When contributing material to the manual please bear in mind that the work will be licensed as above.