Sphinx Markup Constructs

Sphinx adds a lot of new directives and interpreted text roles to standard reST markup. This section contains the reference material for these facilities.

• The TOC tree
  • Special names
• Paragraph-level markup
• Table-of-contents markup
• Glossary
• Grammar production displays
• Showing code examples
  • Line numbers
  • Includes
• Inline markup
  • Cross-referencing syntax
    • Cross-referencing objects
    • Cross-referencing arbitrary locations
    • Cross-referencing documents
    • Referencing downloadable files
    • Cross-referencing other items of interest
  • Other semantic markup
  • Substitutions
• Miscellaneous markup
  • File-wide metadata
  • Meta-information markup
  • Index-generating markup
  • Including content based on tags
  • Tables

More markup is added by Sphinx Domains.