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…of rST and the so-called governance of docutils (the de facto rST parser) (see e.g. discussion on https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8039 and linking issues)
comment by nickledave · 2025-11-22 · in Markdown is holding you back -
…: > Sphinx searchindex.js does Porter stemming for English and other languages: [ sphinx.search: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/tree/master/sphinx/sear... ] atsphinx/pagefind adds pagefind search to sphinx docs :…
comment by westurner · 2025-11-03 · in Bye, Google Search -
…discussion about that in these issues: https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser/issues/163 https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/issues/8018
comment by jw_cook · 2023-12-03 · in Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about? -
…Sphinx searchindex.js does Porter stemming for English and other languages: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/5.x/sphinx/search/... sphinxcontrib.websupport.search supports Xapian, Whoosh (Python), and null: https://github.com
comment by westurner · 2022-05-09 · in Show HN: Pythondocs.xyz – Live search for Python documentation -
…quite a rich and established ecosystem? Combine with Furo[2] and it even looks quite similar. [1] https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx [2] https://github.com/pradyunsg/furo
comment by mulmboy · 2021-05-27 · in Technical documentation that just works -
…- Flask: https://github.com/pallets/flask - Werkzeug: https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug - Sphinx https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/tree/v1.8.5 (see compat: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/blob/v1.8.5/sphinx/util... ) -…
comment by tony · 2019-12-22 · in Go + Services = One Goliath Project -
…https://github.com/home-assistant/home-assistant https://github.com/mitmproxy/mitmproxy https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx I would say the opposite, it is not very useful for small projects.
comment by ilevkivskyi · 2017-10-23 · in Ask HN: Anyone using Python's static typing in a large project? -
…However, I had to update sphinx as well, which I have a PR open with no response from them, here: https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/pull/2644 It seems unfortunate that sphinx devs are unresponsive to contributions. The devs for mkdocs…
comment by pfultz2 · 2016-06-17 · in ReStructuredText vs. Markdown for documentation -
MkDocs ( http://mkdocs.org ) or Sphinx ( https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx ) along with ReadTheDocs ( https://readthedocs.org ). I've also used Confluence and a few other tools. These are my preferences though. What are you looking to…
comment by brianjking · 2016-02-20 · in What do you use for project documentation instead of wiki?