README.rst

Auto-documentation of the MESSAGEix framework

The documentation of the MESSAGEix framework is generated from rst files included in doc\source and from mark-up comments in the GAMS code written in restructured text.

Dependencies

Install with the package. From the parent directory:

$ pip install .[docs]

Writing in Restructured Text

There are a number of guides out there, e.g. on docutils.

Building the docs on your local machine

From the command line, run:

make html

You can then view the site by:

cd build
python -m SimpleHTTPServer

and pointing your browser at http://localhost:8000/html/

Read the Docs

On Read the Docs (RTD), the documentation is built using a command similar to:

sphinx-build -T -E -d _build/doctrees-readthedocs -D language=en .

_build/html

This command is executed in the directory containing conf.py, i.e. doc/source/. Note that this is different from doc/, where the above make tools are invoked. Use this to test whether the documentation build works on RTD.