DO YOU REALLY WANT TO DO THIS?
This directory contains the code to build the matplotlib web page,
which can be found at http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net. In other
words, unless you want to edit the web page docs, there is not much
need to build them yourself since they are available online.
If all you want is the pydoc documentation, this is online at
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/matlab_commands.html and
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/classdocs.html
If you really want to build the html docs yourself, you will need to
have all backends working.
OK, YOU'RE STILL HERE?
The html for the matplotlib web site is generated using yaptu, a
simple (71 lines of code!) but powerful templating engine
http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Cookbook/Python/Recipe/52305
All of the web pages are templates, eg, index.html.template in which I
combine arbitrary python data structures with yaptu templating.
process_docs.py is a script to generate the pydocs for the class
library, and munge the generated output into a format suitable for
inclusion into the web page.
convert.py is the workhorse that runs all the templates and generates
the html with the appropriate headers and footers.
screenshots/makeshots.py is a script that creates all the screenshots
that can be generated dyamically (some cannot be because, for
example, they are screenshots of figure windows with the navigation
toolbar).
BUILDING THE DOCS IN A NUTSHELL
All you need to do to build the html documentation is 'make
htmldocs'. This runs process_docs.py and convert.py for you. I
decoupled running the screenshot script from building the docs
because typically I need to rebuild the docs more often than I
need to rebuild the screenshots. To build the shots do
> cd screenshots
> python makeshots.py
After you have done the point your browser at
file:///your/dev/matplotlb/htdocs/index.html
