FAQ

FAQ#

Installation#

I.1 - I cannot install doxysphinx because of dependency clashes with my existing environment#

Doxysphinx doesn’t have many runtime dependencies, however especially click (cli tool) might introduce these problems (as it’s very widely used).

You have several options:

1. Use a virtual environment#

First time setup:

# create a new virtual environment in your project root
python3 -m venv .venv-doxysphinx

# install doxysphinx into new virtual environment
.venv-doxysphinx/bin/pip3 installdoxysphinx

Usage:

# you then have 2 options to call doxysphinx:

# Option A): call doxysphinx inside virtualenv
source .venv-doxysphinx/bin/activate
doxysphinx

# Option B): call doxysphinx directly without activating venv
.venv-doxysphinx/bin/doxysphinx

2. Use the pex package#

Head over to the github releases section and download the pex package. This is a self contained executable which should work if you have a compatible python installed.

Styling/Customizing#

S.1 - Element X looks ugly with my theme Y. How can I change that?#

You can try to override the CSS styles for your theme. If you take a look into our repo’s docs/_static folder you can see 2 custom theme-override-css files. The mechanism to load the correct one is defined in the conf.py (html_css_files setting).

However in general you just need to put your css into a path configured in html_static_path and then reference it in html_css_files and it will get loaded.

Contribution#

C.1 - Some of the graphics in here are sketch files, how can i use them?#

We use Lunacy at present as graphics editor to just get svg files in the end. At present Lunacy is free for personal and commercial use.

The sketch format can also be used with Sketch and other tools like Figma are also able to at least import it.

However in the end any svg editor will do. If you contribute, contribute svgs. If you’re happening to use another editing tool that has another native format you can just check the original sources in.

If you want to stay full open source Inkscape is a very good option to just have a good svg editor.

C.2 - Which image format should i use for documentation?#

In descending order of preference:

  • svg

  • png

If these formats cuts information from the original file please also consider providing the original.

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