Contributing

If you find errors, omissions, inconsistencies or other things that need improvement, please create an issue or a pull request at https://github.com/hagenw/sphinxcontrib-katex/. Contributions are always welcome!

Development Installation

Instead of pip-installing the latest release from PyPI, you should get the newest development version from Github:

git clone https://github.com/hagenw/sphinxcontrib-katex.git
cd sphinxcontrib-katex
# Create virtual environment
python setup.py develop

This way, your installation always stays up-to-date, even if you pull new changes from the Github repository.

If you prefer, you can also replace the last command with:

pip install -e .

… where -e stands for --editable.

Building the Documentation

If you make changes to the documentation, you can re-create the HTML pages using Sphinx. You can install it and a few other necessary packages with:

pip install -r docs/requirements.txt

To create the HTML pages, use:

python -m sphinx docs/ build/sphinx/ -b html

The generated files will be available in the directory build/sphinx/.

It is also possible to automatically check if all links are still valid:

python -m sphinx docs/ build/sphinx/ -b linkcheck

Running Tests

sphinxcontrib.katex is supposed to work for all versions sphinx>=1.6. To test that you have to use a stripped down version of the documentation that is provided in the tests/ folder, as the documentation under docs/ uses features that are only supported by sphinx>=1.8.

To test that everything works as expected, please execute:

python -m sphinx tests/ tests/_build/ -c docs/ -b html -W
python -m sphinx tests/ tests/_build/ -c docs/ -b latex -W

The same tests are automatically performed by Travis once you create a pull request on Github.

Creating a New Release

New releases are made using the following steps:

  1. Bump version number in sphinxcontrib/katex.py
  2. Update NEWS.rst
  3. Commit those changes as “Release x.y.z”
  4. Create an (annotated) tag with git tag -a x.y.z
  5. Clear the dist/ directory
  6. Create a source distribution with python setup.py sdist
  7. Create a wheel distribution with python setup.py bdist_wheel --universal
  8. Check that both files have the correct content
  9. Upload them to PyPI with twine: twine upload dist/*
  10. Push the commit and the tag to Github and add release notes containing a link to PyPI and the bullet points from NEWS.rst
  11. Check that the new release was built correctly on RTD, delete the “stable” version and select the new release as default version