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
pip install -r requirements.txt

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

Coding Convention#

We follow the PEP8 convention for Python code and check for correct syntax with ruff. In addition, we check for common spelling errors with codespell. Both tools and possible exceptions are defined in pyproject.toml.

The checks are executed in the CI using pre-commit. You can enable those checks locally by executing:

pip install pre-commit  # consider system wide installation
pre-commit install
pre-commit run --all-files

Afterwards ruff and codespell are executed every time you create a commit.

You can also install ruff and codespell and call it directly:

pip install ruff codespell  # consider system wide installation
ruff check .
codespell

It can be restricted to specific files:

ruff check sphinxcontrib/katex.py
codespell sphinxcontrib/katex.py

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 once you create a pull request on Github.

Updating to a new KaTeX version#

sphinxcontrib.katex is bond to fixed KaTeX versions. To update the package to a new KaTeX version, execute:

bash update-katex-version.sh

and commit the resulting changes.

Creating a New Release#

New releases are made using the following steps:

  1. Bump version number in sphinxcontrib/katex.py

  2. Update CHANGELOG.rst

  3. Commit those changes as “Release X.Y.Z”

  4. Create an (annotated) tag with git tag -a vX.Y.Z

  5. Push the commit and the tag to Github

  6. Check that the new release was built correctly on RTD, delete the “stable” version and select the new release as default version