How to write documentation in this package

The syntax in the text pages is ReStructured Text format. see this page for examples of the syntax, and this one for a more comprehensive explanation of the syntax.

The syntax chosen for the auto-documentation of the Python module is Google Docstring syntax. see the google Docstring example in the Sphinx-napoleon package.

How to generate documentation

• Install sphinx package and the requirements written in the file source/requirements.txt of provided with the sources of PyBigDFT.
• Copy the quick build file Makefile-sphinxbuild of the PyBigDFT source directory into Makefile
• Run the command make html
• The documentation of the package can be explored starting from the file build/html/index.html.

Automodule generation

The directive to be used is mainly the automodule one, see this page: