from recommonmark.parser import CommonMarkParser source_parsers = {'.md': CommonMarkParser} source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md'] This allows you to write both .md and .rst files inside of the same project. Example Project¶ You can see this in action in my sphinx-markdown-test repo on GitHub. You can also see a rendered version hosted on Read the Docs. How it works¶ The way this project works is that it