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14 changes: 12 additions & 2 deletions doc/devel/documenting_mpl.rst
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The documentation for matplotlib is generated from ReStructured Text using the
Sphinx_ documentation generation tool. Sphinx-1.3 or later and numpydoc 0.4 or
later is required.

Sphinx_ documentation generation tool.
The requirements are as follows (https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/blob/master/doc-requirements.txt)
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This file only list the pip-installable dependencies, as these can be installed directly using:
pip install -r doc-requirements.txt

Unfortunalety, we also have dependencies that need to be installed separetaly (graphviz).


1. Sphinx-1.3 or later(Version 1.5.0 is not supported)
2. numpydoc 0.4 or later
3. IPython
4. Mock
5. colorspacious
6. pillow
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graphviz is missing from the dependency list.

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I'll add

7. graphviz


The documentation sources are found in the :file:`doc/` directory in
the trunk. To build the users guide in html format, cd into
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