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Sphinx docx builder extension.

Project description

Sphinx docx builder extension generate single docx file from Sphinx document source. This extension use python-docx module (included) for the docx file generation.

Features

  • This extension work on Multi-platform (not need OpenOffice or MS Word).

  • Usable sphinx syntax and directives:
    • heading line output

    • paragraph output (standard body text)

    • image and figure directive output

    • bullet-list and numbered-list output

    • table output (restrictive)

Currently, many directives and indented block are not work correctly, yet.

Setup

Make environment by easy_install

Not yet.

Make environment by buildout

‘hg clone’ or download sphinxcontrib-docxbuilder archive from ‘get source’ menu at http://bitbucket.org/shimizukawa/sphinxcontrib-docxbuilder

$ cd /path/to/sphinxcontrib-docxbuilder
$ python bootstrap.py -d init
$ bin/buildout

run example

for example sphinx-docx building, simply run below:

$ bin/example
...
Saved new file to: examples/example-0.1.docx

Usage

Set ‘sphinxcontrib-docxbuilder’ to ‘extensions’ line of target sphinx source conf.py:

extensions = ['sphinxcontrib-docxbuilder']

Execute sphinx-build with below option:

$ bin/sphinx-build -b docx [input-dir] [output-dir]
$ ls [output-dir]
output.docx

Requirements

  • Python 2.6 or later (not support 3.x)

  • python-docx (not released, but included), Thanks Mike MacCana.

  • setuptools or distriubte.

History

0.0.1 (unreleased)

  • Not released.

Todos

Functionals

  • table output

  • toctree generation (dispose toctree output? create by docx function?)

  • reset number for non-continuous numbered list

  • add page-break directive

  • implement many many directives
    • note

    • warning

    • code highlighting

    • and etc….

  • using dotx template

  • some emphasis (italic, bold)

Environments

  • docx builder need python-docx package, but not distributed at PyPI.

  • python-docx can’t generate <w:i> (italic) and <w:b> (bold) mode tag.

Known Issues

  • some indented block output are not working correctly yet.
    • block-quote

    • literal-block

  • figure directive’s caption become normal paragraph (not bundled with image).

  • python-docx using template’s media(image) folder for temporarily, then some independent document’s media files are shared unexpectly.

  • image directive break docx format (maybe very large file are included)

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