Nextstrain Sphinx Theme

A Sphinx theme for Nextstrain’s documentation, based on Read The Docs’ default theme (sphinx_rtd_theme).

Installation

This theme is distributed on PyPI as nextstrain-sphinx-theme and can be installed with pip:

$ python3 -m pip install nextstrain-sphinx-theme

To use the theme in your Sphinx project, you will need to add the following to your conf.py file:

html_theme = "nextstrain-sphinx-theme"

This theme is based on sphinx_rtd_theme and accepts all of the same configuration options settable via html_theme_option. One additional option is supported:

logo

Boolean determining if the Nextstrain logo should be displayed. Defaults to true.

If your project wants to display its own logo, just set Sphinx’s html_logo to point to the image file in your Sphinx project.

html_logo = "_static/your-logo.png"

This will automatically take precedence over the default Nextstrain logo provided by the theme.

Releasing

  1. Make sure you have a PyPI account and access to https://pypi.org/project/nextstrain-sphinx-theme/.

  2. Make sure all your changes have been commited to the main branch.

  3. Add a commit which describes the changes from the previous version to CHANGES.rst and updates the version number in lib/nextstrain/sphinx/theme/VERSION.

  4. Tag this commit with the version number, e.g. git tag -a 2020.4 -m "version 2020.4".

  5. Push the commit and tag to GitHub, e.g. git push origin main 2020.4.

  6. Generate the source and binary distributions with setup.py.

  7. Upload the two files from step 6 to PyPI with twine.