The guide covers the development of the theme itself. This includes the tools used and the workflow for contributing changes.
This is a custom theme Sphinx which makes it a large dependancy. Instead of using the CSS templates this theme makes use of LESS to create dynamic style sheets. For quickly building the theme CSS and documentation this project uses tox.
If you plan on making changes to the theme CSS you should have the LESS compiler installed. This should be installed globally from NPM:
npm install less -g
If you don’t have NPM installed you can get it from the following PPA:
sudo apt-get install python-software-properties
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:chris-lea/node.js
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nodejs npm
Tox is easiest to install from PyPi:
pip install tox
The configuration is defined in the tox.ini file. You can use tox to build
the LESS to CSS with:
tox -e less
Or build the latest documentation for the theme with:
tox -e doc
Or build the CSS then the docs with:
tox