jetblack-markdown

Markdown extensions for automatic document generation (read the docs).

Autodoc Extension

A markdown extension is provided for automatically documenting python code.

Modules are referred to as follows:

# A Top Level Module

@[jetblack_markdown]

# A Package

@[jetblack_markdown.autodoc]

# A function

@[jetblack_markdown.autodoc:makeExtension]

# A class

@[jetblack_markdown.autodoc.metadata:PropertyDescriptor]

Customizing

All the rendering is done with jinja2 templates. Start by copying the current templates from jetblack_markdown/templates and specify the template_folder in the mkdocs.yml.

LaTex2MathML Extension

There is a second extension which transforms LeTax style math formula to MathML HTML. Inline formula are surrounded by $, which blocks are fenced with $$. See the documentation for more details and examples.

mkdocs integration

This site was generated using mkdocs and the following config:

site_name: jetblack-markdown

docs_dir: documentation
site_dir: docs

markdown_extensions:
  - admonition
  - codehilite
  - jetblack_markdown.autodoc:
      class_from_init: true
      ignore_dunder: true
      ignore_private: true
      ignore_all: false
      prefer_docstring: true
      template_folder: null

extra_css:
    - css/custom.css

Configuration

There are some configuration parameters for the autodoc extension.

• class_from_init (bool, optional): If True use the docstring from the __init__ function for classes. Defaults to True.
• ignore_dunder (bool, optional): If True ignore __XXX__ functions. Defaults to True.
• ignore_private (bool, optional): If True ignore methods (those prefixed _XXX). Defaults to True.
• ignore_all (bool): If True ignore the __all__ member.
• prefer_docstring (bool): If true prefer the docstring.
• template_folder(Optional[str], optional): Specify a custom template folder. The template "main.jinja2" will be rendered passing an obj parameter which is a jetblack.markdown.metadata.Descriptor