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lines changed Original file line number Diff line number Diff line change @@ -39,10 +39,14 @@ for the initial run (which builds the example gallery) to be done,
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then run "python make.py html" again. The top file of the results will
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be ./build/html/index.html
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- Note that ../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc' is not version
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+ Note that Sphinx uses the installed version of the package to build
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+ the documentation, so matplotlib must be installed *before* the docs
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+ can be generated. Even if that is the case, one of the files needed
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+ to do this, '../lib/matplotlib/mpl-data/matplotlibrc', is not version
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controlled, but created when matplotlib is built. This means that the
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- HTML documentation cannot be generated immediately after checking out
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- the source code: you will have to run ``python setup.py build`` first.
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+ documentation cannot be generated immediately after checking out the
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+ source code, even if matplotlib is installed on your system: you will
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+ have to run ``python setup.py build`` first.
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To build a smaller version of the documentation (without
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high-resolution PNGs and PDF examples), type "python make.py --small
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