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Documentation clarifications #410

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This addresses some things I had trouble with while learning to use python-soundfile.

* Clarifies range of python integer input to write(), addressing issue bastibe#405.
* Clarifies endianness of buffer_write input, which came up in issue bastibe#407.
* Clarifies how to build the docs, which confused me while preparing this PR
  (Simply installing Sphinx is not enough)
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Thank you for the pull request. I very much like it, and this is indeed crucial, missing information.

I've added two minor comments that should be addressed before merging.

``np.array([42], dtype='int32')``, to a ``subtype='FLOAT'``
file, the file will then contain ``np.array([42.],
dtype='float32')``.
* For pure Python (non-Numpy) input values, floats will
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I think this wording could be misunderstood. I would rephrase it as "floats are expected in in the range ... and integers in the range ...".

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