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| author | Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com> | 2020-09-11 13:34:46 +0000 |
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| committer | Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> | 2020-09-16 11:09:51 -0600 |
| commit | c170f2eb9648bbc1cd46eac99bbcda7ce1b5a98f (patch) | |
| tree | aef06f09e70779800d3b758542da4a14af8d8071 /Documentation/doc-guide | |
| parent | d18b01789ae5abba2ce8dd23c984926eca3925a9 (diff) | |
| download | linux-c170f2eb9648bbc1cd46eac99bbcda7ce1b5a98f.tar.bz2 | |
docs: Document cross-referencing between documentation pages
The syntax to cross-reference between documentation pages wasn't
documented anywhere.
Document the cross-referencing using the new automarkup for
Documentation/... and also Sphinx's doc directive for using relative
paths.
Signed-off-by: Nícolas F. R. A. Prado <nfraprado@protonmail.com>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20200911133339.327721-4-nfraprado@protonmail.com
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/doc-guide')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst index f71ddd592aaa..896478baf570 100644 --- a/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst +++ b/Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst @@ -337,6 +337,23 @@ Rendered as: - column 3 +Cross-referencing +----------------- + +Cross-referencing from one documentation page to another can be done by passing +the path to the file starting from the Documentation folder. +For example, to cross-reference to this page (the .rst extension is optional):: + + See Documentation/doc-guide/sphinx.rst. + +If you want to use a relative path, you need to use Sphinx's ``doc`` directive. +For example, referencing this page from the same directory would be done as:: + + See :doc:`sphinx`. + +For information on cross-referencing to kernel-doc functions or types, see +Documentation/doc-guide/kernel-doc.rst. + .. _sphinx_kfigure: Figures & Images |