Re: Command line definitions

On Fri, Feb 10, 2012 at 14:12, David Sankel <camior <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am attempting to create some rst documentation that is highly modularized.
> One repository will often pull in rst files from another repository, but the
> locations of these repositories relative to each-other is going to change
> based on how someone sets up their computer.
>
> The way I'd usually set this up is with a local-config.mk Makefile with
> something like:
>
> OTHERREPO_PATH = blah
> PYTHONSCRIPTS_PATH = C:/Python27/Scripts/
>
>
> And then the Makefile will have:
>
> include local-config.mk
>
> all: build/thisrepo.html
>
> build/%.html : src/%.rst
> python $(PYTHONSCRIPTS_PATH)/rst2html.py -DOTHERREPO_PATH=$(OTHERREPO_PATH)
> $< $ <at> 
>
> With src/thisrepo.rst having something like:
>
> .. include:: $OTHERREPO_PATH/src/otherthing.rst
>
>
> I put the mechanism I wish was there in bold font. Is there a canonical way
> to do what I'm looking for? Perhaps there is a way to add different path's
> to the <include> style?

Docutils doesn't have a mechanism for such variable interpolation.
Perhaps Sphinx does?

I suggest using a templating system as a pre-processor.

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