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Sphinx vs Swift-DocC

Sphinx

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Swift-DocC

swift.org

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Price fromFree—
Free planYes—
Free trial——
Open source——
WebYes—
WindowsYes—
macOSYesYes
LinuxYesYes
APIYes—
Self-hostedYes—
Plans published10
Spec score · Documentation Generators8.2 (#7)5.4 (#37)
Founded20072021

Plans

Sphinx

  • Sphinx open-source softwareFree

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Swift-DocC

No plans published.

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Sphinx

Sphinx is a free Python application that generates technical documentation from structured text. Authors can use reStructuredText or MyST Markdown; Markdown requires installing MyST-Parser separately. Built-in builders produce HTML, LaTeX for PDF, ePub, manual pages, Texinfo, and plain text. References can link sections, figures, tables, citations, glossaries, and code objects within one project or across projects. The autodoc extension imports documented modules and includes material from their docstrings. Themes and extensions, both built-in and third-party, add options such as diagrams, doctests, and API documentation. Other built-in extensions provide GitHub Pages publishing, Graphviz graphs, and intersphinx links. Sphinx also supports gettext-based translation and full-text search. It can be installed through Python and platform package managers, Docker, or from source, then deployed to services such as Read the Docs, GitHub Pages, GitLab Pages, Netlify, or self-hosted servers. Its code is released under the two-clause BSD license, and the project is community supported.

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Swift-DocC

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