ROCm documentation toolchain#

Applies to Linux and Windows

2024-07-11

5 min read time

Our documentation relies on several open source toolchains and sites.

rocm-docs-core#

rocm-docs-core is an AMD-maintained project that applies customization for our documentation. This project is the tool most ROCm repositories use as part of the documentation build. It is also available as a pip package on PyPI.

See the user and developer guides for rocm-docs-core at rocm-docs-core documentation.

Sphinx#

Sphinx is a documentation generator originally used for Python. It is now widely used in the open source community.

Sphinx External ToC#

Sphinx External ToC is a Sphinx extension used for ROCm documentation navigation. This tool generates a navigation menu on the left based on a YAML file (_toc.yml.in) that contains the table of contents.

Sphinx-book-theme#

Sphinx-book-theme is a Sphinx theme that defines the base appearance for ROCm documentation. ROCm documentation applies some customization, such as a custom header and footer on top of the Sphinx Book Theme.

Sphinx Design#

Sphinx design is a Sphinx extension that adds design functionality. ROCm documentation uses Sphinx Design for grids, cards, and synchronized tabs.

Doxygen#

Doxygen is a documentation generator that extracts information from inline code. ROCm projects typically use Doxygen for public API documentation (unless the upstream project uses a different tool).

Breathe#

Breathe is a Sphinx plugin to integrate Doxygen content.

MyST#

Markedly Structured Text (MyST) is an extended flavor of Markdown (CommonMark) influenced by reStructuredText (RST) and Sphinx. It’s integrated into ROCm documentation by the Sphinx extension myst-parser. A MyST syntax cheat sheet is available on the Jupyter reference site.

Read the Docs#

Read the Docs is the service that builds and hosts the HTML documentation generated using Sphinx to our end users.