See also This documentation is based based upon documentation found in: Sphinx Docutils Note Sphinx code is written in reST. Nonetheless, sphinx adds many additional directives on top of the reST syntax. Therefore sphinx code may not be fully compatible with reST. 3.6.2.1. Introduction¶ reStructuredText is an easy-to-read, what-you-see-is-what-you-get plaintext markup syntax and parser system. It