[PATCH v3 1/2] docs/conf.py: Treat mathjax as fallback math renderer

Akira Yokosawa
2022-08-27T04:37:31Z

Currently, math expressions using the "math::" directive or
the ":math:" role of Sphinx need the imgmath extension for proper
rendering in html and epub builds.
imgmath requires dvipng (and latex).
Otherwise, "make htmldocs" will complain of missing commands.

As a matter of fact, the mathjax extension is loaded by default since
Sphinx v1.8 and it is good enough for html docs without any dependency
on texlive packages.

Stop loading the imgmath extension for html docs unless requirements
for imgmath are met.

To find out whether required commands are available, add a helper
find_command(), which is a wrapper of shutil.which().

For epub docs, keep the same behavior of always loading imgmath.

Signed-off-by: Akira Yokosawa <akiyks@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@kernel.org>
---
Changes since v2:
- Mention find_command() in the changelog.
- Simplify find_command() by using shutil.which().

Changes sinve v1:
- Acked-by from Mauro
--
Documentation/conf.py | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
1 file changed, 28 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/conf.py b/Documentation/conf.py
index 255384d094bf..c4aaedd96220 100644
--- a/Documentation/conf.py
+++ b/Documentation/conf.py
@@ -15,6 +15,18 @@
import sys
import os
import sphinx
+import shutil
+
+# helper
+# ------
+
+def have_command(cmd):
+ """Search ``cmd`` in the ``PATH`` environment.
+
+ If found, return True.
+ If not found, return False.
+ """
+ return shutil.which(cmd) is not None

# Get Sphinx version
major, minor, patch = sphinx.version_info[:3]
@@ -107,7 +119,22 @@ else:
autosectionlabel_prefix_document = True
autosectionlabel_maxdepth = 2

-extensions.append("sphinx.ext.imgmath")
+# Load math renderer:
+# For html builder, load imgmath only when its dependencies are met.
+# mathjax is the default math renderer since Sphinx 1.8.
+have_latex = have_command('latex')
+have_dvipng = have_command('dvipng')
+load_imgmath = ((have_latex and have_dvipng)
+ or (major == 1 and minor < 8)
+ or 'epub' in sys.argv)
+
+if load_imgmath:
+ extensions.append("sphinx.ext.imgmath")
+ math_renderer = 'imgmath'
+else:
+ math_renderer = 'mathjax'
+
+sys.stderr.write("math_renderer: %s\n" % math_renderer)

# Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
templates_path = ['_templates']
--
2.25.1