answering my own question: I just had to copy the standard domain, and rename py-modules as mat-modules. see the source on bitbucket in the sphinxcontrib repo
On Thursday, April 25, 2013 4:39:31 PM UTC-7, Mark Mikofski wrote: > > * I have created a domain specific for MATLAB called, "MATLABDomain" > hosted in a fork of sphinx-contrib here: > https://bitbucket.org/bwanamarko/sphinx-contrib > * It is basically a copy of the pythonDomain with [pP]y converted to > [mM]at and [pP]ython converted to matlab | MATLAB conserving case. > * added the setup function to add the domain as an extension at then end > of matlab.py > def setup(app): > app.add_domain(MATLABDomain) > * I created it by running make-ext, then adding the domain module, > matlab.py. > * I installed it using python setup.py install - no warnings > * I then added 'sphinxcontrib.matlab' to extensions and made the primary > domain matlab > extensions = ['sphinx.ext.pngmath', 'sphinx.ext.mathjax', > 'sphinxcontrib.matlab'] > primary_domain = 'mat' > * I use domains as usual, .. module: is a module > * It works perfectly, except for one thing, when I make html, the > :ref:`modindex` on the index.rst page still links to > ... /_build/html/py-modindex.html instead of ... > /_build/html/mat-modindex.html > * in fact if I use that ref anywhere it always points to py-modindex.html, > which isn't created > * mat-modindex.html actually is created and interestingly the "modules" > link in the upper right hand corner in between "next" and "index" works > fine, and links to the correct page. > ... /_build/html/mat-modindex.html > * now for another twist, if I build latexpdf (using MikTeX), the link on > the index page, :ref:`modindex` actually does work, and links to the MATLAB > module index - weird. > > * I have tried to debug exactly when the href to py-modindex actually gets > written, but it is like looking for a needle in a haystack! > > <li><a class="reference internal" href="py-modindex.html"><em>Module Index > </em></a></li> > > Can anyone who has worked extensively with html writers and builders give > me a clue to what is going on? > > Jinja2==2.6 > Pygments==1.5 > Sphinx==1.1.3 > distribute==0.6.36 > docutils==0.10 > sphinxcontrib-matlabdomain==0.1dev-20130425 > Python 2.7.3 x64 > Windows 7 x64 > ReportLab > MikTeX-2.9 > > Thanks > Mark > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "sphinx-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/sphinx-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
