So sorry to resurrect this thread, but I am trying to include graphics for 
admonitions and would *love* it if I could refer to a working one.

I know I am a little late, Chip, but if you still have the style sheet I 
would be really interested to see it.

On Wednesday, 1 July 2009 01:24:42 UTC+10, chip wrote:
>
> Günter, 
> Thanks for the tips. 
>
> Guenter Milde wrote: 
> > On 2009-06-26, Wolfram Riedel wrote: 
> >> On Jun 26, 8:28 pm, chip <[email protected]> wrote: 
> > 
> >>> I made some tweaks to the latex stylesheet sphinx.sty and I am trying 
> >>> to determine the right way to handle these changes.  Of course I can 
> >>> keep the modified sphinx.sty in my installation, but it seems like 
> >>> there should be a better way to do this. 
> > 
> >> Much simpler. I put every style change into my own style file which I 
> >> bind from conf.py using the 'latex_elements' option's 'preamble'. 
> > 
> >> As example, you name your custom style file 'mycustomstyle.sty' and 
> >> make this definition in conf.py: 
> > 
> >> latex_elements = { 
> >> 'preamble': '\\usepackage{mycustomstyle}' 
> >> } 
> > 
> > If it's just some small tweaks, you can load the standard style and put 
> > them in the LaTeX preamble instead (this can include loading of other 
> > packages, overwriting definitions or additional commands and settings). 
> > 
>
> Actually I redefined the admonitions to include a graphic for 
> note/warning/caution in the box along with the text, so it is a bit more 
> than a couple tweaks.  If anyone is interested in the changes let me know. 
>
> >> Just copy the desired parts of the default style file over to your 
> >> custom style file and adjust it to your needs. The modificated 
> >> definitions will overwrite the default definitions. Maybe you 
> >> sometimes have to use \renewcommand{} instead of \newcommand{}, I 
> >> guess you'll figure this out. 
> > 
> >> Also, you need to add your style file to conf.py once more to 
> >> automatically let sphinx copy it to the build directory: 
> > 
> >> latex_additional_files = ['mycustomstyle.sty'] 
> > 
> > This is not even necessary if you put the custom style file in the LaTeX 
> > path (e.g. ~/texmf/tex/latex) on the system where you run latex. 
> > 
>
> Actually I was trying to avoid this in order to make the build process 
> easily repeatable on another system.  Admittedly this is much better 
> than modifying the style in the system install. 
>
> Many thanks, 
> Chip 
>
> > Günter 
> > 
> > 
> > > 
> > 
>

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