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authorMatthew Woehlke <matthew.woehlke@kitware.com>2023-03-09 16:32:07 (GMT)
committerMatthew Woehlke <matthew.woehlke@kitware.com>2023-03-09 16:32:07 (GMT)
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Utilities/Sphinx: Make signatures linkable
Add signatures to the collection of observed objects (which can be referenced elsewhere). Don't automatically strip parameters from a :command: reference, as these may now link signatures. (Do, however, munge them into 'text <ref>' form if they aren't already, as not doing so adds an extra '()' for some reason.) Correspondingly, change xref resolution to try to match 'command' when a ref like 'command(args)' is not matched, so that existing links to commands that have not been converted to use the new signature directive don't immediately break.
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@@ -270,8 +270,7 @@ The ``signature`` directive requires one argument, the signature summary:
abbreviate it in the ``signature`` directive argument and specify the full
signature in a ``code-block`` in the description.
-The ``signature`` directive generates a document-local hyperlink target
-for each signature:
+The ``signature`` directive generates a hyperlink target for each signature:
* Default target names are automatically extracted from leading "keyword"
arguments in the signatures, where a keyword is any sequence of
@@ -299,7 +298,8 @@ for each signature:
* The targets may be referenced from within the same document using
```REF`_`` or ```TEXT <REF_>`_`` syntax. Like reStructuredText section
- headers, the targets do not work with Sphinx ``:ref:`` syntax.
+ headers, the targets do not work with Sphinx ``:ref:`` syntax, however
+ they can be globally referenced using e.g. ``:command:`string(APPEND)```.
The directive treats its content as the documentation of the signature(s).
Indent the signature documentation accordingly.