From df424147820423dc90b0a864db1c8ca1d72d3588 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Stefan van der Walt <stefan@sun.ac.za>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2014 02:17:22 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] Improved example notebook generation

When examples get converted to notebooks, we use docutils to convert the ReST
paragraphs to HTML (markdown).  Docutils doesn't understand all of Sphinx's
markup, so we have to compromise in certain places.
---
 doc/ext/plot2rst.py | 54 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
 1 file changed, 50 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/ext/plot2rst.py b/doc/ext/plot2rst.py
index 268ddb63..0b618b3b 100644
--- a/doc/ext/plot2rst.py
+++ b/doc/ext/plot2rst.py
@@ -66,10 +66,12 @@ Suggested CSS definitions
 
 """
 import os
+import re
 import shutil
 import token
 import tokenize
 import traceback
+import itertools
 
 import numpy as np
 import matplotlib
@@ -83,7 +85,7 @@ from skimage.util.dtype import dtype_range
 from notebook import Notebook
 
 from docutils.core import publish_parts
-
+from sphinx.domains.python import PythonDomain
 
 LITERALINCLUDE = """
 .. literalinclude:: {src_name}
@@ -332,6 +334,8 @@ def write_example(src_name, src_dir, rst_dir, cfg):
         notebook_path.exists:
         return
 
+    print('plot2rst: %s' % basename)
+
     blocks = split_code_and_text_blocks(example_file)
     if blocks[0][2].startswith('#!'):
         blocks.pop(0) # don't add shebang line to rst file.
@@ -380,15 +384,57 @@ def write_example(src_name, src_dir, rst_dir, cfg):
     # Export example to IPython notebook
     nb = Notebook()
 
-    for (cell_type, _, content) in blocks:
-        content = content.rstrip('\n')
+    # Add sphinx roles to the examples, otherwise docutils
+    # cannot compile the ReST for the notebook
+    sphinx_roles = PythonDomain.roles.keys()
+    preamble = '\n'.join('.. role:: py:{0}(literal)\n'.format(role)
+                         for role in sphinx_roles)
 
+    # Grab all references to inject them in cells where needed
+    ref_regexp = re.compile('\n(\.\. \[(\d+)\].*(?:\n[ ]{7,8}.*)+)')
+    math_role_regexp = re.compile(':math:`(.*?)`')
+
+    text = '\n'.join((content for (cell_type, _, content) in blocks
+                     if cell_type != 'code'))
+
+    references = re.findall(ref_regexp, text)
+
+    for (cell_type, _, content) in blocks:
         if cell_type == 'code':
             nb.add_cell(content, cell_type='code')
         else:
-            content = content.replace('"""', '')
+            if content.startswith('r'):
+                content = content.replace('r"""', '')
+                escaped = False
+            else:
+                content = content.replace('"""', '')
+                escaped = True
+
+            if not escaped:
+                content = content.replace("\\", "\\\\")
+
+            content = content.replace('.. seealso::', '**See also:**')
+            content = re.sub(math_role_regexp, r'$\1$', content)
+
+            # Remove math directive when rendering notebooks
+            # until we implement a smarter way of capturing and replacing
+            # its content
+            content = content.replace('.. math::', '')
+
+            if not content.strip():
+                continue
+
+            content = (preamble + content).rstrip('\n')
             content = '\n'.join([line for line in content.split('\n') if
                                  not line.startswith('.. image')])
+
+            # Remove reference links until we can figure out a better way to
+            # preserve them
+            for (reference, ref_id) in references:
+                ref_tag = '[{0}]_'.format(ref_id)
+                if ref_tag in content:
+                    content = content.replace(ref_tag, ref_tag[:-1])
+
             html = publish_parts(content, writer_name='html')['html_body']
             nb.add_cell(html, cell_type='markdown')