You only need to generate the documentation to inspect it locally (if you're planning changes and want to
check how they look before committing for instance). You don't have to commit the built documentation.
---
## Previewing the documentation
To preview the docs, first install the `watchdog` module with:
```bash
pip install watchdog
```
Then run the following command:
```bash
doc-builder preview {package_name} {path_to_docs}
```
For example:
```bash
doc-builder preview diffusers docs/source/
```
The docs will be viewable at [http://localhost:3000](http://localhost:3000). You can also preview the docs once you have opened a PR. You will see a bot add a comment to a link where the documentation with your changes lives.
---
**NOTE**
The `preview` command only works with existing doc files. When you add a completely new file, you need to update `_toctree.yml`& restart `preview` command (`ctrl-c` to stop it & call `doc-builder preview ...` again).
---
## Adding a new element to the navigation bar
Accepted files are Markdown (.md or .mdx).
Create a file with its extension and put it in the source directory. You can then link it to the toc-tree by putting
the filename without the extension in the [`_toctree.yml`](https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/blob/main/docs/source/_toctree.yml) file.
## Renaming section headers and moving sections
It helps to keep the old links working when renaming the section header and/or moving sections from one document to another. This is because the old links are likely to be used in Issues, Forums, and Social media and it'd make for a much more superior user experience if users reading those months later could still easily navigate to the originally intended information.
Therefore, we simply keep a little map of moved sections at the end of the document where the original section was. The key is to preserve the original anchor.
So if you renamed a section from: "Section A" to "Section B", then you can add at the end of the file:
Use the relative style to link to the new file so that the versioned docs continue to work.
For an example of a rich moved section set please see the very end of [the transformers Trainer doc](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers/blob/main/docs/source/en/main_classes/trainer.mdx).
## Writing Documentation - Specification
The `huggingface/diffusers` documentation follows the
[Google documentation](https://sphinxcontrib-napoleon.readthedocs.io/en/latest/example_google.html) style for docstrings,
although we can write them directly in Markdown.
### Adding a new tutorial
Adding a new tutorial or section is done in two steps:
- Add a new file under `docs/source`. This file can either be ReStructuredText (.rst) or Markdown (.md).
- Link that file in `docs/source/_toctree.yml` on the correct toc-tree.
Make sure to put your new file under the proper section. It's unlikely to go in the first section (*Get Started*), so
depending on the intended targets (beginners, more advanced users, or researchers) it should go in sections two, three, or four.
### Adding a new pipeline/scheduler
When adding a new pipeline:
- create a file `xxx.mdx` under `docs/source/api/pipelines` (don't hesitate to copy an existing file as template).
- Link that file in (*Diffusers Summary*) section in `docs/source/api/pipelines/overview.mdx`, along with the link to the paper, and a colab notebook (if available).
- Add all the pipeline classes that should be linked in the diffusion model. These classes should be added using our Markdown syntax. By default as follows:
This will include every public method of the pipeline that is documented, as well as the `__call__` method that is not documented by default. If you just want to add additional methods that are not documented, you can put the list of all methods to add in a list that contains `all`.
The same works for methods so you can either use \[\`XXXClass.method\`\] or \[~\`XXXClass.method\`\].
#### Defining arguments in a method
Arguments should be defined with the `Args:` (or `Arguments:` or `Parameters:`) prefix, followed by a line return and
an indentation. The argument should be followed by its type, with its shape if it is a tensor, a colon, and its
description:
```
Args:
n_layers (`int`): The number of layers of the model.
```
If the description is too long to fit in one line, another indentation is necessary before writing the description
after the argument.
Here's an example showcasing everything so far:
```
Args:
input_ids (`torch.LongTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length)`):
Indices of input sequence tokens in the vocabulary.
Indices can be obtained using [`AlbertTokenizer`]. See [`~PreTrainedTokenizer.encode`] and
[`~PreTrainedTokenizer.__call__`] for details.
[What are input IDs?](../glossary#input-ids)
```
For optional arguments or arguments with defaults we follow the following syntax: imagine we have a function with the
following signature:
```
def my_function(x: str = None, a: float = 1):
```
then its documentation should look like this:
```
Args:
x (`str`, *optional*):
This argument controls ...
a (`float`, *optional*, defaults to 1):
This argument is used to ...
```
Note that we always omit the "defaults to \`None\`" when None is the default for any argument. Also note that even
if the first line describing your argument type and its default gets long, you can't break it on several lines. You can
however write as many lines as you want in the indented description (see the example above with `input_ids`).
#### Writing a multi-line code block
Multi-line code blocks can be useful for displaying examples. They are done between two lines of three backticks as usual in Markdown:
````
```
# first line of code
# second line
# etc
```
````
#### Writing a return block
The return block should be introduced with the `Returns:` prefix, followed by a line return and an indentation.
The first line should be the type of the return, followed by a line return. No need to indent further for the elements
building the return.
Here's an example of a single value return:
```
Returns:
`List[int]`: A list of integers in the range [0, 1] --- 1 for a special token, 0 for a sequence token.
```
Here's an example of a tuple return, comprising several objects:
```
Returns:
`tuple(torch.FloatTensor)` comprising various elements depending on the configuration ([`BertConfig`]) and inputs:
- ** loss** (*optional*, returned when `masked_lm_labels` is provided) `torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(1,)` --
Total loss is the sum of the masked language modeling loss and the next sequence prediction (classification) loss.
- **prediction_scores** (`torch.FloatTensor` of shape `(batch_size, sequence_length, config.vocab_size)`) --
Prediction scores of the language modeling head (scores for each vocabulary token before SoftMax).
```
#### Adding an image
Due to the rapidly growing repository, it is important to make sure that no files that would significantly weigh down the repository are added. This includes images, videos, and other non-text files. We prefer to leverage a hf.co hosted `dataset` like
the ones hosted on [`hf-internal-testing`](https://huggingface.co/hf-internal-testing) in which to place these files and reference
them by URL. We recommend putting them in the following dataset: [huggingface/documentation-images](https://huggingface.co/datasets/huggingface/documentation-images).
If an external contribution, feel free to add the images to your PR and ask a Hugging Face member to migrate your images
to this dataset.
## Styling the docstring
We have an automatic script running with the `make style` command that will make sure that:
- the docstrings fully take advantage of the line width
- all code examples are formatted using black, like the code of the Transformers library
This script may have some weird failures if you made a syntax mistake or if you uncover a bug. Therefore, it's
recommended to commit your changes before running `make style`, so you can revert the changes done by that script
