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139139 The Sphinx website also contains plenty ofdocumentation _ concerning ReST
140140markup and working with Sphinx in general.
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142+ Linking to other code
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144+ To link to other methods, classes, or modules in Matplotlib you can encase
145+ the name to refer to in back ticks, for example:
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147+ ..code-block ::python
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149+ `~ matplotlib.collections.LineCollection`
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151+ It is also possible to add links to code in Python, Numpy, Scipy, or Pandas.
152+ Sometimes it is tricky to get external Sphinx linking to work; to check that
153+ a something exists to link to the following shell command outputs a list of all
154+ objects that can be referenced (in this case for Numpy)::
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156+ python -m sphinx.ext.intersphinx 'https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy/objects.inv'
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142159Function arguments
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144161Function arguments and keywords within docstrings should be referred to using