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# Sphinx Markup Constructs

Sphinx adds a lot of new directives and interpreted text roles to standard reST markup. This section contains the reference material for these facilities.

- The TOC tree
  - Special names
- Paragraph-level markup
- Table-of-contents markup
- Glossary
- Grammar production displays
- Showing code examples
  - Line numbers
  - Includes
  - Caption and name
  - Dedent
- Inline markup
  - Cross-referencing syntax
    - Cross-referencing anything
    - Cross-referencing objects
    - Cross-referencing arbitrary locations
    - Cross-referencing documents
    - Referencing downloadable files
    - Cross-referencing figures by figure number
    - Cross-referencing other items of interest
  - Other semantic markup
  - Substitutions
- Miscellaneous markup
  - File-wide metadata
  - Meta-information markup
  - Index-generating markup
  - Including content based on tags
  - Tables

More markup is added by Sphinx Domains.