Formats

In Sphinx, you can use reStructuredText (reST) format to write documentation. The following is a tutorial on how to use bold, italic in Sphinx documentation.

Bold

In reST, you can use double asterisks ** to indicate bold text.

Example:

**This is bold text**

Rendered result:

This is bold text

Italic

Italic text can be indicated using single asterisks * .

Example:

*This is italic text*

Rendered result:

This is italic text