The documentation in this tree is in plain text files and can be viewed using
any text file viewer.

It uses ReST (reStructuredText) [1], and the Sphinx documentation system [2].  
This allows it to be built into other forms for easier viewing and browsing.

To create an HTML version of the docs:

* Create a virtualenv and activate it.

* Install all dependencies from requirements.txt inot the virtualenv using
  ``pip install -r requirements.txt`` (this will also install Sphinx).

* In this docs/ directory, type ``make html`` (or ``make.bat html`` on
  Windows) at a shell prompt while the virtualenv is active.

The documentation in _build/html/index.html can then be viewed in a web browser.

[1] http://docutils.sourceforge.net/rst.html
[2] http://sphinx.pocoo.org/