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Support help for plugins in sasview

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Assessment

Difficulty
2/5
Estimated time
1-3 hours
Newbie friendliness
70/100
Issue type
Documentation
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Active
Tech stack
python
Domain
documentation

Research direction

Review linked issue #765 for SasView help system markup requirements, then locate existing model docstrings in the sasmodels package to assess current reStructuredText usage. Update docstring conventions to use markup compatible with the SasView help renderer, then verify changes display correctly in the help system.

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Description

SasModels Infrastructure SasView coordination

Modify docstring conventions for models so that they can be rendered in the SasView help system.

The current docstring markup is done with reStructuredText which only supports full document build.

See #765

Dominant language
Python
Stars
23
Forks
32
Avg merge
7d 20h
Merged PRs (30d)
2

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