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Sphinx: Improve doc strings

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python
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Start with the docstring in randomfiletree/core.py at lines 114-134 and compare it with the rendered Sphinx output linked in the issue. Check why the arguments are not all recognized, and consider the work complete when the generated HTML documents every argument consistently with the original docstring.

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I'm not a Sphinx fan so I'm not able to give you an advice how to solve this.

But please see that this HTML output
https://randomfiletree.readthedocs.io/en/latest/core.html#randomfiletree.core.iterative_gaussian_tree

doesn't fit to the original docstring
https://github.com/klieret/RandomFileTree/blob/4e3df78b642f46a7148661362d8e28935c72867f/randomfiletree/core.py#L114-L134

Not all arguments are recognized as arguments.

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