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+First steps to document your project using Sphinx
+=================================================
+
+Building your HTML documentation
+--------------------------------
+
+The ``index.rst`` file that ``sphinx-quickstart`` created has some content
+already, and it gets rendered as the front page of your HTML documentation.  It
+is written in reStructuredText, a powerful markup language.
+
+Modify the file as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: rst
+   :caption: docs/source/index.rst
+
+   Welcome to Lumache's documentation!
+   ===================================
+
+   **Lumache** (/lu'make/) is a Python library for cooks and food lovers that
+   creates recipes mixing random ingredients.  It pulls data from the `Open Food
+   Facts database <https://world.openfoodfacts.org/>`_ and offers a *simple* and
+   *intuitive* API.
+
+   .. note::
+
+      This project is under active development.
+
+This showcases several features of the reStructuredText syntax, including:
+
+- a **section header** using ``===`` for the underline,
+- two examples of :ref:`rst-inline-markup`: ``**strong emphasis**`` (typically
+  bold) and ``*emphasis*`` (typically italics),
+- an **inline external link**,
+- and a ``note`` **admonition** (one of the available :ref:`directives
+  <rst-directives>`)
+
+Now to render it with the new content, you can use the ``sphinx-build`` command
+as before, or leverage the convenience script as follows:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   (.venv) $ cd docs
+   (.venv) $ make html
+
+After running this command, you will see that ``index.html`` reflects the new
+changes!
+
+Building your documentation in other formats
+--------------------------------------------
+
+Sphinx supports a variety of formats apart from HTML, including PDF, EPUB,
+:ref:`and more <builders>`.  For example, to build your documentation
+in EPUB format, run this command from the ``docs`` directory:
+
+.. code-block:: console
+
+   (.venv) $ make epub
+
+After that, you will see the files corresponding to the e-book under
+``docs/build/epub/``.  You can either open ``Lumache.epub`` with an
+EPUB-compatible e-book viewer, like `Calibre <https://calibre-ebook.com/>`_,
+or preview ``index.xhtml`` on a web browser.
+
+.. note::
+
+   To quickly display a complete list of possible output formats, plus some
+   extra useful commands, you can run :code:`make help`.
+
+Each output format has some specific configuration options that you can tune,
+:ref:`including EPUB <epub-options>`.  For instance, the default value of
+:confval:`epub_show_urls` is ``inline``, which means that, by default, URLs are
+shown right after the corresponding link, in parentheses.  You can change that
+behavior by adding the following code at the end of your ``conf.py``:
+
+.. code-block:: python
+
+   # EPUB options
+   epub_show_urls = 'footnote'
+
+With this configuration value, and after running ``make epub`` again, you will
+notice that URLs appear now as footnotes, which avoids cluttering the text.
+Sweet! Read on to explore :doc:`other ways to customize
+Sphinx </tutorial/more-sphinx-customization>`.
+
+.. note::
+
+   Generating a PDF using Sphinx can be done running ``make latexpdf``,
+   provided that the system has a working LaTeX installation,
+   as explained in the documentation of :class:`sphinx.builders.latex.LaTeXBuilder`.
+   Although this is perfectly feasible, such installations are often big,
+   and in general LaTeX requires careful configuration in some cases,
+   so PDF generation is out of scope for this tutorial.