Maybe it is just me, but I often have a hard time to understand and navigate Sphinx based documentation, because the Table Of Contents only shows the structure of the current page (in the standard themes at least).
There is also a previous and next, but what I really would like to see is
a TOC in the sidebar that shows all parts, with the current part expanded.
For example the main page (i.e. index.rst) would be 'Overview' and opened by default. Introduction and Quickstart are Sections of index.rst:
Overview
Introduction
Quickstart
Credits
Tutorial
Contribute
Index
API
Search
'Tutorial' would be offered as next.
When the 'Contribute' item is selected, the TOC is updated like so:
Overview
Tutorial
Contribute
Install for development
Style Guide
Index
API
Search
Search, Index, API should link to the generated pages, that are typically
inserted like this in the Sphinx tutorials:
Indices and tables
==================
* :ref:`genindex`
* :ref:`modindex`
* :ref:`search`
Is there a simple way to achieve this on Read the Docs, or can anyone point to existing templates?
