How to generate Microsoft Word documents using Sphinx

Question

Sphinx supports a few output formats:

• Multiple HTML files (with html or dirhtml)
• Latex which is useful for creating .pdf or .ps
• text

How can I obtain output in a Microsoft Word file instead?

With another doc generator I managed to generate a single html output file and then convert it to Microsoft Word format using the Word application.

Unfortunately I don't know a way to generate either Word or the HTML single-page format.

Answer 1

The solution I use is singlehtml builder like andho mentioned in the comment, then convert the html to docx using pandoc. The following sample assumes the generated html would be located at _build/singlehtml/index.html

make singlehtml
cd _build/singlehtml/
pandoc -o index.docx index.html