FAB-7892 Add markdown capability to documentation

add license headers to changed files

Change-Id: I1e7bdf4b655c35392e80ef88ca93a7dd4b0befe0
Signed-off-by: Anthony O'Dowd <a_o-dowd@uk.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Christopher Ferris <chrisfer@us.ibm.com>

Author: ODOWDAIBM

docs/requirements.txt

@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
 python-markdown-math==0.2
 
 alabaster==0.7.8
@@ -12,3 +13,4 @@ six==1.10.0
 snowballstemmer==1.2.1
 Sphinx==1.4.4
 sphinx-rtd-theme==0.1.9
+recommonmark==0.4.0

docs/source/conf.py

@@ -1,5 +1,7 @@
 # -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 #
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: Apache-2.0
+#
 # hyperledger-fabricdocs documentation build configuration file, created by
 # sphinx-quickstart on Mon Feb 20 16:11:53 2017.
 #
@@ -43,11 +45,20 @@
 # Add any paths that contain templates here, relative to this directory.
 templates_path = ['_templates']
 
+# recommonmark is a python utility that allows markdown to be used within
+# Sphinx projects.
+# Installed version as per directive in docs/requirement.txt
+from recommonmark.parser import CommonMarkParser
+
+source_parsers = {
+    '.md': CommonMarkParser,
+}
+
 # The suffix(es) of source filenames.
 # You can specify multiple suffix as a list of string:
 #
 # source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
-source_suffix = '.rst'
+source_suffix = ['.rst', '.md']
 
 # The master toctree document.
 master_doc = 'index'