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Not clear that README.txt should contain a title

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Just spent a while trying to reference the sphinx-gallery index page, and realised that my README.txt file only contained:

Examples

Changing this to

Examples
=======

made everything work as expected - it would be good mention in the docs that the README.txt file should have a title and is eventually interpreted as markup.

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  • State:closed
  • Created 6 years ago
  • Comments:5 (4 by maintainers)

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owlascommented, Jul 4, 2018

It would actually be ideal if the user could configure the name of this file in conf.py. For example, repositories that use readme.md as a convention would rather follow that convention.

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dstansbycommented, Nov 5, 2022
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