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 MIT License
 
-Copyright (c) 2022 IIASA
+Copyright (c) 2021-2023 IIASA
 
 Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy
 of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal
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 # A template repo for IIASA Python projects
 
-Copyright (c) 2021 IIASA
+Copyright (c) 2021-2023 IIASA
 
 ![License](https://img.shields.io/github/license/iiasa/python-stub)
 [![Code style: black](https://img.shields.io/badge/code%20style-black-000000.svg)](https://github.com/psf/black)
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+Building the docs
+==================
+
+We use Sphinx and restructured text (rst) for building the documentation pages.
+
+Writing in Restructured Text
+----------------------------
+
+There are a number of guides to get started, for example
+on [sourceforge](https://docutils.sourceforge.io/docs/user/rst/quickref.html).
+
+Building the documentation pages
+--------------------------------
+
+On *nix, from the command line, run::
+
+    make html
+
+On Windows, from the command line, run::
+
+    ./make.bat
+
+The rendered html pages will be located in `doc/build/html/index.html`.
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