From a2e309ecfc5b3d0610a89b449cbe5f11ee05f63c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: snailrhymer <61291296+snailrhymer@users.noreply.github.com>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2022 21:04:09 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Add command to build specific files in Building the manual
 with Sphinx (#5828)

---
 community/contributing/building_the_manual.rst | 6 ++++++
 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+)

diff --git a/community/contributing/building_the_manual.rst b/community/contributing/building_the_manual.rst
index 50d00ca86..38c98a12b 100644
--- a/community/contributing/building_the_manual.rst
+++ b/community/contributing/building_the_manual.rst
@@ -82,6 +82,12 @@ program manually:
 
    sphinx-build -b html ./ _build
 
+You can also specify a list of files to build, which can greatly speed up compilation:
+
+.. code:: sh
+
+  sphinx-build -b html ./ _build classes/class_node.rst classes/class_resource.rst
+
 Building with Sphinx and virtualenv
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