From 2b6732519ec6931d6eb33194744d9aeee85fabde Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Joel Nothman <joel.nothman@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2017 18:34:06 +1100
Subject: [PATCH] Automatically load autosummary

Fix #141
---
 doc/install.rst      | 4 ++--
 numpydoc/numpydoc.py | 2 ++
 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/doc/install.rst b/doc/install.rst
index d408189c..5658dbba 100644
--- a/doc/install.rst
+++ b/doc/install.rst
@@ -9,8 +9,8 @@ The extension is available from:
 * `numpydoc on GitHub <https://github.com/numpy/numpydoc/>`_
 
 'numpydoc' should be added to the ``extensions`` option in your Sphinx
-``conf.py``.
-
+``conf.py``. (Note that `sphinx.ext.autosummary` will automatically be loaded
+as well.)
 
 Sphinx config options
 =====================
diff --git a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
index 26abd66a..0a6cc79c 100644
--- a/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
+++ b/numpydoc/numpydoc.py
@@ -151,6 +151,8 @@ def setup(app, get_doc_object_=get_doc_object):
     app.add_domain(NumpyPythonDomain)
     app.add_domain(NumpyCDomain)
 
+    app.setup_extension('sphinx.ext.autosummary')
+
     metadata = {'version': __version__,
                 'parallel_read_safe': True}
     return metadata