Sync sphinx build config with ndn-cxx, improve README.md

Change-Id: Ib47bbe35f41b3a23523c0f66d7e5f321d7f82c2e
diff --git a/manpages/conf.py b/manpages/conf.py
index 18c5985..bb5132f 100644
--- a/manpages/conf.py
+++ b/manpages/conf.py
@@ -1,18 +1,70 @@
-# General information about the project.
-project = u'NDN Essential Tools'
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
+#
+# Configuration file for the Sphinx documentation builder.
+#
+# This file only contains a selection of the most common options. For a full
+# list see the documentation:
+# http://www.sphinx-doc.org/en/master/config
 
+# -- Path setup --------------------------------------------------------------
+
+# If extensions (or modules to document with autodoc) are in another directory,
+# add these directories to sys.path here. If the directory is relative to the
+# documentation root, use os.path.abspath to make it absolute, like shown here.
+#
+# import os
+# import sys
+# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
+
+
+# -- Project information -----------------------------------------------------
+
+project = u'NDN Essential Tools'
+copyright = u'Copyright © 2014-2019 Named Data Networking Project.'
+author = u'Named Data Networking Project'
+
+# The short X.Y version
+#version = ''
+
+# The full version, including alpha/beta/rc tags
+#release = ''
+
+# There are two options for replacing |today|: either, you set today to some
+# non-false value, then it is used:
+#today = ''
+# Else, today_fmt is used as the format for a strftime call.
+today_fmt = '%Y-%m-%d'
+
+
+# -- General configuration ---------------------------------------------------
+
+# If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
+#
+needs_sphinx = '1.1'
+
+# Add any Sphinx extension module names here, as strings. They can be
+# extensions coming with Sphinx (named 'sphinx.ext.*') or your custom
+# ones.
+extensions = [
+]
+
+# The master toctree document.
 master_doc = 'index'
 
-# -- Options for manual page output ---------------------------------------
+
+# -- Options for manual page output ------------------------------------------
 
 # One entry per manual page. List of tuples
 # (source start file, name, description, authors, manual section).
 man_pages = [
-    ('ndnpeek', 'ndnpeek', 'simple consumer to send one Interest and expect one Data', None, 1),
-    ('ndnpoke', 'ndnpoke', 'simple producer to publish one Data', None, 1),
-    ('ndnping', 'ndnping', 'reachability testing client', None, 1),
-    ('ndnpingserver', 'ndnpingserver', 'reachability testing server', None, 1),
-    ('ndndump', 'ndndump', 'traffic analysis tool', None, 8),
-    ('ndnputchunks', 'ndnputchunks', 'producer program with content segmentation', None, 1),
-    ('ndn-dissect', 'ndn-dissect', 'NDN packet format inspector', None, 1),
+    ('ndnpeek',         'ndnpeek',          'simple consumer to send one Interest and expect one Data', [], 1),
+    ('ndnpoke',         'ndnpoke',          'simple producer to publish one Data',          [], 1),
+    ('ndnping',         'ndnping',          'reachability testing client',                  [], 1),
+    ('ndnpingserver',   'ndnpingserver',    'reachability testing server',                  [], 1),
+    ('ndnputchunks',    'ndnputchunks',     'producer program with content segmentation',   [], 1),
+    ('ndndump',         'ndndump',          'traffic analysis tool',                        [], 8),
+    ('ndn-dissect',     'ndn-dissect',      'NDN packet format inspector',                  [], 1),
 ]
+
+# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
+#man_show_urls = True