diff --git a/doc/conf.py b/doc/conf.py
index d3dfdf8c32aaa0a8accc8e56d050afc311a8f2b2..fed5a60a94be41171fcb16b97fc36bd041fb4af1 100644
--- a/doc/conf.py
+++ b/doc/conf.py
@@ -1,22 +1,3 @@
-from __future__ import absolute_import
-# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
-#
-# modepy documentation build configuration file, created by
-# sphinx-quickstart on Wed May  8 10:11:39 2013.
-#
-# This file is execfile()d with the current directory set to its containing dir.
-#
-# Note that not all possible configuration values are present in this
-# autogenerated file.
-#
-# All configuration values have a default; values that are commented out
-# serve to show the default.
-
-# 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.
-# sys.path.insert(0, os.path.abspath('.'))
-
 # -- General configuration -----------------------------------------------------
 
 # If your documentation needs a minimal Sphinx version, state it here.
@@ -101,121 +82,9 @@ html_theme = "furo"
 html_theme_options = {
         }
 
-# Theme options are theme-specific and customize the look and feel of a theme
-# further.  For a list of options available for each theme, see the
-# documentation.
-# html_theme_options = {}
-
-# Add any paths that contain custom themes here, relative to this directory.
-# html_theme_path = []
-
-# The name for this set of Sphinx documents.  If None, it defaults to
-# "<project> v<release> documentation".
-# html_title = None
-
-# A shorter title for the navigation bar.  Default is the same as html_title.
-# html_short_title = None
-
-# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top
-# of the sidebar.
-# html_logo = None
-
-# The name of an image file (within the static path) to use as favicon of the
-# docs.  This file should be a Windows icon file (.ico) being 16x16 or 32x32
-# pixels large.
-# html_favicon = None
-
-# Add any paths that contain custom static files (such as style sheets) here,
-# relative to this directory. They are copied after the builtin static files,
-# so a file named "default.css" will overwrite the builtin "default.css".
-# html_static_path = ['_static']
-
-# If not '', a "Last updated on:" timestamp is inserted at every page bottom,
-# using the given strftime format.
-# html_last_updated_fmt = '%b %d, %Y'
-
-# If true, SmartyPants will be used to convert quotes and dashes to
-# typographically correct entities.
-# html_use_smartypants = True
-
-# Custom sidebar templates, maps document names to template names.
-# html_sidebars = {}
-
-# Additional templates that should be rendered to pages, maps page names to
-# template names.
-# html_additional_pages = {}
-
-# If false, no module index is generated.
-# html_domain_indices = True
-
-# If false, no index is generated.
-# html_use_index = True
-
-# If true, the index is split into individual pages for each letter.
-# html_split_index = False
-
 # If true, links to the reST sources are added to the pages.
 # html_show_sourcelink = True
 
-# If true, "Created using Sphinx" is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-# html_show_sphinx = True
-
-# If true, "(C) Copyright ..." is shown in the HTML footer. Default is True.
-# html_show_copyright = True
-
-# If true, an OpenSearch description file will be output, and all pages will
-# contain a <link> tag referring to it.  The value of this option must be the
-# base URL from which the finished HTML is served.
-# html_use_opensearch = ''
-
-# This is the file name suffix for HTML files (e.g. ".xhtml").
-# html_file_suffix = None
-
-# Output file base name for HTML help builder.
-htmlhelp_basename = "modepydoc"
-
-
-# -- Options for LaTeX output --------------------------------------------------
-
-latex_elements = {
-        # The paper size ("letterpaper" or "a4paper").
-        # "papersize": "letterpaper",
-
-        # The font size ("10pt", "11pt" or "12pt").
-        # "pointsize": "10pt",
-
-        # Additional stuff for the LaTeX preamble.
-        # "preamble": '',
-}
-
-# Grouping the document tree into LaTeX files. List of tuples
-# (source start file, target name, title, author, documentclass [howto/manual]).
-latex_documents = [
-        ("index", "modepy.tex", u"modepy Documentation",
-            u"Andreas Kloeckner, Tim Warburton, Jan Hesthaven", "manual"),
-]
-
-# The name of an image file (relative to this directory) to place at the top of
-# the title page.
-# latex_logo = None
-
-# For "manual" documents, if this is true, then toplevel headings are parts,
-# not chapters.
-# latex_use_parts = False
-
-# If true, show page references after internal links.
-# latex_show_pagerefs = False
-
-# If true, show URL addresses after external links.
-# latex_show_urls = False
-
-# Documents to append as an appendix to all manuals.
-# latex_appendices = []
-
-# If false, no module index is generated.
-# latex_domain_indices = True
-
-
 # Example configuration for intersphinx: refer to the Python standard library.
 intersphinx_mapping = {
         "https://docs.python.org/3/": None,
@@ -225,3 +94,4 @@ intersphinx_mapping = {
         }
 
 autoclass_content = "class"
+autodoc_typehints = "description"