diff --git a/docs/README.rst b/docs/README.rst
index 0a343cd19..0b7afa548 100644
--- a/docs/README.rst
+++ b/docs/README.rst
@@ -57,3 +57,12 @@ There is a way to recreate the doc automatically when you make changes, you
 need to install watchdog (``pip install watchdog``) and then use::
 
     make watch
+
+Alternative method using tox
+----------------------------
+
+To compile the documentation to HTML run the following command::
+
+    tox -e docs
+
+Documentation will be generated (in HTML format) inside the ``.tox/docs/tmp/html`` dir.