diff --git a/docs/sphinxext/only_directives.py b/docs/sphinxext/only_directives.py
index e4dfd5c..57d70a4 100644
--- a/docs/sphinxext/only_directives.py
+++ b/docs/sphinxext/only_directives.py
@@ -5,9 +5,15 @@
 
 from docutils.nodes import Body, Element
 from docutils.writers.html4css1 import HTMLTranslator
-from sphinx.latexwriter import LaTeXTranslator
 from docutils.parsers.rst import directives
 
+# The sphinx API has changed, so we try both the old and new import forms
+try:
+    from sphinx.latexwriter import LaTeXTranslator
+except ImportError:
+    from sphinx.writers.latex import LaTeXTranslator
+
+
 class html_only(Body, Element):
     pass