Posts tagged markup
What do people think about rST?
- 22 January 2020
Publishing computational narratives has always been a dream of the Jupyter Project, and there is still a lot of work to be done in improving these use-cases. We’ve made a lot of progress in providing open infrastructure for reproducible science with JupyterHub and the Binder Project, but what about the documents themselves? We’ve recently been working on tools like Jupyter Book, which aim to improve the writing and publishing process with the Jupyter ecosystem. This is hopefully the first post of a few that ask how we can best-improve the state of publishing with Jupyter.
Many of the ideas in this post have now made their way into a new flavor of markdown called Markedly Structured Text, or MyST. It brings all of the features of rST into Markdown. Check it out!
Build a simple timeline with sphinx-design
- 22 January 2020
One of the nice things about MyST Markdown is that it is extensible. Any Sphinx extension will work with MyST Markdown (in the context of Jupyter Book, anyway).
One of my favorite Sphinx extensions is Sphinx Design, this brings you flexible UI components that use Bootstrap CSS under the hood (though without heavy javascript). They let you do things like this: