7. Notebooks with MyST Markdown#
Jupyter Book also lets you write text-based notebooks using MyST Markdown. See the Notebooks with MyST Markdown documentation for more detailed instructions. This page shows off a notebook written in MyST Markdown.
7.1. An example cell#
With MyST Markdown, you can define code cells with a directive like so:
print(2 + 2)
4
When your book is built, the contents of any {code-cell} blocks will be
executed with your default Jupyter kernel, and their outputs will be displayed
in-line with the rest of your content.
See also
Jupyter Book uses Jupytext to convert text-based files to notebooks, and can support many other text-based notebook files.
7.2. Create a notebook with MyST Markdown#
MyST Markdown notebooks are defined by two things:
YAML metadata that is needed to understand if / how it should convert text files to notebooks (including information about the kernel needed). See the YAML at the top of this page for example.
The presence of
{code-cell}directives, which will be executed with your book.
That’s all that is needed to get started!
7.3. Quickly add YAML metadata for MyST Notebooks#
If you have a markdown file and you’d like to quickly add YAML metadata to it, so that Jupyter Book will treat it as a MyST Markdown Notebook, run the following command:
jupyter-book myst init path/to/markdownfile.md