MyST Markdown Tools

MyST is an ecosystem of open-source, community-driven tools designed for scientific communication, including a powerful authoring framework that supports blogs, online books, scientific papers, reports and journals articles. Get up and running with MyST with the following quickstart tutorials:

Install MyST πŸ‘©β€πŸ’»

Start here to get up and running with the myst command-line tools.

Create a website like this one 🌎

Learn the basics of customizing a MyST Website, including sharing frontmatter between pages.

Create Scientific Publications πŸ“‘

Learn the basics of MyST Markdown, and export to a Word document, PDF, and LaTeX\LaTeX!

MyST Markdown Guide πŸ“–

See an overview of MyST Markdown syntax with inline demos and examples.

Coming from JupyterBook or Sphinx?

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There are many ways that mystjs can be used with JupyterBook and Sphinx. We recommend that you read background on mystjs, which goes over how these projects overlap and work together!

TL;DR
Yes, you can use mystjs with your JupyterBook! mystjs can create scientific PDFs and can natively read the _toc.yml as well as all of your existing MyST Markdown content and Jupyter Notebooks.
Yes, mystjs is compatible with even though it is written in Javascript not Python!
JupyterBook and mystjs have overlap in the ability to create online books like this one. mystjs has some extra capabilities for cross-references, interactivity and performance.

Project GoalsΒΆ

mystjs is part of the Executable Books organization, and is an open-source, community-driven project to improve scientific communication, including integrations into Jupyter Notebooks and computational results.

Technical Goals

Architecture

The mystjs command line tool can be used to parse MyST Markdown and Jupyter Notebooks into an AST. This data can be saved as JSON, or rendered to a website (like this one!) or any number of formats including PDF & LaTeX\LaTeX, Word, React, or JATS.

Using Sphinx or Python?

For integration with Sphinx, use the Python implementation for MyST or JupyterBook, which can be found at:

Although many tools in the MyST Ecosystem follow the same conventions and specification, the following documentation refers only to the Javascript MyST CLI.