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MyST-Parser

MyST is a rich and extensible flavor of Markdown meant for technical documentation and publishing.

MyST is a flavor of markdown that is designed for simplicity, flexibility, and extensibility. This repository serves as the reference implementation of MyST Markdown, as well as a collection of tools to support working with MyST in Python and Sphinx. It contains an extended CommonMark-compliant parser using markdown-it-py, as well as a Sphinx extension that allows you to write MyST Markdown in Sphinx.

See the MyST Parser documentation for more information.

Installation

To install the MyST parser, run the following in aConda environment (recommended):

conda install -c conda-forge myst-parser

or

Or for package development:

git clone https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-Parser cd MyST-Parser git checkout master pip install -e .[code_style,linkify,testing,rtd]

To use the MyST parser in Sphinx, simply add: extensions = ["myst_parser"] to your conf.py.

Contributing

We welcome all contributions! See the Contributing Guide for more details.