Writing using Notebooks

This section looks at using Notebooks as the source file for writing lecture content.

Note

jupyter notebooks are capable of storing extended myst syntax in markdown cells but can’t currently render directives and roles natively. These items are rendered using jupyter-book as it builds html or pdf files.

Building using Jupyter Book

You can write lectures directly in Jupyter Notebooks. While notebooks can’t render the full MyST syntax it is happy to store the markup as markdown without syntax highlighting support. This will get parsed when the notebook is read by jupyter book when building the html or pdf files.

There is no special configuration required you can:

1. write a notebook

2. add the notebook name to the _toc.yml file such as markov without the ipynb

3. use jupyter-book build lecture or jupyter-book build ./ if you are already in a project folder.

Tip

You can actually use both ipynb and md in the same project. You can prototype in jupyter notebooks and the convert them over to md at the end for easy maintenance and version control.

Converting to Myst Markdown

You can also easily convert ipynb to md using jupytext