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 a Conda environment (recommended):
conda install -c conda-forge myst-parser
or
pip install myst-parser
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.
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