[heisenzombie]

This is interesting, so do you think the JupyterBook solution could/should replace nbconvert?

I was always a bit frustrated by the way nbconvert pulled in pandoc as a dependency, but then didn't make use of any of its power (pandoc surely has a powerful AST). Instead they re-implemented filters and templates themselves. It struck me that it would have been much cleaner to write a proper 'ipynb > AST' Pandoc reader, and then expose pandoc AST filters and templates.

I was a bit suspicious of moving away from pandoc to sphinx, because sphinx seems markedly less powerful and general than pandoc. However, you seem to think it's the opposite! Does Sphinx have an AST? I can't see any reference?

[chrisjsewell]

pandocs AST is actually a little limited, in terms of extensability, because it has to resove to JSON. The scorreia.com/software/panflute/code.html is a good python API for it.

By contrast sphinx uses docutils AST: https://github.com/live-clones/docutils/blob/master/docutils..., the documentation is not great (working on that) but it is pretty powerful.

[fiddlosopher]

In fact, pandoc now does have an ipynb reader and writer. You can convert between ipynb and any of the formats pandoc supports, and you can manipulate the AST using filters.

[chrisjsewell]

Now use that to replicate the example pages here: https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/examples/basic.html... and here https://jupyterbook.org/interactive/launchbuttons.html, and let me know how you get on ;-)

[tikej]

Oh, this is huge for me!

My main concern with jupyter is that I prefer orgmode (and by a lot), but I know that it's niche and most people don't even heard about it ipnbs are preferred form of notebook exchange.

I will check how good translation to/from orgmode is then.

[heisenzombie]

Oh! Thanks! I'll definitely take a look at that!