# Has anyone added a MyST markdown extension to Julia?

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-anyone-added-a-myst-markdown-extension-to-julia/83289>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question, package\
**Created:** [June 24, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-anyone-added-a-myst-markdown-extension-to-julia/83289 "2022-06-24T02:54:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![cadojo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cadojo/32/25328_2.png) [@cadojo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cadojo)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2022, 2:54am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-anyone-added-a-myst-markdown-extension-to-julia/83289/1 "2022-06-24T02:54:05Z")

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The good folks over at Executable Books have developed a new markdown flavor which adds support for function-like operations, citations, custom labeling, and more. The new markdown flavor is called [MyST](https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/).

Is this available in Julia yet? I don’t think so, because I’ve done a bit of searching and haven’t found anything yet, but I wanted to check here just in case.

To be clear, I’m hoping to do something like the following…

```julia
julia> using MyST

...

julia> mst"{cite}`my-citation`
"A. Einstein 2047"

```

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**Author:** ![cadojo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cadojo/32/25328_2.png) [@cadojo](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cadojo)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2022, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-anyone-added-a-myst-markdown-extension-to-julia/83289/2 "2022-06-26T04:51:55Z")

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I’m working on it! Thanks to the good folks at Executable Books, `PyCall.jl`, and Julia’s various `MIME` formats, this is super easy to build.

Standby for `MyST.jl`… I’ll make a post once it’s working!

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**Author:** ![Ahmed\_Salih](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ahmed_salih/32/206579_2.png) [@Ahmed\_Salih](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Ahmed_Salih)\
**Post date:** [October 23, 2023, 5:52pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-anyone-added-a-myst-markdown-extension-to-julia/83289/3 "2023-10-23T17:52:28Z")

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> [@cadojo](#):
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> MyST.jl

Any updates?

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**Author:** ![David\_Sagan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/david_sagan/32/33792_2.png) [@David\_Sagan](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/David_Sagan)\
**Post date:** [June 23, 2025, 9:01pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/has-anyone-added-a-myst-markdown-extension-to-julia/83289/4 "2025-06-23T21:01:22Z")

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Yes a bridge between MyST and Julia would be wonderful. You have my vote.