# How to print markdown in the terminal
**URL:** https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397
**Category:** General Usage
**Tags:** question
**Created:** [June 8, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397 "2022-06-08T01:36:48Z")
**Posts on this page:** 15
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 1:36am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/1 "2022-06-08T01:36:48Z")
I want to print styled markdown with colors and etc (the same way the REPL prints docs), instead of the raw text. So far i wasn’t able to figure out, i was thinking something like:
```julia
show(stdout, MIME"text/markdown", some_markdown)
```
But the above does not work.
Thanks in advance.
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### Author:  [@TheCedarPrince](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/TheCedarPrince)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 2:27am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/2 "2022-06-08T02:27:19Z")
@dylanxyz - the most advanced rendering I have seen in the Julia REPL comes from [Home · Term.jl](https://fedeclaudi.github.io/Term.jl/stable/) - I don’t know of anything that prints styled markdown-like text in the REPL, but I think this tool is probably the best shot to do something like what you imagine.
P.S. @FedeClaudi is the author and is super active about the project!
CC’ing him to see this.
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 2:42am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/3 "2022-06-08T02:42:33Z")
`Term.jl` is a awesome package, however i could not find markdown related stuff when searching through the docs.
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 5:48am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/4 "2022-06-08T05:48:34Z")
This will show up as styled Markdown text in the terminal (or in Jupyter, Pluto, etc.)
```nohighlight
julia> using Markdown
julia> md"Some **bold** text"
Some bold text
julia> Markdown.parse("Some **bold** text.")
Some bold text.
```
That being said, it would be nice to support `display("text/markdown", "Some **bold** text")` in the REPL (this is already supported in e.g. Jupyter/IJulia).
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### Author:  [@FedeClaudi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/FedeClaudi)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 8:20am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/5 "2022-06-08T08:20:05Z")
Hey, the developer of Term here (thanks for the shotout @TheCedarPrince)
@dylanxyz that’s right, Term doesn’t currently support Markdown, but it should be a nice and easy feature to add. Python’s rich libray [has it](https://github.com/Textualize/rich/blob/master/rich/markdown.py), all you need is to parse the markdown text into tokens (header, bullet point list…) and then use those to crate a styled text using Term’s markup syntax. Julia has [markdown parsing](https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/stdlib/Markdown/src/parse/parse.jl#L79) so it should be pretty easy.
I’d be happy to work on it together if you want to help implement this, otherwise I will add it to the things to add to Term (finishing a coupe other features first)
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 4:09pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/6 "2022-06-08T16:09:15Z")
This is what i want, but how to make this work outside the REPL?
```bash
> julia -e 'using Markdown; md"`Hello` *world*" |> println'
`Hello` *world*
```
As you can see, only the raw text is printed.
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 4:11pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/7 "2022-06-08T16:11:16Z")
This would be a awesome feature to support!
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### Author:  [@stevengj](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/stevengj)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 5:49pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/8 "2022-06-08T17:49:14Z")
> [@dylanxyz](#):
>
> This is what i want, but how to make this work outside the REPL?
```julia
julia -e 'using Markdown; md"`Hello` *world*" |> display'
```
(`print` by definition only writes the plain text `show` output.)
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 6:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/9 "2022-06-08T18:10:19Z")
Thank you! I was unaware of the `display` function.
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### Author:  [@FedeClaudi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/FedeClaudi)
#### Post date: [June 8, 2022, 10:50pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/10 "2022-06-08T22:50:51Z")
Term.jl will have a markdown parser in the next version: [Term.jl/markdown.jl at v4 · FedeClaudi/Term.jl · GitHub](https://github.com/FedeClaudi/Term.jl/blob/v4/src/markdown.jl)
stay tuned!
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2022, 1:08am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/11 "2022-06-09T01:08:15Z")
@FedeClaudi For now the `display` function works for me, but i’ll definitely use the `Term.jl` version once is ready 😄.
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### Author:  [@FedeClaudi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/FedeClaudi)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 9:59am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/12 "2022-06-10T09:59:29Z")
No problem, this is what it’s going to look like though 😃 [https://twitter.com/Federico\_claudi/status/1535034402018934784?s=20&t=ZUI796ZIWamwS-ZDeL8A5w](https://twitter.com/Federico_claudi/status/1535034402018934784?s=20&t=ZUI796ZIWamwS-ZDeL8A5w)
Uploading: image.png(1)…
I can give you a shout once it comes out if you’d like.
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2022, 12:17pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/13 "2022-06-10T12:17:57Z")
Awesome! I would appreciate 🙏.
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### Author:  [@FedeClaudi](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/FedeClaudi)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2022, 10:06am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/14 "2022-06-20T10:06:34Z")
Term.jl v1.0 is out with new Markdown parsing functionality: [Markdown · Term.jl](https://fedeclaudi.github.io/Term.jl/stable/adv/markdown/)
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### Author:  [@dylanxyz](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/dylanxyz)
#### Post date: [June 20, 2022, 11:24am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/how-to-print-markdown-in-the-terminal/82397/15 "2022-06-20T11:24:50Z")
That’s so cool, thanks for your work 🙏!