Hyperlink to Pluto notebook

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Hi all,

In Jupyter, it is possible to link one notebook to another using relative paths. However, this does not appear to work with Pluto. Here is what I tried:

md"""
# [my link]("my_notebook.jl")
"""

The linked page said “not found”.

How can I link to another notebook?

2

you can do

md"""
[my_link](./open?path=my_notebook.jl)
"""
3

@lungben, thank you. This is really close to what I need. I need to specify a path relative to the current working directory. Unfortunately, my attempts to modify your code did not work. Here is what I did:

path = pwd()
md"""
[my_link](./open?path=$(path)/my_notebook.jl)
"""

Error:
Please check whether /home/dfish/.julia/pluto_notebooks/$(path)/my_notebook.jl exists.

Is there a way to interpolate the path variable? I thought that $() would work.

4

String interpolation seems not to work inside a hyperlink with the md macro.
But you can do

notebook_path= joinpath(pwd(), "my_notebook.jl")

Markdown.parse("[my_link](./open?path=$notebook_path)")
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Thanks @lungben. Do you know of a way to suppress Markdown.parse from printing in the markdown?

Here is what I did:

	md"""
	Click on this link
	Markdown.parse("[my_link](./open?path=$notebook_path)").  More info
	"""

And it outputs the following:

Click on this link Markdown.parse("my_link"). More info

Also the link does not work. The link does work if I use Markdown.parse by itself in a separate cell.

6

Write Markdown.parse() as Julia code, not in a md"" string block.

7

I was hoping to integrate the link into some text. Is that not possible?

8

You can put your whole text inside of Markdown.parse(). It essentially does the same as the md string macro (in fact, md internally calls Markdown.parse()), except that it takes a “normal” string as input, where interpolation works slightly different than in the md string macro.

9

Ah. I understand now. Thank you for your help!

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