# Linking to a markdown document

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947>\
**Category:** General Usage\
**Tags:** question\
**Created:** [August 8, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947 "2024-08-08T09:29:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 8\
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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/1 "2024-08-08T09:29:05Z")

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Is it possible to link to a mark-down document that just shows the document and not the Github menu etc?

For example, I would like to find a way to show this document:  
[Installation of Julia](https://github.com/aenarete/KiteSimulators.jl/blob/main/docs/Installation.md)

using an internet link and display only the document content.

Is that possible, and if yes, how?

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/2 "2024-08-08T14:40:56Z")

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Yep!

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/original/3X/d/0/d0b1608edfbc5fb28dde7e1c4303bbdef027ed1c.png)

[https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aenarete/KiteSimulators.jl/main/docs/Installation.md](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aenarete/KiteSimulators.jl/main/docs/Installation.md)

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:56pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/3 "2024-08-08T14:56:06Z")

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Well, but that is not rendered…

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Emanuel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeff_emanuel/32/15440_2.png) [@Jeff\_Emanuel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jeff_Emanuel)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 2:59pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/4 "2024-08-08T14:59:38Z")

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You can either pre-render it and save that as an html file that you link to, or you can setup github pages with markdown rendering: [Setting a Markdown processor for your GitHub Pages site using Jekyll - GitHub Docs](https://docs.github.com/en/pages/setting-up-a-github-pages-site-with-jekyll/setting-a-markdown-processor-for-your-github-pages-site-using-jekyll). You can probably setup the latter to use your markdown file in your repo directly so changes are immediately visible without any extra rendering step.

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**Author:** ![kevbonham](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/kevbonham/32/216165_2.png) [@kevbonham](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/kevbonham)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 3:06pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/5 "2024-08-08T15:06:25Z")

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Oh, I misunderstood. AFAIK there’s no way to get a plain rendered markdown without doing something like @Jeff_Emanuel suggests.

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**Author:** ![Jeff\_Emanuel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/jeff_emanuel/32/15440_2.png) [@Jeff\_Emanuel](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/Jeff_Emanuel)\
**Post date:** [August 8, 2024, 4:30pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/6 "2024-08-08T16:30:10Z")

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On further inspection, I don’t see a way for a github pages repo to reference directly the markdown file from the code repository. You could use a github action to render the markdown.

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**Author:** ![cjdoris](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/cjdoris/32/213133_2.png) [@cjdoris](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/cjdoris)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 12:10pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/7 "2024-08-09T12:10:01Z")

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Here’s a nifty website that will render markdown files from across the internet for you: [Docsify-This | A Lightweight Markdown Open Publishing Tool](https://docsify-this.net/?basePath=https://raw.githubusercontent.com/aenarete/KiteSimulators.jl/main/docs&homepage=Installation.md#/)

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**Author:** ![ufechner7](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/ufechner7/32/51363_2.png) [@ufechner7](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/ufechner7)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2024, 12:41pm UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/linking-to-a-markdown-document/117947/8 "2024-08-09T12:41:42Z")

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Your post was a little bit late, I already put this document on my blog: [Installing Julia 1.10 and VSCode | Julia programming notes](https://ufechner7.github.io/2024/08/09/installing-julia-with-juliaup.html)