# Literate.jl announcement

**URL:** <https://discourse.julialang.org/t/literate-jl-announcement/10651>\
**Category:** Package Announcements\
**Created:** [May 2, 2018, 9:31am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/literate-jl-announcement/10651 "2018-05-02T09:31:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![piever](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/julialang/user_avatar/discourse.julialang.org/piever/32/1815_2.png) [@piever](https://discourse.julialang.org/u/piever)\
**Post date:** [May 16, 2018, 9:29am UTC](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/literate-jl-announcement/10651/39 "2018-05-16T09:29:49Z")

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> [@fredrikekre](#):
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> Yea, that is planned. I just need a plotting library that works without hassle on Travis

Plots with the GR backend works on Travis without much setup (it does throw a fair amount of warnings during the Travis build but they seem harmless) and is able to save plots as pngs. [Here](http://juliadb.org/latest/api/plotting.html) there’s an example (and [here](https://github.com/JuliaComputing/JuliaDB.jl/blob/master/docs/src/api/plotting.md) is the corresponding markdown).

> [@fredrikekre](#):
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> So the main thing you think is lacking is the ability to execute code and include the result in the markdown file (i.e. without setting up Documenter)?

Of course I can’t speak for other people but I personally think that it would be a very neat feature to be able to do that. There are some use cases of generating a markdown from a Julia scripts that do not belong to the documentation of a package:

- Hugo/Jekyll to create a blog post
- Remark to create a slideshow (see [this discussion](https://discourse.julialang.org/t/creating-presentation-slides-using-remark-js/10284)).

I’m not sure I understand Literate well enough to contribute on the “execute code in the markdown” part, but once that exists I’ll be happy to contribute the integration with Remark to create slideshows (should actually be pretty straightforward).

EDIT: added [here](https://github.com/piever/Remark.jl) a tiny Remark.jl package to create the presentation from the markdown.

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