Makdown cells

[ratepenado]

Hello,
Is there any plan to have specific markdown cells like one can find in jupyterlab ?

Thanks !

[disberd]

What would be the advantage to a cell wrapped in md"""""""?

[ratepenado]

A better interface to write markdown. You can see the difference with jupyter in these two screenshots: https://aws1.discourse-cdn.com/business5/uploads/julialang/original/3X/1/0/10943cf951784bc4790225a47a47f9256a3c0b56.png and https://www.earthdatascience.org/images/courses/earth-analytics/bootcamp/jupyter-interface/change-cell-type.png

[disberd]

Unfortunately both of your image links lead me to a github 404 not found :(

Edit: I notice now that the hyperlinks associated to the urls text are wrong and not matching the URL names you linked, copying instead of clicking works.

This pull request #1533 seems to provide the automatic markdown synthax highlighting within md"" blocks as you seem to have in the linked picture

[ratepenado]

sorry ! I probably inverted url and url names.

[dralletje]

We've successfully avoided cell types so far 🙃

First we want to explore how far we can get with having the formatting like you shown in the jupyter screenshot, but inside the md"""...""" blocks. This is harder to do right, but if we do it right it will be very cool.

Sure, cell types are also a possibility. Actually Observablehq has a pretty nice UI for that at the moment.