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jupyter-book / mystmd

Command line tools for working with MyST Markdown.
https://mystmd.org/guide
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Linking to a cell by cell ID #518

Open krassowski opened 1 year ago

krassowski commented 1 year ago

JupyterLab and nbconvert allow users to link to a specific cell by it's ID by using hash fragment like #cell-id=my-cell-id where my-cell-id is an example cell ID. JupyterBook nor MyST-NB does not support it yet (https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-NB/issues/310) although a pull request is open (https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-NB/pull/519).

Given that there is a new notebook parser in this repository, I wonder if it could facilitate implementation of such a feature.

Proposal

Adopt the same hash fragment scheme for HTML output as other projects.

Additional notes

It appears that support for a kind of cell IDs was implemented in https://github.com/executablebooks/mystmd/pull/361 but using a different scheme: nb-cell-0-code (and nb-cell-0-output for output). It appears that cell index was used there instead of cell ID which would not be a stable identifier when user moves cells around. For that I would propose using #cell-index=0 format where 0 represents first cell (whether 0- or 1-based). Also, please note that in Jupyter notebooks any single cell may have multiple outputs, so cell ID cannot identify output (but barely a list of outputs).

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krassowski commented 10 months ago

@rowanc1 would you be open to a pull request?

krassowski commented 8 months ago

Just checking back here :eyes:

rowanc1 commented 4 months ago

Thanks @krassowski, always happy for a PR we can also look to your implementation in https://github.com/executablebooks/MyST-NB/pull/519. The IDs are also involved in how we identify and replace outputs in thebe, and our default htmlIds do not currently allow =. We should also likely check that the IDs provided by the ipynb are not duplicated.