Can we support papers submitted in markdown?

[deniederhut]

Kyle Niemeyer suggested that we consider accepting papers written in markdown, to lower the barrier of entry for people who only write restructured text once a year, which is the time they are submitting papers to SciPy. Can we learn from JOSS's publishing model and support papers in markdown?

[astrojuanlu]

MyST supports the same directives and roles as reST, perhaps it's worth looking into it https://mystyc.herokuapp.com/

[stefanv]

myst-parser can produce a docutils AST, so should be possible: https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/apidocs/myst_parser/myst_parser.mdit_to_docutils.html