Why should Jupyter magic commands be commented out in Markdown? about jupytext HOT 3 CLOSED

Thanks @lebigot for reporting. May I ask how you render (R) Markdown files? I would have expected users to render .Rmd files with R -e "rmarkdown::render('notebook.Rmd')", which probably does not support Jupyter magics.

For now there's no global option to avoid escaping of magic commands ; if you'd like one we could discuss its specifications. Meanwhile you may find useful to add a #noescape comment on the same line as the magic.

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I was using MacDown, which displays Markdown. As I am not an R user, and since I do not want to install R on my machine just for visualizing something that looks quite standard, this looked like a reasonable approach. :)

Maybe the problem comes from the fact that I was expecting R Markdown to be essentially the same as Markdown, with maybe some distinct meta-data in the header (a quick search didn't yield anything)? In a .md version of a notebook, I would expect the %%magic commands to be displayed just like in the Jupyter notebook.

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@lebigot , the package now offers support for plain markdown documents, cf. #44 . I close this issue, but feedback is welcome !

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