Chris Sewell

See https://github.com/jupyter/nbclient/pull/79#issuecomment-667543868

> It seems like a workable step could be to convert the cell type to "raw", pass to nbclient, then convert back when it is returned Well let's wait while...

I'm guessing that maybe you haven't quite understood the Markdown-to-Notebook mapping yet 😬 You don't use the `{code-cell}` annotation in a notebook, that gets converted to a notebook cell before...

> If I understand, the use of sphinx directives should be avoided in notebooks? No they can, Markdown is parsed **exactly** the same, by jupyter-book, in notebooks cells as it...

FYI on this, https://github.com/jupyter/nbclient/pull/151 is now merged, so once a new version of nblient is out, you will be able to use the `skip-execution` tag 😄

This is now available from `nbcient>=0.5.5` (https://github.com/jupyter/nbclient/compare/0.5.4...0.5.5) I believe this is installable with latest jupyter-book (it should be only jupyter-cache pinning nbclient: https://github.com/executablebooks/jupyter-cache/blob/7917c680f97af055ac60fca345822d092f1d3d6e/setup.cfg#L32) So closing this issue then should just...

> I think there are three things we want to do as part of this: well I would also add to this, a major thing is how to update the...

We can talk about it today/tomorrow at euroscipy 😄 (be there at 11). But I think it's a balance, between doing something, and making it so this is (a) a...

Hi @adamgayoso have you considered looking at https://github.com/executablebooks/sphinx-book-theme, which we designed specifically to have these kind of features at the theme level, i.e. as shown in the documentation here https://myst-nb.readthedocs.io/en/latest/render/format_code_cells.html...

Its not out of the question, thinking about a prolog feature, but I don't really like the way it is in nbsphinx, it just adds a lot of bloat to...