What is the status of this project?

[tavin]

Hi folks, just wondering, if this is being retired in favor of markdown-it-myst should this be noted on the front page?

Perhaps more importantly, if markdown-it-myst is used instead of this, what's the rendering solution? I can't figure out if there's another package that provides rendering, or if markdown-it-docutils is still the answer for now, or else what I'm supposed to do in my project.

Thank you.

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[rowanc1]

Thanks @tavin -- I left a bit of an answer here: jupyter-book/mystmd#181

I think that this package is still the (easiest) answer for the use case you are looking for (rendering myst and rendering with markdown-it). The packages in the mystjs repo are not direct replacements for the markdown-it rendering path at this time.

[tavin]

Thanks @rowanc1 good to know.

I wanted to add myst support in tiddlywiki as wished by @sneakers-the-rat in https://github.com/orgs/executablebooks/discussions/978.

Right now it looks like markdown-it-docutils is the only realistic way. But obviously it's falling behind the mystjs implementation. One can live without sphinx proof (if there's a way to simulate it with custom admonitions), however things like this and this are still broken.

I wonder if I can get your buy-in on continuing to accept maintenance patches in this project? Also I think it's hard, given a web-first use case, to accept a roadblock on certain features because sphinx would ignore them in a pdf build.

The alternative is I think to really archive this project and close the markdown-it-myst gap.