Books with Jupyter - The Executable Book Project
Jupyter Book is an open source project for building beautiful, publication-quality books and documents from computational material.
Here are some of the features of Jupyter Book:
Write publication-quality content in markdown You can write in either Jupyter markdown, or an extended flavor of markdown with publishing features. This includes support for rich syntax such as citations and cross-references, math and equations, and figures.
Write content in Jupyter Notebooks This allows you to include your code and outputs in your book. You can also write notebooks entirely in markdown to execute when you build your book.
Execute and cache your book’s content For .ipynb and markdown notebooks, execute code and insert the latest outputs into your book. In addition, cache and re-use outputs to be used later.
Insert notebook outputs into your content Generate outputs as you build your documentation, and insert them in-line with your content across pages.
Add interactivity to your book You can toggle cell visibility, include interactive outputs from Jupyter, and connect with online services like Binder.
Generate a variety of outputs This includes single- and multi-page websites, as well as PDF outputs.
Build books with a simple command-line interface You can quickly generate your books with one command, like so: jupyter-book build mybook/
This website is built with Jupyter Book! You can browse its contents to the left to see what is possible.
The Executable Book Project¶
This is the public-facing site for ExecutableBookProject, an international collaboration to build open source tools that facilitate publishing computational narratives using the Jupyter ecosystem
The EBP’s technical goals¶
The goal of the EBP is to build tools that facilitate creating professional computational narratives (books, lecture series, articles, etc.) using open source tools. We want users in the scientific, academic, and data science communities to be able to do the following:
Write their content in either markdown text files, or Jupyter Notebooks. These files include rich content - outputs from running code, references and cross-references, equations, etc. Execute content and cache the results. Intelligent caching means that only modified code cells are re-run. Combine cached outputs with content files with a document model. Using the excellent Sphinx documentation stack, documents can include many features for publishing, such as equations, cross-references, and citations. Build interactive HTML or publication-quality PDF outputs. Sometimes users wish to create rich and interactive websites, other times they want to send a high-quality PDF to a publisher. This system will treat both as equal citizens. Control everything above with a simple command-line interface. Most users should not have to know anything about Sphinx, caching, etc. A simple user interface will hide most of the complexity of this process.