Markdown in Pluto

Markdown is the easiest way to write text in Pluto notebooks. With Markdown, you can write text with bold, italic, and other formatting, and you can use it to add titles, lists, images, and more.

You use markdown with the md""" string macro inside a Pluto cell:

md"""
This text is in **bold** and _italic_.
"""

This is what that looks like in the notebook:

Complete guide

Read more about Markdown in Pluto here:

Keyboard shortcut

When editing a cell, you can press Cmd+M or Ctrl+M to automatically add or remove the md""" string macro.

Julia cells and Markdown cells

Some notebook environments have different cell types: a code cell and a Markdown cell. In Pluto, there is only one cell type: a Julia cell. But you can use the Julia string macro md" to write Markdown inside of Julia! 🤯

Markdown syntax

The library that provides the md" macro is the Julia standard library (stdlib) Markdown. This library might work a bit differently from the Markdown that you are used to in GitHub, Jupyter, or elsewhere.

Other Markdown libraries

The Markdown stdlib is usinged by default in Pluto, but you are free to use other Markdown libraries. You can also use something other than Markdown, like HTML (with HypertextLiteral.jl).

Some other Markdown libraries that you can use in Pluto:

• CommonMark.jl
• MarkdownLiteral.jl