Introduction

To use MyST you need to install myst-parser and enable it in Sphinx’s conf.py:

extensions = ["myst_parser"]

Configuration

A number of plugins can be enabled to extend the default syntax. The way to enable them is to add them to the myst_enable_extensions list in conf.py.

Some of them will be addressed in the syntax section but others are:

• "smartquotes": converts standard quotes to their opening/closing variants

• "linkify": convert bare URLs in hyperlinks

All of them are in the MyST docs