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 There, you can specify which folders contain notebooks, and to where they should be rendered as markdown.
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+#### Rendering jupyter notebooks in this repository
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+By convention, we're putting jupyter notebooks in a `/notebooks` subfolder under each tool (look around for examples). These are then built into the `code/<notebook_name>.md` file by the authodoc.py. So, to add a new notebook:
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+1. put the notebook into a `<module>/notebooks/<notebook_name>.ipynb`
+2. make sure that's listed in the `jupyter` section of the yaml (it already should be there if you're adding a notebook to an existing folder).
+3. link to the notebook in `mkdocs.yaml` by linking to `<module>/code/<notebook_name>.md`.
+4. you can build your rendered markdown version by running `python autodoc.py`.
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