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Why curly braces for block-level directives?

See original GitHub issue

This may have been discussed before, but I am curious to know why curly braces are needed for block level directives?

Instead of

```{directivename} <directive arguments>
:optionname: <valuename>

<directive content>


we could have the following which would be lighter while typing.

```directivename <directive arguments>
:optionname: <valuename>

<directive content>

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Created 3 years ago
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echarlescommented, Jul 16, 2020

Yep, I have reloaded RStudio which supports python (Knitr will generate a block text with highlights) vs {python} which will be run.

Closing this issue, sorry for the noise, and thx for your answers.

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choldgrafcommented, Jul 16, 2020

though if MyST Notebooks didn’t use curly braces, how would you specify that you don’t want a Python chunk to be run? Many notebooks also include literal python (e.g. for demonstrations)

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