_[Firstly, thanks for this. It looks great! And love the multilingual nature of it.]_

I just wanted to ask whether it was a conscious decision to [suggest](https://quarto.org/docs/tools/jupyter-lab.html#plain-text-editing) people use plain text in Jupyter if they don't want a (JSON) ipynb file for version control, or whatever other reasons, rather than using [JupyText](https://jupytext.readthedocs.io/en/latest/formats.html#quarto)? _Especially given I've found the issue where you discussed it with mwouts, which then led to the integration._

Jupytext linking feels like a much better solution, as it would give the power of qmd for version control, but also of editing/working on it as a notebook.

Indeed, I used to use jupytext and Rmd for all my notebooks when I moved from R to py, though I have now moved to py:percent as most of my work is in python these days, so it seemed more natural. Though very keen to try qmd, and maybe switch again! Will report back if I have any issues.

PS. Didn't know whether to make this a Discussion. Happy for it to be transferred.
2022-03-02T21:19:58Z
DayalStrub
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Using Jupytext to link qmd with ipynb when working in Jupyter lab
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/1330