No longer a canonical way to parse a simple snippet

[micimize]

Describe the gap in the current documentation

Old docs used to have the following, but I cannot find the new equivalent

from myst_parser.main import to_html
to_html("some *text* {literal}`a`")

Describe the solution you'd like

Documnetation covering how to parse myst for simple usages i.e. display(HTML(parse_myst_to_html(markdown)))

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[micimize]

Different question – mystmd and myst-parser docs differ in places (https://mystmd.org/guide/code#numbering-and-highlighting vs https://myst-parser.readthedocs.io/en/latest/syntax/code_and_apis.html#adding-a-caption) . I was hoping these would be consistent flavors I could use across notebooks, frontend apps, etc. Are these docs out of date or just a hiccup/slight out-of-sync state between the libraries?

[rowanc1]

The goal of MyST as a markup language is to be consistent across various implementations (sphinx, python, javascript, etc.). In this specific case, we actually are, I think (with the exception of the force flag), the full directive docs for mystmd are here (the example is different):
https://mystmd.org/guide/directives#directive-code

Hope that helps @micimize! There are certainly other places where there are inconsistencies between these implementation and documentation. We are continually trying to improve it, so if you see something, please let us know! :)

[micimize]

@rowanc1 thanks, that makes sense! Sorry, I overloaded this issue but my primary question was what I should now use for parse_myst_to_html for a use-case like display(HTML(parse_myst_to_html(markdown)))