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Glossary

Legacy Book
A Jupyter Book written for use with the Sphinx-based Jupyter Book 1 tools.
New Book
A Jupyter Book written for use with this project, the MyST-MD-based Jupyter Book 2 tool.
Hidden Files
In Unix-like operating systems, files or folders with names that start with a dot (e.g. .foo.txt), are treated as “hidden” in most applications.
Structured Data
A representation of rich markup that computer programs can easily understand and manipulate.
Environment Manager
Environment managers like virtualenv and conda help to keep software from different projects isolated from one another, reducing the risk of one package breaking another.
Deterministic Ordering
An order that is not random or dependent upon e.g. the computer running a piece of code.
Abstract Syntax Tree
A way of structuring and labeling documents according to a specification to ensure consistent behavior. The MyST document engine defines its own document specification, and all MyST documents are first built into ASTs before being rendered into output formats (like HTML, PDF, etc).
AST
See Abstract Syntax Tree.