Different notebook cells to different script files

[kikejimenez]

Is it possible to go from various script files to one notebook file and vice-versa?
The purpose is to run sequentially those scripts on the notebook and sync their updating.
From the documentation, it is unclear to me if this is possible

[mwouts]

Hello @kikejimenez , well no sorry, this is not possible. Jupytext always converts, or pair, a single notebook, to a single text file.

Of course, if you'd like to concatenate the multiple scripts yourself, then Jupytext can easily turn the concatenated script into a notebook, but I don't think this is was you are looking for, right?

Also, have you seen the %load magic command? In a notebook, it creates a cell with the content taken from the script in argument.

[kikejimenez]

Thanks for your reply @mwouts, I'll take a look at your suggestions and work for some intermediate solution that takes:
many scripts --> one script --> notebook (and vice-versa)
Again, many thanks!

[mwouts]

You're welcome! And please keep us posted!

By the way

1. I've seen a (non-Jupyter) notebook system in which the cell content is stored in scripts: cf. the dotnet/try iteractive Markdown files, used by Microsoft for C# and F# notebooks (these are not supported by Jupytext at the moment, see Open dotnet/try Markdown files as notebooks in Jupyter #438)
2. And, maybe your question is related to child documents. We have been working recently on a new Markdown format that includes some Sphinx directives A book publishing project interested in extending jupytext code  #447, maybe this new format will soon offer the possibility to have child document? (cc @chrisjsewell)