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Runic formatting ?

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#3,534 opened on May 7, 2026

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Description

The discussion in #586 brings me to the following idea: what about runic as a formatter in Pluto ? Runic.jl has format_string in its public API (see https://github.com/fredrikekre/Runic.jl/pull/127). May be this can be handeled via an opt-in or an opt-out flag in Pluto.run.

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Investigate Runic.jl's format string API and Pluto's existing formatting infrastructure to determine integration points.