Quarto with the Quarto Team | An Open-Source Chat

Join Al Manning, Carlos SchIidegger, & Charles Teague, members of the Quarto Team, as they take our questions.

Quarto is an open-source tool for scientific and technical publishing. Create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable. Author documents as plain text markdown or Jupyter notebooks. Publish high-quality articles, reports, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more. Author with scientific markdown, including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layout, and more.

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Timestamps
00:00:00 Introductions
2:55 Why open source?
6:20 Can we expect to see Quarto available to R-users via CRAN any time soon?
9:10 Quarto and Google Docs?
9:49 Lua filters/shortcodes. Advice for a good development environment for prototyping and debugging?
16:15 Navigating Quarto's documentation.
18:00 Is there something like Observable SQL cells on the roadmap?
24:20 Flexdashboard? Coming soon.
26:30 A big challenge in the adoption is that Quarto is competing with ipython notebooks for mindspace, what does the Quarto team think about that? Quarto and Jupyter Notebooks will hopefully be thought of as complementary to one another, with Quarto helping a lot with narrative, layout, and appearance for publication and sharing.
30:10 Where should I go to contact you about an issue? What if the issue isn't just Quarto, say, Quarto + Jupyter?
31:50: What is the Quarto team hoping to see the community produce? Feedback, reporting in github issues. Quarto Extensions.
34:05 Custom styling, configuring grid options. Any tips or anything in the roadmap that will help users finetune the look and feel of their output?
38:40 Terminology question; what do we call a published Quarto doc? (or webpage, blog, etc.?)
40:00 How do I stay up to date with Quarto? Getting the latest release and learning about what is new?