Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc

Re:Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system buil... by acenes on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:31AM (#30054283)

I currently use bookdown and have dabbled with Jupyterbook. Why should I use this instead? I don't see any advantages, esp. for scientific and technical books / websites.

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Re:Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system buil... by ncmncm on Monday January 24, 2022 @01:46AM (#30054353)

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30049672

So, it is the next generation of that.

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Re:Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system buil... by acenes on Monday January 24, 2022 @02:02AM (#30054431)

So, why should one use the next generation? Because it is not tied to R or Python? We're all using one or the other so that doesn't sound like a convincing reason to completely change my workflow.

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Re:Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system buil... by jjallr on Monday January 24, 2022 @07:23AM (#30056777)

I think if you are happy with the workflow/output you have there is no reason at all to change. w/r/t to websites and books we have put a lot of investment into features for both (https://quarto.org/docs/websites/, https://quarto.org/docs/books/). If you compare books with Bookdown vs. Quarto vs. JupyterBook I think you'll find that each does some things better than the others (so again if you are happy w/ your existing tools no reason to change).

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Re:Quarto: A scientific and technical publishing system buil... by acenes on Wednesday February 02, 2022 @12:36AM (#30174137)

Thanks for the response. Is there any plan for Quarto to support live code, e.g. the reader can change the code and update the output? Or a feature that makes it easy to have a comment section for each page? I think these things are either not supported or not trivial to do with Bookdown or JupyterBook.

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