Experimental Publishing Compendium

tool

Quarto

Description

Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. It can create dynamic content with Python, R, Julia, and Observable. It can accept documents as plain text Markdown or Jupyter Notebooks. It can publish high-quality articles, reports, presentations, websites, blogs, and books in HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub, and more. It can publish with scientific Markdown including equations, citations, crossrefs, figure panels, callouts, advanced layouts, and more.

Developer

Posit

Software license

GPL-2.0 License

Software language(s)

JavaScript / TypeScript

Project page

https://quarto.org/

Code repository

https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli

Import / ingest formats

Markdown, Jupyter Notebook

Output formats

HTML, PDF, doc, OpenOffice, ePub, Revealjs, PowerPoint, Beamer, Markdown, JATS XML, Jupyter Notebook, ConTeXt, RTF, reST, AsciiDoc, OPML XML, DocBook XML, TEI XML, FictionBook XML

Platform status

actively maintained

Practices

Computational publishing

Computational publishing broadly refers to publishing a book using techniques or processes from software development. This can include software...