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A few folks recommended Quarto to me when I asked about current recommendations recently. My main goal is physical books and that doesn't seem to be a first cla
by __mharrison__ 4y ago
A few folks recommended Quarto to me when I asked about current recommendations recently. My main goal is physical books and that doesn't seem to be a first class citizen anywhere. Looking through Quarto, I can't find reference to markdown syntax for index entries (which indicates that they don't support it.)
Also, I'm heavily biased, but based on my experience I will need to hack whatever tool and I'm not really interested in hacking JS/TS. (My whole reason for getting rid of my rst based tooling is to simplify and sticking in Python simplifies my life, coding in JS/TS not so much.)
- jtbayly 4y agoI'm also very interested in physical books. Can you point me to anything that supports index entries well, regardless of the language they are written in? I certainly agree about expecting to need to hack, whatever the tool.
- __mharrison__ 4y agoAs I mentioned elsewhere, I've published multiple books using rst2nitrile. For example, Effective Pandas was written with it...
- jtbayly 4y agoBookdown seems to support index entries: https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/latex-index.html https://bookdown.org/yihui/bookdown/latex-index.html I wouldn't be surprised if Quarto supports the same syntax, since they are related. But it is possible it doesn't.
- __mharrison__ 4y agoIt might. I'm not interested in hacking R.
- jtbayly 4y agoI'd be very interested in seeing your markdown (pandoc filter) based solution, if you can publish it.