Quarto 1.4 – Quarto (Pre-release)

Quarto 1.4 has been officially released! You can get the current release from the download page

This release has tons of new features. Some of the big ones we want to spotlight are: Dashboards, Typst, Inline Code Syntax, Cross-References and Manuscripts.

Dashboards

Quarto Dashboards streamline the creation of interactive dashboards, giving you an effortless way to lay out interactive components, visualizations, tabular data, and annotations. Here are some examples (click on the image to visit the live version):

For the source code of these dashboards and additional examples see the examples gallery. When you are ready to build your own Quarto dashboard head to our guide on Dashboards.

Typst

Typst is a new open-source markup-based typesetting system that is designed to be as powerful as LaTeX while being much easier to learn and use. Typst creates beautiful PDF output with blazing fast render times.

Quarto 1.4 includes the Typst CLI, so all you need to get started creating PDFs via Typst is to use format: typst:

hello-typst.qmd

---
title: "Hello Typst!"
format: typst
---

My first Typst document

We are particularly excited about how easy it is to make templates for journal articles, conference posters, newsletters and more with Typst. Here are some examples you can use in Quarto as custom formats:

Screenshot of a page showing a article styled according IEEE standards. The title is centered with authors below in two columns. — IEEE

Poster

Screenshot of a page showing a letter. A sender address is across the top of the page, followed by a recipient address left justified. The body of the letter includes a subject line in bold. — Letter

Start your Typst journey with Quarto in our guide on Typst Basics.

Inline Code Syntax

Quarto 1.4 introduces a unified syntax for including computed values inline. The syntax for inline code is similar to code blocks, except you use a single tick (`) rather than triple ticks (```), and you can use it in the middle of markdown:

Jupyter

```{python}
radius = 5
```

The radius of the circle is `{python} radius`

This syntax works for any Jupyter kernel—so for Julia you would write an inline expression as `{julia} radius`).

Knitr

```{r}
radius <- 5
```

The radius of the circle is `{r} radius`

OJS

```{ojs}
radius = 5
```

The radius of the circle is `{ojs} radius`

And don’t worry if you are used to using `r ` that syntax remains fully supported. Read more at Inline Code.

Cross-References

Cross-references have been overhauled in Quarto 1.4, enabling you to do things like:

Flexibly define the content of float cross-references (e.g. figures, tables and code listings) with the new Cross-Reference Div Syntax. For example, Table 1 is an image treated like a table:
::: {#tbl-table} ![](table.png) An image treated like a table :::
Table 1: An image treated like a table
And notice if you hover over the reference as it appears in the text, e.g. hover over this link to Table 1, you’ll get a floating preview of the content—that’s new too.
Define custom types of float cross-reference, which you could use to create cross-references to Videos, Diagrams or Supplemental Figures.
Cross-reference executable code cells, callouts and remarks and solutions.

Manuscripts

Quarto manuscript projects provide a framework for writing and publishing scholarly articles. You can use notebooks (.qmd or .ipynb) as the source of content and computations, and then publish these computations alongside the manuscript, allowing readers to dive into your code.

The output of a manuscript project is a website containing the article in multiple formats (e.g. LaTeX, MS Word) along with rendered versions of the notebooks in the project:

A screenshot of the content area on the manuscript webpage. Content shows a title block including the article title, authors, and abstract, body text, and an image with a caption. — Article Content

A screenshot of the menu on the right hand side of the manuscript webpage. The menu has headings: Table of contents, Other Formats, Notebooks and Other Links. — Navigation

Read more about manuscripts and how to get started in our guide to Manuscripts.

Other Highlights

Some other highlights include:

Shiny for Python—Support for using Shiny for Python within Quarto documents.
Script Rendering—Render specially formatted .py, .jl and .r script files.
Easy Binder Configuration for Quarto Projects—Support for generating files required to deploy a Quarto project to Binder.
Connect Email Generation—Extends the html output format so that HTML/text emails can be created and selectively delivered through Posit Connect.
Publish to Posit Cloud—Adds posit-cloud as a venue for quarto publish.
Lightbox Treatment for Images and Figures—Support for zooming into images and figures as well as grouping multiple images into a gallery.

If you build Quarto extensions, you should also be aware of some developer-facing changes:

Lua changes—New Support for crossreferenceable elements in filters, extensible renderers of quarto AST nodes such as FloatRefTarget and Callout, the use of relative paths in require() calls, and more precise specification of where a filter will be inserted.
AST processing changes—Improvements to the HTML table processing added in v1.3 and a way for LaTeX raw blocks to include Quarto-compatible markdown for processing.

You can find all the other changes in 1.4 in the Release Notes.

Acknowledgements

We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who contributed to this release by opening issues and pull requests:

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