PDF Options

Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed by Adobe in 1992 to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems. To learn more about PDF see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF.

See the PDF format user guide for more details on creating PDF output with Quarto.

format: pdf

Title & Author

title	Document title
subtitle	Identifies the subtitle of the document.
date	Document date
author	Author or authors of the document
abstract	Summary of document
thanks	The contents of an acknowledgments footnote after the document title.
order	Order for document when included in a website automatic sidebar menu.

Format Options

brand	Branding information to use for this document. If a string, the path to a brand file. If false, don’t use branding on this document. If an object, an inline brand definition.
pdf-engine	Use the specified engine when producing PDF output. If the engine is not in your PATH, the full path of the engine may be specified here. If this option is not specified, Quarto uses the following defaults depending on the output format in use: latex: xelatex (other options: pdflatex, lualatex, tectonic, latexmk) context: context html: wkhtmltopdf (other options: prince, weasyprint, pagedjs-cli; see print-css.rocks for a good introduction to PDF generation from HTML/CSS.) ms: pdfroff typst: typst
pdf-engine-opt	Use the given string as a command-line argument to the pdf-engine. For example, to use a persistent directory foo for latexmk’s auxiliary files, use pdf-engine-opt: -outdir=foo. Note that no check for duplicate options is done.
pdf-engine-opts	Use the given strings passed as a array as command-line arguments to the pdf-engine. This is an alternative to pdf-engine-opt for passing multiple options.
beamerarticle	Whether to produce a Beamer article from this presentation.
quarto-required	A semver version range describing the supported quarto versions for this document or project. Examples: >= 1.1.0: Require at least quarto version 1.1 1.*: Require any quarto versions whose major version number is 1

Table of Contents

toc	Include an automatically generated table of contents (or, in the case of latex, context, docx, odt, opendocument, rst, or ms, an instruction to create one) in the output document. Note that if you are producing a PDF via ms, the table of contents will appear at the beginning of the document, before the title. If you would prefer it to be at the end of the document, use the option pdf-engine-opt: --no-toc-relocation.
toc-depth	Specify the number of section levels to include in the table of contents. The default is 3
toc-title	The title used for the table of contents.
lof	Print a list of figures in the document.
lot	Print a list of tables in the document.

Numbering

number-sections	Number section headings rendered output. By default, sections are not numbered. Sections with class .unnumbered will never be numbered, even if number-sections is specified.
number-depth	By default, all headings in your document create a numbered section. You customize numbering depth using the number-depth option. For example, to only number sections immediately below the chapter level, use this: number-depth: 1
number-offset	Offset for section headings in output (offsets are 0 by default) The first number is added to the section number for top-level headings, the second for second-level headings, and so on. So, for example, if you want the first top-level heading in your document to be numbered “6”, specify number-offset: 5. If your document starts with a level-2 heading which you want to be numbered “1.5”, specify number-offset: [1,4]. Implies number-sections
shift-heading-level-by	Shift heading levels by a positive or negative integer. For example, with shift-heading-level-by: -1, level 2 headings become level 1 headings, and level 3 headings become level 2 headings. Headings cannot have a level less than 1, so a heading that would be shifted below level 1 becomes a regular paragraph. Exception: with a shift of -N, a level-N heading at the beginning of the document replaces the metadata title.
top-level-division	Treat top-level headings as the given division type (default, section, chapter, or part). The hierarchy order is part, chapter, then section; all headings are shifted such that the top-level heading becomes the specified type. The default behavior is to determine the best division type via heuristics: unless other conditions apply, section is chosen. When the documentclass variable is set to report, book, or memoir (unless the article option is specified), chapter is implied as the setting for this option. If beamer is the output format, specifying either chapter or part will cause top-level headings to become \part{..}, while second-level headings remain as their default type.

Fonts

mainfont	For HTML output, sets the CSS font-family on the HTML element. For LaTeX output, the main font family for use with xelatex or lualatex. Takes the name of any system font, using the fontspec package. For ConTeXt output, the main font family. Use the name of any system font. See ConTeXt Fonts for more information.
monofont	For HTML output, sets the CSS font-family property on code elements. For PowerPoint output, sets the font used for code. For LaTeX output, the monospace font family for use with xelatex or lualatex: take the name of any system font, using the fontspec package. For ConTeXt output, the monspace font family. Use the name of any system font. See ConTeXt Fonts for more information.
fontsize	For HTML output, sets the base CSS font-size property. For LaTeX and ConTeXt output, sets the font size for the document body text.
fontenc	Allows font encoding to be specified through fontenc package. See LaTeX Font Encodings Guide for addition information on font encoding.
fontfamily	Font package to use when compiling a PDf with the pdflatex pdf-engine. See The LaTeX Font Catalogue for a summary of font options available. For groff (ms) files, the font family for example, T or P.
fontfamilyoptions	Options for the package used as fontfamily. For example, to use the Libertine font with proportional lowercase (old-style) figures through the libertinus package: fontfamily: libertinus fontfamilyoptions: - osf - p
sansfont	The sans serif font family for use with xelatex or lualatex. Takes the name of any system font, using the fontspec package.
mathfont	The math font family for use with xelatex or lualatex. Takes the name of any system font, using the fontspec package.
CJKmainfont	The CJK main font family for use with xelatex or lualatex using the xecjk package.
mainfontoptions	The main font options for use with xelatex or lualatex allowing any options available through fontspec. For example, to use the TeX Gyre version of Palatino with lowercase figures: mainfont: TeX Gyre Pagella mainfontoptions: - Numbers=Lowercase - Numbers=Proportional
sansfontoptions	The sans serif font options for use with xelatex or lualatex allowing any options available through fontspec.
monofontoptions	The monospace font options for use with xelatex or lualatex allowing any options available through fontspec.
mathfontoptions	The math font options for use with xelatex or lualatex allowing any options available through fontspec.
CJKoptions	The CJK font options for use with xelatex or lualatex allowing any options available through fontspec.
microtypeoptions	Options to pass to the microtype package.
linestretch	For HTML output sets the CSS line-height property on the html element, which is preferred to be unitless. For LaTeX output, adjusts line spacing using the setspace package, e.g. 1.25, 1.5.

Colors

linkcolor	For HTML output, sets the CSS color property on all links. For LaTeX output, The color used for internal links using color options allowed by xcolor, including the dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names lists. For ConTeXt output, sets the color for both external links and links within the document.
filecolor	The color used for external links using color options allowed by xcolor, including the dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names lists.
citecolor	The color used for citation links using color options allowed by xcolor, including the dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names lists.
urlcolor	The color used for linked URLs using color options allowed by xcolor, including the dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names lists.
toccolor	The color used for links in the Table of Contents using color options allowed by xcolor, including the dvipsnames, svgnames, and x11names lists.
colorlinks	Add color to link text, automatically enabled if any of linkcolor, filecolor, citecolor, urlcolor, or toccolor are set.

Layout

cap-location	Where to place figure and table captions (top, bottom, or margin)
fig-cap-location	Where to place figure captions (top, bottom, or margin)
tbl-cap-location	Where to place table captions (top, bottom, or margin)
documentclass	The document class.
classoption	For LaTeX/PDF output, the options set for the document class. For HTML output using KaTeX, you can render display math equations flush left using classoption: fleqn
pagestyle	Control the \pagestyle{} for the document.
papersize	The paper size for the document.
grid	Properties of the grid system used to layout Quarto HTML pages.
margin-left	For HTML output, sets the margin-left property on the Body element. For LaTeX output, sets the left margin if geometry is not used (otherwise geometry overrides this value) For ConTeXt output, sets the left margin if layout is not used, otherwise layout overrides these. For wkhtmltopdf sets the left page margin.
margin-right	For HTML output, sets the margin-right property on the Body element. For LaTeX output, sets the right margin if geometry is not used (otherwise geometry overrides this value) For ConTeXt output, sets the right margin if layout is not used, otherwise layout overrides these. For wkhtmltopdf sets the right page margin.
margin-top	For HTML output, sets the margin-top property on the Body element. For LaTeX output, sets the top margin if geometry is not used (otherwise geometry overrides this value) For ConTeXt output, sets the top margin if layout is not used, otherwise layout overrides these. For wkhtmltopdf sets the top page margin.
margin-bottom	For HTML output, sets the margin-bottom property on the Body element. For LaTeX output, sets the bottom margin if geometry is not used (otherwise geometry overrides this value) For ConTeXt output, sets the bottom margin if layout is not used, otherwise layout overrides these. For wkhtmltopdf sets the bottom page margin.
geometry	Options for the geometry package. For example: geometry: - top=30mm - left=20mm - heightrounded
hyperrefoptions	Options for the hyperref package. For example: hyperrefoptions: - linktoc=all - pdfwindowui - pdfpagemode=FullScreen To customize link colors, please see the Quarto PDF reference.
indent	Whether to use document class settings for indentation. If the document class settings are not used, the default LaTeX template removes indentation and adds space between paragraphs For groff (ms) documents, the paragraph indent, for example, 2m.
block-headings	Make \paragraph and \subparagraph (fourth- and fifth-level headings, or fifth- and sixth-level with book classes) free-standing rather than run-in; requires further formatting to distinguish from \subsubsection (third- or fourth-level headings). Instead of using this option, KOMA-Script can adjust headings more extensively: header-includes: | \RedeclareSectionCommand[ beforeskip=-10pt plus -2pt minus -1pt, afterskip=1sp plus -1sp minus 1sp, font=\normalfont\itshape]{paragraph} \RedeclareSectionCommand[ beforeskip=-10pt plus -2pt minus -1pt, afterskip=1sp plus -1sp minus 1sp, font=\normalfont\scshape, indent=0pt]{subparagraph}

Code

code-line-numbers	Include line numbers in code block output (true or false). For revealjs output only, you can also specify a string to highlight specific lines (and/or animate between sets of highlighted lines). Sets of lines are denoted with commas: 3,4,5 1,10,12 Ranges can be denoted with dashes and combined with commas: 1-3,5 5-10,12,14 Finally, animation steps are separated by |: 1-3|1-3,5 first shows 1-3, then 1-3,5 |5|5-10,12 first shows no numbering, then 5, then lines 5-10 and 12
code-annotations	The style to use when displaying code annotations. Set this value to false to hide code annotations.
code-block-border-left	Specifies to apply a left border on code blocks. Provide a hex color to specify that the border is enabled as well as the color of the border.
code-block-bg	Specifies to apply a background color on code blocks. Provide a hex color to specify that the background color is enabled as well as the color of the background.
highlight-style	Specifies the coloring style to be used in highlighted source code. Instead of a STYLE name, a JSON file with extension .theme may be supplied. This will be parsed as a KDE syntax highlighting theme and (if valid) used as the highlighting style.
syntax-definitions	KDE language syntax definition files (XML)
listings	Use the listings package for LaTeX code blocks. The package does not support multi-byte encoding for source code. To handle UTF-8 you would need to use a custom template. This issue is fully documented here: Encoding issue with the listings package
indented-code-classes	Specify classes to use for all indented code blocks

Execution

Execution options should be specified within the execute key. For example:

execute:
  echo: false
  warning: false

eval	Evaluate code cells (if false just echos the code into output). true (default): evaluate code cell false: don’t evaluate code cell [...]: A list of positive or negative line numbers to selectively include or exclude lines (explicit inclusion/excusion of lines is available only when using the knitr engine)
echo	Include cell source code in rendered output. true (default in most formats): include source code in output false (default in presentation formats like beamer, revealjs, and pptx): do not include source code in output fenced: in addition to echoing, include the cell delimiter as part of the output. [...]: A list of positive or negative line numbers to selectively include or exclude lines (explicit inclusion/excusion of lines is available only when using the knitr engine)
output	Include the results of executing the code in the output. Possible values: true: Include results. false: Do not include results. asis: Treat output as raw markdown with no enclosing containers.
warning	Include warnings in rendered output.
error	Include errors in the output (note that this implies that errors executing code will not halt processing of the document).
include	Catch all for preventing any output (code or results) from being included in output.
cache	Cache results of computations (using the knitr cache for R documents, and Jupyter Cache for Jupyter documents). Note that cache invalidation is triggered by changes in chunk source code (or other cache attributes you’ve defined). true: Cache results false: Do not cache results refresh: Force a refresh of the cache even if has not been otherwise invalidated.
freeze	Control the re-use of previous computational output when rendering. true: Never recompute previously generated computational output during a global project render false (default): Recompute previously generated computational output auto: Re-compute previously generated computational output only in case their source file changes

Figures

fig-align	Figure horizontal alignment (default, left, right, or center)
fig-env	LaTeX environment for figure output
fig-pos	LaTeX figure position arrangement to be used in \begin{figure}[]. Computational figure output that is accompanied by the code that produced it is given a default value of fig-pos="H" (so that the code and figure are not inordinately separated). If fig-pos is false, then we don’t use any figure position specifier, which is sometimes necessary with custom figure environments (such as sidewaysfigure).
fig-cap-location	Where to place figure captions (top, bottom, or margin)
fig-width	Default width for figures generated by Matplotlib or R graphics. Note that with the Jupyter engine, this option has no effect when provided at the cell level; it can only be provided with document or project metadata.
fig-height	Default height for figures generated by Matplotlib or R graphics. Note that with the Jupyter engine, this option has no effect when provided at the cell level; it can only be provided with document or project metadata.
fig-format	Default format for figures generated by Matplotlib or R graphics (retina, png, jpeg, svg, or pdf)
fig-dpi	Default DPI for figures generated by Matplotlib or R graphics. Note that with the Jupyter engine, this option has no effect when provided at the cell level; it can only be provided with document or project metadata.
fig-asp	The aspect ratio of the plot, i.e., the ratio of height/width. When fig-asp is specified, the height of a plot (the option fig-height) is calculated from fig-width * fig-asp. The fig-asp option is only available within the knitr engine.

Tables

tbl-colwidths	Apply explicit table column widths for markdown grid tables and pipe tables that are more than columns characters wide (72 by default). Some formats (e.g. HTML) do an excellent job automatically sizing table columns and so don’t benefit much from column width specifications. Other formats (e.g. LaTeX) require table column sizes in order to correctly flow longer cell content (this is a major reason why tables > 72 columns wide are assigned explicit widths by Pandoc). This can be specified as: auto: Apply markdown table column widths except when there is a hyperlink in the table (which tends to throw off automatic calculation of column widths based on the markdown text width of cells). (auto is the default for HTML output formats) true: Always apply markdown table widths (true is the default for all non-HTML formats) false: Never apply markdown table widths. An array of numbers (e.g. [40, 30, 30]): Array of explicit width percentages.
tbl-cap-location	Where to place table captions (top, bottom, or margin)
df-print	Method used to print tables in Knitr engine documents: default: Use the default S3 method for the data frame. kable: Markdown table using the knitr::kable() function. tibble: Plain text table using the tibble package. paged: HTML table with paging for row and column overflow. The default printing method is kable.

References

bibliography	Document bibliography (BibTeX or CSL). May be a single file or a list of files
csl	Citation Style Language file to use for formatting references.
cite-method	Method used to format citations (citeproc, natbib, or biblatex).
citeproc	Turn on built-in citation processing. To use this feature, you will need to have a document containing citations and a source of bibliographic data: either an external bibliography file or a list of references in the document’s YAML metadata. You can optionally also include a csl citation style file.
biblatexoptions	A list of options for BibLaTeX.
natbiboptions	One or more options to provide for natbib when generating a bibliography.
biblio-style	The bibliography style to use (e.g. \bibliographystyle{dinat}) when using natbib or biblatex.
biblio-title	The bibliography title to use when using natbib or biblatex.
biblio-config	Controls whether to output bibliography configuration for natbib or biblatex when cite method is not citeproc.
citation-abbreviations	JSON file containing abbreviations of journals that should be used in formatted bibliographies when form="short" is specified. The format of the file can be illustrated with an example: { "default": { "container-title": { "Lloyd's Law Reports": "Lloyd's Rep", "Estates Gazette": "EG", "Scots Law Times": "SLT" } } }
link-citations	If true, citations will be hyperlinked to the corresponding bibliography entries (for author-date and numerical styles only). Defaults to false.
link-bibliography	If true, DOIs, PMCIDs, PMID, and URLs in bibliographies will be rendered as hyperlinks. (If an entry contains a DOI, PMCID, PMID, or URL, but none of these fields are rendered by the style, then the title, or in the absence of a title the whole entry, will be hyperlinked.) Defaults to true.
notes-after-punctuation	If true (the default for note styles), Quarto (via Pandoc) will put footnote references or superscripted numerical citations after following punctuation. For example, if the source contains blah blah [@jones99]., the result will look like blah blah.[^1], with the note moved after the period and the space collapsed. If false, the space will still be collapsed, but the footnote will not be moved after the punctuation. The option may also be used in numerical styles that use superscripts for citation numbers (but for these styles the default is not to move the citation).

Footnotes

links-as-notes	Causes links to be printed as footnotes.
reference-location	Specify location for footnotes. Also controls the location of references, if reference-links is set. block: Place at end of current top-level block section: Place at end of current section margin: Place at the margin document: Place at end of document

Cross-References

crossref

Configuration for cross-reference labels and prefixes. See Cross-Reference Options for more details.

Citation

citation

Citation information for the document itself specified as CSL YAML in the document front matter. For more on supported options, see Citation Metadata.

Language

lang	Identifies the main language of the document using IETF language tags (following the BCP 47 standard), such as en or en-GB. The Language subtag lookup tool can look up or verify these tags. This affects most formats, and controls hyphenation in PDF output when using LaTeX (through babel and polyglossia) or ConTeXt.
language	YAML file containing custom language translations
dir	The base script direction for the document (rtl or ltr). For bidirectional documents, native pandoc spans and divs with the dir attribute can be used to override the base direction in some output formats. This may not always be necessary if the final renderer (e.g. the browser, when generating HTML) supports the [Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm]. When using LaTeX for bidirectional documents, only the xelatex engine is fully supported (use --pdf-engine=xelatex).

Includes

include-before-body	Include contents at the beginning of the document body (e.g. after the <body> tag in HTML, or the \begin{document} command in LaTeX). A string value or an object with key “file” indicates a filename whose contents are to be included An object with key “text” indicates textual content to be included
include-after-body	Include content at the end of the document body immediately after the markdown content. While it will be included before the closing </body> tag in HTML and the \end{document} command in LaTeX, this option refers to the end of the markdown content. A string value or an object with key “file” indicates a filename whose contents are to be included An object with key “text” indicates textual content to be included
include-in-header	Include contents at the end of the header. This can be used, for example, to include special CSS or JavaScript in HTML documents. A string value or an object with key “file” indicates a filename whose contents are to be included An object with key “text” indicates textual content to be included
metadata-files	Read metadata from the supplied YAML (or JSON) files. This option can be used with every input format, but string scalars in the YAML file will always be parsed as Markdown. Generally, the input will be handled the same as in YAML metadata blocks. Values in files specified later in the list will be preferred over those specified earlier. Metadata values specified inside the document, or by using -M, overwrite values specified with this option.

Metadata

keywords	List of keywords to be included in the document metadata.
subject	The document subject
title-meta	Sets the title metadata for the document
author-meta	Sets the author metadata for the document
date-meta	Sets the date metadata for the document

Rendering

from	Format to read from. Extensions can be individually enabled or disabled by appending +EXTENSION or -EXTENSION to the format name (e.g. markdown+emoji).
output-file	Output file to write to
output-ext	Extension to use for generated output file
template	Use the specified file as a custom template for the generated document.
template-partials	Include the specified files as partials accessible to the template for the generated content.
filters	Specify executables or Lua scripts to be used as a filter transforming the pandoc AST after the input is parsed and before the output is written.
shortcodes	Specify Lua scripts that implement shortcode handlers
keep-md	Keep the markdown file generated by executing code
keep-ipynb	Keep the notebook file generated from executing code.
ipynb-filters	Filters to pre-process ipynb files before rendering to markdown
ipynb-shell-interactivity	Specify which nodes should be run interactively (displaying output from expressions)
plotly-connected	If true, use the “notebook_connected” plotly renderer, which downloads its dependencies from a CDN and requires an internet connection to view.
keep-tex	Keep the intermediate tex file used during render.
extract-media	Extract images and other media contained in or linked from the source document to the path DIR, creating it if necessary, and adjust the images references in the document so they point to the extracted files. Media are downloaded, read from the file system, or extracted from a binary container (e.g. docx), as needed. The original file paths are used if they are relative paths not containing … Otherwise filenames are constructed from the SHA1 hash of the contents.
resource-path	List of paths to search for images and other resources.
default-image-extension	Specify a default extension to use when image paths/URLs have no extension. This allows you to use the same source for formats that require different kinds of images. Currently this option only affects the Markdown and LaTeX readers.
abbreviations	Specifies a custom abbreviations file, with abbreviations one to a line. This list is used when reading Markdown input: strings found in this list will be followed by a nonbreaking space, and the period will not produce sentence-ending space in formats like LaTeX. The strings may not contain spaces.
dpi	Specify the default dpi (dots per inch) value for conversion from pixels to inch/ centimeters and vice versa. (Technically, the correct term would be ppi: pixels per inch.) The default is 96. When images contain information about dpi internally, the encoded value is used instead of the default specified by this option.
html-table-processing	If none, do not process tables in HTML input.
use-rsvg-convert	If true, attempt to use rsvg-convert to convert SVG images to PDF.

Latexmk

latex-auto-mk	Use Quarto’s built-in PDF rendering wrapper (includes support for automatically installing missing LaTeX packages)
latex-auto-install	Enable/disable automatic LaTeX package installation
latex-min-runs	Minimum number of compilation passes.
latex-max-runs	Maximum number of compilation passes.
latex-clean	Clean intermediates after compilation.
latex-makeindex	Program to use for makeindex.
latex-makeindex-opts	Array of command line options for makeindex.
latex-tlmgr-opts	Array of command line options for tlmgr.
latex-output-dir	Output directory for intermediates and PDF.
latex-tinytex	Set to false to prevent an installation of TinyTex from being used to compile PDF documents.
latex-input-paths	Array of paths LaTeX should search for inputs.

Text Output

ascii

Use only ASCII characters in output. Currently supported for XML and HTML formats (which use entities instead of UTF-8 when this option is selected), CommonMark, gfm, and Markdown (which use entities), roff ms (which use hexadecimal escapes), and to a limited degree LaTeX (which uses standard commands for accented characters when possible). roff man output uses ASCII by default.