Quarto

Session 06

Starts at:

May 13 2024 (12:15 pm)

Slides

This session

In this session, you will complete the following tasks:

  1. Complete the tasks in the slides.

recipes project

At the end of this session, you should have accomplished the following.

For more details, please see the slides.

Task 1

  1. You created a new quarto branch in your recipes repository and switched to it.

Task 2

  1. You create a new empty Quarto file called recipes.qmd and saved it in your recipes repository.
  2. You wrote a short introduction note to your recipes repository.
  3. You staged and committed your changes.

Task 3

  1. You added a recipe to the recipes.qmd file.
  2. You formatted the text by applying at least three types of Markdown syntax.
  3. You staged and committed your changes.

Task 4

  1. You added a YAML header to your Quarto file.
  2. You included your name, a title, an output format (e.g., HTML) and a theme.
  3. You staged and committed your changes.

Task 5

  1. You merged your quarto branch into your main branch

Please keep the recipes folder! We will continue to use it in the following sessions.

Slides

To print the slides to PDF, do the following:

  1. Toggle into Print View using the E key (or using the Navigation Menu).
  2. Open the in-browser print dialog (CTRL/CMD+P).
  3. Change the Destination setting to Save as PDF.
  4. Change the Layout to Landscape.
  5. Change the Margins to None.
  6. Enable the Background graphics option.
  7. Click Save.

Note: This feature has been confirmed to work in Google Chrome, Chromium as well as in Firefox.

Here’s what the Chrome print dialog would look like with these settings enabled:

Screenshot of Chrome print dialog with the first slide/page of 43 shown on the left, and print options on the right. The Destination print option has Save as PDF selected.

These instructions were copied from the Quarto documentation (MIT License) and slightly modified.