A minimal but fully featured template for a quarto, markdown, and/or Jupyter notebook based book manuscript that renders as a publisher-friendly Microsoft Word file. The idea is for the template to be as simple as possible, but no simpler.
- References, with
- citations in the order in which they appear in the text
- citations rendered as superscript numbers within the body of the text
- citations that links to relevant entry in the bibliography
- superscript numbered ranges for multiple successive citations, eg 1---3
- bibliography citations that, if there is a URL present in the bibliography file (in .bib format), link to the original source
- support for citations with ad hoc notes via the "note" entry in the .bib file
- Figures, with
- support to create / insert figures reproducibly from code
- alt text
- the lossless SVG format
- Publisher-ready output in the form of a Microsoft Word file with,
- Times New Roman font
- big line spacing
- sufficient margins
- Input files with support for,
- Jupyter notebooks
- markdown
- quarto markdown
- A table of contents
- A ready-to-roll Python 3.9 environment via a conda file
What you will need:
- Quarto (and its dependencies)
- The Anaconda distribution of Python (for code / figures produced from code only)
To install the Python environment, you will need to run:
conda env create -f environment.ymlAlthough not required, you may find Visual Studio Code and its Python and Quarto extensions helpful for writing.
On the command line, ensure you have activated the Python environment if you are creating plots:
conda activate qmdbookAnd then create the Word Document with:
quarto renderIt will appear in the _book directory.
If the compilation via Jupyter fails (eg if a chart code chunk fails) then quarto will leave a Jupyter notebook in its wake---simply delete it or fix the issue.