compact-pdf Quarto Format

A Quarto format for compact PDF documents. Good for short reports, homework assignments, etc.

Example

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Installation and usage

To add the format to a project (Quarto extensions cannot be installed globally):

quarto add arcruz0/quarto-compact

Next, simply use the compact-pdf format instead of pdf in your Quarto documents. For example:

---
title: "My Title"
author: "My Name"
date: today
format: compact-pdf
---

Details

All PDF options should work as in the "pdf" format.

To replicate the format without installing it, just copy-paste the following into your Quarto document's YAML header:

format: 
  pdf:
      toc: false
      shift-heading-level-by: 2
      fig-pos: "H"
      fig-cap-location: top
      geometry:
        - top=1in
        - right=.8in
        - bottom=1in
        - left=.8in
      link-citations: yes
      linkcolor: blue
      include-in-header: 
        text: |
          \usepackage{fancyhdr}
          \usepackage{titling}
          \pagestyle{fancy}
          \fancyhf{}
          \renewcommand\maketitle{
            \fancyhead[C]{
              \thetitle
              \ifx \theauthor\empty  \else \ – \theauthor \fi
              \ifx \thedate\empty  \else \ – \thedate \ \fi
            }
          }
          \fancyfoot[C]{\thepage}