How to replace HTML partials that are included in an HTML partial?

[luifrancgom]

Description

Based on what is mentioned in #13841, I want to modify title-block.html.

However, title-block.html includes the partial title-metadata.html, which in turn includes _title-meta-author.html.

Environment

• Quarto version: 1.11.1

Question

Taking into account #13841 and that HTML partials doesn't mention title-metadata.html or _title-meta-author.html, is there a way to replace these partials using template-partials, or is the only solution to copy and paste the content of title-metadata.html and _title-meta-author.html into title-block.html and apply the desired modification?

[mohammadrezwankhan]

[luifrancgom]

Thank you for your answer, Mohammad Rezwan.

Maybe I wasn't clear in my question. I want to modify title-block.html, but the part that I want to modify is related to title-metadata.html and _title-meta-author.html that are used in title-block.html. However, in HTML partials it doesn't mention these partials, so I can't use them directly using:

format:
  html:
    template-partials:
      - title-metadata.html
      - _title-meta-author.html

So I want to know if there is an alternative solution instead of copying and pasting the contents of title-metadata.html and _title-meta-author.html in title-block.html and then applying the modifications. The problem is that if in the future these partials change, it will be more difficult to maintain the code.

[mcanouil]

All partials work the same way and as documented/mentioned already.
If you modify a partial, then your modifications take over, that's the whole point.

Regardless of the partial you wish to modify, if you changed it then you no longer have upstream contents/changes, that's how it works.
Nothing is blocking you from writing a script checking changes in the upstream partials. (That's what Quarto already does as the original partials come from Pandoc with few changes from Quarto)

See:

• Multiple title-block-header divs created when using the title-block template partial #13841