Question: Is it possible to use shortcodes in LaTeX macros?

[ramiromagno]

Let us say my _quarto.yml has this snippet:

format:
  pdf:
    documentclass: book
    include-in-header:
      - tex/preamble.tex
      - tex/macros.tex
    include-before-body:
      - tex/firstpages.tex

And inside macros.tex I have:

\newcommand{\mytitle}{{{< meta title >}}}
\newcommand{\myfullname}{{{< var author.fullname >}}}
\newcommand{\myshortname}{{{< var author.shortname >}}}

This won't work... Is there any way of replacing these shortcodes in the LaTeX files..?

[jjallaire]

Unfortunately this currently isn't possible. We will soon be releasing some features which enable the creation of custom formats that will likely allow you to do something along the lines of what is attempted above.

[ramiromagno]

Thanks for the prompt reply!

[mcanouil]

I am closing this, as LaTeX code is really at the end of the workflow while shortcodes evaluation are at the beginning, so very unlikely the example showed will work.

Alternatively, It's now possible to create custom formats/extensions and to use partials to get pretty much anything done.

• https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/creating.html