?(caption) in DOCX when eval: false and output: true

[rgaiacs]

Bug description

Zip with minimal working example

Consider the follow Quarto document

---
title: "Minimal Working Example"
---

Foo

```{r}
#| echo: false
#| eval: false
#| output: true
#| label: tbl-mwe
#| tbl-cap: MWE.

data.frame(
  x = c(1, 2),
  y = c(1, 2)
)
```

Bar

Convert it to DOCX with quarto render --to html produces

Note the ?(caption) between Foo and Bar produced as the output of the cell block.

Convert the same document to HTML with quarto render --to html produces

The cell block does NOT produce any visible output.

Change output: true to output: false resolves the problem but would be great that eval: false implies output: false for DOCX as it does for HTML.

User Environment

quarto check:

[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.3.34
      Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.9.10 (Conda)
      Path: /home/raniere/mambaforge/bin/python
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with conda install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.2.1
      Path: /usr/lib/R
      LibPaths:
        - /home/raniere/R/x86_64-pc-linux-gnu-library/4.2
        - /usr/local/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/lib/R/site-library
        - /usr/lib/R/library
      rmarkdown: 2.16

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

Checklist

• Please include a minimal, fully reproducible example in a single .qmd file? Please provide the whole file rather than the snippet you believe is causing the issue.
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[EllaKaye]

Hello. I'm actually having a similar problem with both html and pdf formats. This is my reprex:

---
title: "Quarto table caption bug"
format: html
---

```{r}
#| label: tbl-bug
#| tbl-cap: "I shouldn't see this caption since `eval: false` is set and no table in printed."
#| eval: false
data.frame(x = 1:3, y = 4:6) |> 
  knitr::kable()
```

I've got the whole thing at https://github.com/EllaKaye/quarto-tbl-cap-bug, with the output at https://ellakaye.github.io/quarto-tbl-cap-bug/, generated under v1.4.487.

With v1.3.450 I see "Table 1: ?(caption)" and with v1.4.487 I see the full caption "Table 1: I shouldn’t see this caption since eval: false is set and no table in printed."

I'm on macOS 14.1, RStudio 2023.09.1+494

Quarto 1.4.487
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.8: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.55.0: OK
      Deno version 1.33.4: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.4.487
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (external install)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: TinyTex
      Path: /Users/ellakaye/Library/TinyTeX/bin/universal-darwin
      Version: 2022

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.9.6
      Path: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: (None)

      Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
      Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.3.1
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Users/ellakaye/Library/R/arm64/4.3/library
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.3-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: 1.42
      rmarkdown: 2.21

[✓] Checking Knitr engine render......OK

[cderv]

I believe this issue has been resolved, but differently that it was expected. So we can consider it as changed or solved.

Convert the same document to HTML with quarto render --to html produces

Now HTML produce with latest 1.4 version a caption even when no chunk

And Docx now does the same.

So This issue is probably to be considered solved somehow, and this new behavior is the one discussed in

• Table caption showing even when eval: false and there is no table #7520