Access to nested YAML front matter values as listings fields

[the-solipsist]

Description

Currently, I can access nested YAML front matter values in template partials. E.g., I can use citation.container-title in this manner:

  $if(citation.container-title)$
  <div>
    <div class="quarto-title-meta-heading">Publication</div>
    <div class="quarto-title-meta-contents">
      <p class="publication">$citation.container-title$</p>
    </div>
  </div>
  $endif$

However, I cannot use citation.container-title in the listings fields:

listing:
  contents: press
  type: table
  sort: date
  categories: numbered
  fields:
  - date
  - title
  - citation.container-title
  - publication
  - categories
  field-display-names: 
    citation.container-title: "Publication"
    publication: "Publication"

While I know I can modify the entire listings template, I'm wondering if there's an easier way to get access to the contents of citation.container-title for use in listings.

Note: I can gain access to custom fields like publication above without any hassle. But that would mean I copy-paste every container-title value into a separate 1st level YAML key called publication, and I'm trying to avoid doing that.

[dragonstyle]

Nice suggestion - I've made a change to support this and it should be available in the next Quarto pre-release. Thanks for reporting!

[mcanouil]

Closing this as completed then.

[the-solipsist]

I just spent this evening working around this, setting up a pandoc template to duplicate the values, etc. :-)

In any case, I'm sure this would be of use to other people! Thanks so much!

[cderv]

As closing keyword in commit does not leave a note in a discussion, here is for reference the associated commit that fixed this: ca4218a