latex display mode in Rmd vs quarto

[mitzimorris]

Summary:

The .Rmd files use latex display mode syntax for equations and set of equations - investigate how to make these render properly using quarto.

Description:

We plan to migrate from bookdown to quarto.
Although quarto can render .Rmd files, the latex display mode syntax \[ ... \] doesn't render properly.
The alternative is $$ ... $$, which changes the size and layout of summation and integral signs.

Additional Information:

Current Version:

v2.33.0

[mitzimorris]

further digging - [ ... \] is latex vs $$ ... $$ tex.
online discussion suggests that \begin{equation*} is equivalent to \[ and this seems to work in quarto.

cf: https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/503/why-is-preferable-to

[WardBrian]

Getting rid of as many calls to R as possible would also be nice - especially around table formatting.

We can look into replacements for the since(...) helper in the functions reference as well

[mitzimorris]

it's not clear to me whether or not quarto comes with R baked in, or whether it only uses R script to process Rmd. to be investigated at some future point.

[WardBrian]

I don't believe it does - at least, on my machine, I get an error if I don't have R already loaded in my environment