can't make `quarto_titlepages` work following the instructions

[jgunstone]

I'm trying to run the examples in quarto_titlepages to check I understand how it works - when I run through the installation process and render on the command line I'm unable to reproduce the examples shown.

Steps to Reproduce

I did the following in a fresh Ubuntu2004 (and tried Ubuntu2204) install.

# running line by line
quarto --version
# > 1.3.450
mamba install -n quarto-test quarto  # create testing env
quarto install tinytex  # install latex: https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/pdf-engine.html
mamba activate quarto-test 
quarto use template nmfs-opensci/quarto_titlepages
# prompt download ? > Y
# prompt give dir ? > nmfs-opensci/quarto_titlepages
cd nmfs-opensci/quarto_titlepages
quarto render example_1.qmd --to pdf

# > 
(quarto-tests) jovyan@PORT4028:~/nmfs-opensci/quarto_titlepages$ quarto render example_1.qmd --to pdf
pandoc
  to: latex
  output-file: example_1.tex
  standalone: true
  pdf-engine: xelatex
  variables:
    graphics: true
    tables: true
  default-image-extension: pdf

metadata
  documentclass: scrartcl
  classoption:
    - DIV=11
    - numbers=noendperiod
  papersize: letter
  header-includes:
    - '\KOMAoption{captions}{tableheading}'
  block-headings: true
  title: A Sample Title - The SocioEconomic Aspects of Stock Assessments
  subtitle: with non-English diacritics in the author names. See documentation.
  author:
    - name: Jane Doe
      affiliations:
        - name: Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
          address: '500 Lafayette Road Saint Paul, MN 55155'
        - name: University of Minnesota
          department: Department of Mathematics
    - name: Eva Nováková
      affiliations:
        - name: Czech University of Life Sciences
          address: 'Družstevní 666, Vikýřovice, Czechia'
    - name: Matti Meikäläinen
      email: matti@jy.fi
      affiliations:
        - name: University of Kemijärvi
          department: Department of Biological and Environmental Science
          address: 'Kylmäniementie 79, 98120, KEMIJÄRVI, Finland'
    - name: Ashok Kumar
      affiliations:
        - name: University of Minnesota
          department: Department of Mathematics
        - name: HØnefoss Institute
          address: 'R Tradição 35, Portugal 2950-726'
  bibliography:
    - references.bib

WARNING: Unable to resolve crossref @eq-eq2
running xelatex - 1
  This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999995 (TeX Live 2023) (preloaded format=xelatex)
   restricted \write18 enabled.
  entering extended mode

running xelatex - 2
  This is XeTeX, Version 3.141592653-2.6-0.999995 (TeX Live 2023) (preloaded format=xelatex)
   restricted \write18 enabled.
  entering extended mode

Output created: example_1.pdf

(quarto-tests) jovyan@PORT4028:~/nmfs-opensci/quarto_titlepages$ quarto list tools
[✓] Inspecting tools

Tool         Status            Installed     Latest
chromium     Not installed     ---           869685
tinytex      Up to date        v2023.09      v2023.09

Does the bug relate to PDF output?

yes!

what it should look like:

what it looked like for me! quarto render example_1.qmd --to pdf

[ppssphysics]

I am running into the same issue, running on macOS Ventura 13.5.2 and quarto version 1.3.450. Followed the same steps as described by @jgunstone to compile the pdf but the formatting of the title page is inexistent in the output.

[eeholmes-uw]

Hi,

The correct command is

quarto render example_1.qmd --to titlepage-pdf

By using --to pdf, you are instructing Quatro to compile to a plain pdf format and to not use the titlepage-pdf format.

Regards,

Eli

[ppssphysics]

Thank you @eeholmes-uw, it works fine now. Thanks for taking the time to share the simple solution that explains many of my other issues with Quarto compilation.

[jgunstone]

thanks for the simple explanation and thanks for adding the note to the readme https://github.com/nmfs-opensci/quarto_titlepages/commit/ad9c0b1c8f8a9053610a899b56bcc28983e70c3f

will close now