moving to Quarto?

[pachadotdev]

IDK if there are plans for this, but I started moving it to Quarto here https://github.com/pachadotdev/rticles2

[cderv]

Can you detail what you mean by "Moving to Quarto" ?

It seems you want a R package like rticles but using quarto under the hood, is that so ?

Regarding Quarto output for Journals, this is something we thought about from the start.

Journals template are part of Quarto output formats as shown in https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/listing-journals.html This page contains a list of journals we started to offer a template. They live in the organization https://github.com/quarto-journals How to create format is described at https://quarto.org/docs/journals/formats.html

We did not plan for a R package rticles2 for this because

• Quarto aims to offer output format for all users, and not just R users. The Journals Articles specific format can be used with Quarto no matter the tooling (no computation, knitr computation, Jupyter computation).

• Quarto format are not developed in R and the templating system for LaTeX is improved (using partials). So using custom Quarto format is better.

• Extension mechanism does not require a R package to be available to use it.

We are happy to receive contribution to port new format to Quarto Journals organization from those available in rticles. The improved templating system, and specific Custom Format extension makes it possible to do better template that current situation in rticles - this is why porting format is not just copy pasting current template as we can do better.

Also happy to discuss what you have in mind with rticles2

• Does this need to be a fork of this project ?
• What is the purpose of having a '2' package ? Usually this is for a complete rewrite on new grounds (like httr -> httr2) ? What would it be for rticles ?

From your commit, I understand you want to do

• Rmd -> Qmd ?
• And keep template as they are in rticles without improving them ?

Thanks.

[pachadotdev]

Thanks. My idea was to move all the templates and simplify a bit.

[cderv]

This is more than welcome ! Were you planning to work on a specific template ?

There should be one Format extension available for each, with using partials to modify the default template accordingly, and setting some YAML options to tweak the default.

There is already a few examples of templates (that could also need improvment).

I am happy to review and help you get started on this!

[pachadotdev]

thanks a lot! I'll send you a draft once I have simplified the Elsevier templates

[cderv]

Just a head up that we have a elsevier version at https://github.com/quarto-journals/elsevier

Please feel free to send PR if it misses some feature and / or need some improvements.

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