Convert gfm to pdf?

[wyttenbach]

Description

Is quarto a good tool to convert gfm to pdf?
It doesn't seem to understand the gfm extension:

$ quarto render process.gfm --to pdf
ERROR: Can't determine execution engine for process.gfm
...

[mcanouil]

Quarto inputs are: markdown (md/qmd) and Jupyter notebook (ipynb).

Note that special GitHub syntax won't work even if you change the file extension.

[cderv]

Is quarto a good tool to convert gfm to pdf?

No Quarto is not a conversion tool. You need to use Pandoc directly for this. pandoc --from gfm --to pdf process.gfm

Quarto takes .md file or .qmd file using the Pandoc's Markdown syntax + extended syntax from quarto itself to render to various format.

It may not understannd specific GFM feature that do not overlap with default Markdown syntax.