Remove {.content-hidden} during conversion to jupyter notebook?

[daeh]

Description

When I use quarto convert, the exported Jupyter notebook includes all of the hidden content. Is there anyway to prevent this? It's great to be able to have notes in qmd files that are not exported to HTML. I would really like to be able to export clean ipynb files as well.

Thanks!

---
title: "Jupyter Notebook Test"
jupyter: python3
---

Some text 1

```{python}
print("pycell 1")
```

Some text 2

::: {.content-hidden}
HIDDEN
:::

generates

{
  "cells": [
    {
      "cell_type": "markdown",
      "metadata": {},
      "source": [
        "---\n",
        "title: \"Jupyter Notebook Test\"\n",
        "jupyter: python3\n",
        "---\n",
        "\n",
        "Some text 1"
      ]
    },
    {
      "cell_type": "code",
      "metadata": {},
      "source": [
        "print(\"pycell 1\")"
      ],
      "execution_count": null,
      "outputs": []
    },
    {
      "cell_type": "markdown",
      "metadata": {},
      "source": [
        "Some text 2\n",
        "\n",
        "::: {.content-hidden}\n",
        "HIDDEN\n",
        ":::"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "kernelspec": {
      "name": "python3",
      "language": "python",
      "display_name": "Python 3 (ipykernel)",
      "path": "~/coding/-GitRepos/comosoco/project/.venv/share/jupyter/kernels/python3"
    }
  },
  "nbformat": 4,
  "nbformat_minor": 4
}

Environment

Quarto 1.6.40
[✓] Checking environment information...
      Quarto cache location: ~/Library/Caches/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.4.0: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.70.0: OK
      Deno version 1.46.3: OK
      Typst version 0.11.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.6.40
      Path: /Applications/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking tools....................OK
      TinyTeX: (not installed)
      Chromium: (not installed)

[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
      Using: Installation From Path
      Path: /Library/TeX/texbin
      Version: 2024

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.13.0
      Path: ~/coding/-GitRepos/comosoco/project/.venv/bin/python3
      Jupyter: 5.7.2
      Kernels: python3

[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[✓] Checking R installation...........OK
      Version: 4.4.2
      Path: /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Resources
      LibPaths:
        - /Library/Frameworks/R.framework/Versions/4.4-arm64/Resources/library
      knitr: (None)
      rmarkdown: (None)

      The knitr package is not available in this R installation.
      Install with install.packages("knitr")
      The rmarkdown package is not available in this R installation.
      Install with install.packages("rmarkdown")

[daeh]

Same is true if I do

::: {.content-hidden unless-profile="development"} 

and

quarto convert --profile production

[mcanouil]

quarto convert is not quarto render.
Why do you expect a conversion to remove contents?

[daeh]

fundamental misunderstanding, I guess. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

[mcanouil]

What you want is not to convert then.
The purpose of the convert command is to convert so it keeps the content otherwise it's not a conversion.

Use format: ipynb instead.

[mcanouil]

It great to be able to have notes in qmd files that are not exported to HTML

To be clear, there is no real comment syntax in Quarto as of today (v1.7.8), e.g., code cells inside .content-hidden will be evaluated but not included.

• How to comment out some contents in .qmd files? #3330

[daeh]

Thanks. Yeah, comments more like 'notes to self'.