How to pass custom metadata to .tex header?

[franzeder]

Description

Following this discussion, I want to add a custom metadata option in the quarto preamble/yaml.

---
title: Paper Title
author: First Author
quote-style: "british"
format:
  pdf:
     include-in-header:
        - "include-in-header.tex"
---

I then want to include this quote-style option in the include-in-header.tex file:

\usepackage[style=$quote-style$]{csquotes}

This does not work. I get the following error-message when I try to render the file:

ERROR: 
compilation failed- error
Package csquotes Error: Quote style not defined.

See the csquotes package documentation for explanation.
Type  H <return>  for immediate help.
 ...                                              
                                                  
l.2497 \ProcessOptions*

What did I wrong? Is there another way to define the csquotes style in the Quarto-preamble?

[mcanouil]

This is a LaTeX error. Use keep-tex: true and investigate your LaTeX code/document.

Why are you not using templates and partials? These are précis there for what you want to do.

https://quarto.org/docs/journals/templates.html#latex-partials

[franzeder]

Thank you! I think I managed to solve the problem.

I put the \usepackage[style=$quote-style$]{csquotes} into a before-title.tex file. Then it works.

I also have to use the \enquote{} command in the quarto file if I want LaTeX to use the right quotation-marks. Or is there another way so that Quarto/LaTeX automatically replaces the "" in the quarto file with \enquote{} in the .tex file?

[mcanouil]

All the (Quarto) options that can be set at the YAML level should be described in: https://quarto.org/docs/reference/formats/pdf.html

Note that in the case of csquotes, there are two other discussions which are highly relevant here, especially the first one:

• How to use latex's `csquotes`? #11673
• Localized quotation marks #4992

[franzeder]

That is the perfect solution. Thank you!

I did the following:

1. Copy the pandoc-quotes.lua in a subdirectory called filter in your project folder.
2. Then add the following lines to the yaml preamble:

filters: [filters/pandoc-quotes.lua]
quot-lang: en-GB

And then use quotation marks in quarto. It will use the right qutoation marks in pdf, hmtl and docx.