Is it possible to mix a quarto blog with a quarto book?

[chipbrock]

Description

I have built a quarto blog shell that has a clumsy way of grouping posts into "categories" (I call them "Series") which collect pedagogical educational posts of like kind and in some cases, in a sequential order. It's here, but with only a few fake posts to establish "proof of life":
blog shell

In order to navigate to and within the categories, next/previous linking would be nice as would a TOC that would be limited to just the category, not the whole site. I gather that next/previous is a matter of development currently.

A couple of years ago I built a Jupyterbook site for a class and I assume that JB kinds of cross referencing and TOC capabilities are the same in Quarto Book. It's here for your amusement: jupyterbook

It dawned on me that maybe instead of my clumsy "categories" I could have a handful of small Quarto Books. Then all of the navigation is taken care of.

My questions are whether a site with blog posts and books would play nicely together within one Quarto site:

1. Is that even remotely doable in an efficient way for me and for readers? I think of Quarto Books as stand-alone objects with their own processing and rendering. Separately rendering and hosting would be unfortunate and probably a killer.
2. Could I maintain a global tag set that would work within a "regular" post in the Blog part and also in a "Book"?
3. Assuming this works, any suggestions on a good way to set up the overriding shell of pages to act as a dashboard and menu navigation to get around? You'll see that I'm nesting menus now.

Advice would be appreciated. I am using Quarto 1.5.57 and work on macs and tend to work in VSCode.

[mcanouil]

Have you looked at the other threads on this topic? Such as

• Nesting a book into a website #3505

[chipbrock]

Thanks. I didn't find that...maybe "nesting" was the keyword. But it suggests what I feared, namely that this is not really doable as a coherent whole. I have to think on it some more as "books" really seems like a nice way to structure the tutorial-like posts.