How to include chapters from subdirectories in quarto book project?

[chrizz89]

I would like to organize my quarto book project by putting the *qmd files for each chapter in a separate sub directory.

I tried the following in the _quarto.yml

book:
  chapters:
    - subdir/chapter.qmd

but this does not work. Is it possible to organize my project in that way?

[jjallaire]

This does indeed work. Here is a simple git repo demonstrating: https://github.com/jjallaire/subdir-chapters/

[jgunstone]

hi there, is this sort of syntax:

book:
  chapters:
    - subdir/*.qmd

to recursively add all files in that dir as chapters?

[mcanouil]

If you tried, did not work, and it's not documented, then the answer is no.

[jgunstone]

understood. this functionality is supported for websites so I thought I might have been missing something

• tried
• did not work
• not documented

[mcanouil]

Now, you could open a feature request explaining why it could be useful to have this: https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/new?category=feature-requests (if no issues/discussions are already open about this)

[jgunstone]

it looks like someone has in-fact already requested this feature
#4874
sorry for bad git-ing!