Can I inject a makedown text from ojs code ?

[kwangkim]

I understand I can make a dynamic pandoc markdown using python or r.
https://quarto.org/docs/computations/execution-options.html#inline-code
But I would like to use ojs to make a pandoc markdown cell.

I tried the following code.

```{ojs}
//| output: asis
//| echo: false
t=`|1|2|
|-|-|
|3|4|`
mt=md`${t}`
t
```
${t}

${mt}

|1|2|
|-|-|
|3|4|

The output is given by

• inline ojs code does not inject a pure text. It is contained in .

<span class="ojs-in-a-box-waiting-for-module-import observablehq">
<span>|1|2|
|-|-|
|3|4|</span>
</span>

• the output from md in ojs does not match with a pandoc markdown output.

Is there any way to inject a pure text into markdown cell from ojs?

Or is there any markdown js library which render like a pandoc?
It is ok to make a pandoc markdown cell from ojs.

[jjallaire]

There is no way to render pandoc markdown from within the browser (which is where OJS runs). You can of course use the simple OJS markdown renderer but that might not do everything you want. The closest thing to pandoc is to use markdown-it with a bunch of plugins to emulate pandoc features (but you still won't get anything close to real pandoc or obviously the quarto extensions to pandoc.

[kwangkim]

Is there any way to use output:asis for ojs?

If it is possible, since it just a pure text, I think we can use quarto pandoc markdown directly.
Python version works very well.

```{python}
#| output: asis
t="""|1|2|
|-|-|
|3|4|"""
print(t)
```

I think we just need to make an ojs version of print function. console.log did not work.

```{ojs}
//| output: asis
t=`|1|2|
|-|-|
|3|4|`
print(t)
```

[jjallaire]

OJS is rendered on the client (so well after Pandoc has done its thing!) It has a totally different computation model so can't emit markdown that will be seen by Pandoc -- it's rendered in the user's browser after they load the page rather than when you call quarto render

[kwangkim]

I did not know ojs runs on a client side.
I will use python for the markdown generation, instead.
Thank you very much for your advice.