Evaluation of inline expressions (order of execution)

[hebertodelrio]

In my case in order to be able to do the trick to include inline expressions in a markdown cell (and be evaluated by the kernel), I was using the ipynb-filters option. Since the ipynb-filters option is now only processed if quarto is called on a ipynb file, I want to understand how is the order of execution, with a bit more detail than what is included in the documentation?:

How it Works
When you render a .qmd file with Quarto, the executable code blocks are processed by Jupyter, and the resulting combination of code, markdown, and output is converted to plain markdown. Then, this markdown is processed by Pandoc, which creates the finished format.

• Is quarto delivering the content of each qmd cell to jupyter for processing?
• Is quarto delivering the whole content of a qmd cell after processing it to make it look like a jupyter notebook?
• How is the jupyter kernel being called?
• Can the jupyter process (or processes that will depend on the answer to the first two questions) read some configuration file? Can it do some pre-processing? Can it do some post-processing?