Alternate language when writing in Quarto book format

[KennethGottfredsen]

I'm trying to code in the Quarto book format.

How do I override the values for the “Author” and “Published” captions when writing a book project?

--- title: "Min bog" author: "Kenneth Gottfredsen" date: 5/22/2022 language: title-block-author-single: "Forfatter" title-block-published: "Opdateret" ---

Above works when I'm typing in the document format, but it doesn't work when I copy and paste it into the yaml of a book project.

[cderv]

Above works when I'm typing in the document format, but it doesn't work when I copy and paste it into the yaml of a book project.

Where did you put the language field in the _quarto.yml file ? It should be placed at top level I believe.

Also you could have a look at new feature for our current pre-release, about project profile: https://quarto.org/docs/projects/profiles.html#language-content

[KennethGottfredsen]

Greetings cderv,

I don't have any language field specified, as far as I know Quarto don't support the Danish language anyway. It would be nice to reproduce my papers in my native language instead of English.

Basically what I want to do is the following:

1. Remove or at least rename the default "author" to forfatter and "published" to udgivet.
2. Rename the table of contents to "Indholdsfortegnelse".

This is my code copied directly from the yaml document:

project:
type: book

book:
title: "Studiebog"
author: "Kenneth Gottfredsen"
#author-title: "Kenneth Gottfredsen"
date: "18.9.2022"
chapters:
- index.qmd
- intro.qmd
- summary.qmd
- references.qmd

bibliography: references.bib

format:
html:
theme: darkly
pdf:
documentclass: scrreprt

editor: visual

I hope you know what I mean. Feel free to ask more questions.

/ Kenneth

[cderv]

See the doc about language then: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/language.html

• You can use alternate language for some fields using YAML value
• Or you can even provide your own custom translation by providing a full YAML file.

Everything is in the doc - look at current translation file for know field values supporting translation. Is that not working ?

And please do contribute Danish language in Quarto for native support of your language! https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/tree/main/src/resources/language#contributing-localizations

Thank you !

[KennethGottfredsen]

Hi again cderv,

I forgot to mention one more request.

How do I adjust the code chunks to include install.package('tidyverse') or pload::packman, to include the "copy to clipboard" option? When I type the function in an R code chunk I get an error. I need to do an assignment, and I want to show that I'm installing packages loading from the library. I want my readers to just be able to copy and paste my chunks directly. Is it because of my format is html?

/ Kenneth

[cderv]

please open a new thread for new issue. You can then ask your question by sharing some examples.

Some quick hints though:

• Inserting chunk with #| eval: FALSE chunk option will show the chunk without evaluating (which you usually want to do for explaining something like installating package, and not installing them during render)
• code copy button should be the default in HTML format.

[fredguth]

I found this question because I am also trying to change language of a book.

I followed instructions from documentation, but it didn't work:

project:
  type: book

book:
  title: "My book title"
  language: "pt-BR"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo

[fuhrmanator]

I hope you don't mind me posting them in this thread, but I found another "quirk" relating to lang: setting in dates that have names of months (not just for books). I'm on windows, so maybe it's OS specific? Here's a MWE:

---
title: "MWE"
lang: fr-FR
date: last-modified
date-format: "DD MMMM YYYY à HH:mm:ss Z"
---

Here's some text.

Rendering this in HTML or PDF will show a date that is not French (note "October" rather than "octobre").

MWE
DATE DE PUBLICATION
26 October 2022 à 09:59:56 -04:00

Here’s some text.

The workaround is to drop the country from the language, e.g., lang: fr -- it's probably another bug with pandoc?

MWE
DATE DE PUBLICATION
26 octobre 2022 à 10:00:57 -04:00

Here’s some text.

[cderv]

@fuhrmanator I don't know exactly about that one. I would open an issue with this small reprex. I believe @dragonstyle will then be able to look into this. Seems like we don't handle that all correctly to me. Thank you !

[dragonstyle]

Yes this is definitely a bug with the way we load date formatting locales- we have locales for fr, fr-ca, and fr-ch, but we are missing fallback logic for the case when we don't have a region specific locale that matches, but we do have a general language matching locale...

[dragonstyle]

I've created an issue here:

#3059

[cderv]

Awesome thanks you @dragonstyle and thank you @fuhrmanator for the report!

[fredguth]

For any one trying to solve this, create a _metadata.yml in your root directory with:

lang: pt-BR

As the language option in the book project is just for the csl (citations) (see #2707)

[fuhrmanator]

language: works for me on my book project to customize the translations https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/language.html#custom-translations

[fredguth]

Could you share your repo? If not I will try to reproduce a Minimum Working Example of the problem I was getting.

[fuhrmanator]

@fredguth my current repo doesn't use it anymore because I am trying to minimize the use of customizations. But at this point https://github.com/fuhrmanator/log210-ndc-quarto/blob/1664439764e76a173e8403d3c6dcff695fae6dec/_quarto.yml it was working as far as I know.

[fuhrmanator]

This is the line number: https://github.com/fuhrmanator/log210-ndc-quarto/blob/1664439764e76a173e8403d3c6dcff695fae6dec/_quarto.yml#L11