(project-relative) absolute path in .qmd metadata

[kris-brown]

Hi, I'm trying to use a single .ejs template for many listings in qmd files throughout my entire project.

Quarto seems to interpret the value I put for template: as a relative path, even if I prefix it with / (which works for hyperlinks internal to my quarto project). Is this expected behavior? Is there anyway to get access to the project root when specifying a path in the metadata?

[kris-brown]

(note that the purpose of these listings is to address the issue of backlinks (#1585 and #1353), so I've written a script to scrape all my project's .qmd files for internal links and then generate one .yml file per .qmd file that contains info about all the backlinks. If that issue is resolved in a more robust way, then this issue is moot!)

[kris-brown]

I made a minimal example repository here