Using qmd files in the front matter

[fredguth]

I have been trying to create a Project template for a custom thesis with the Brazilian Academic Standard (ABNT) extending dragonstyle/abnt proof-of-concept.

My problem is that I want to let people write "dedication" and "acknowledgment" pages in the frontmatter by adding qmd files.
Ideally the _quarto.yml would have a frontmatter section similar to chapters:

...
frontmatter:
   - frontmatter/dedication.qmd
   - frontmatter/acknowledgments.qmd
   - frontmatter/epigraph.qmd
chapters:
  - chapters/introduction.qmd
...

The table of contents would be rendered between the frontmatter and the body/chapters section.

Extensions like [Quarto Thesis] or [Quarto Titlepages] handle these with tex includes and that is how I am dealing with it now. One could also just use metadata and include them in the tex (which I dislike because you end up with a huge yaml file). But I wonder if it would be possible to use the frontmatter/dedication.qmd tex output in the before-body.tex.

[fredguth]

[momenezes]

Hi,
@fredguth any progress regarding this problem?

I am also interested in creating a quarto template for our institution, Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares - IPEN-CNEN, São Paulo, SP, Brazil, based on ABNT.

Our librarians have published a guide with further requirements regarding ABNT itself, such as inserting the full citation for the thesis/dissertation in the abstract (resumo) just below the title.

However, I am currently stuck on the front matter content and cannot find a way to insert it before the table of contents (sumário), as required by ABNT.

I have tried the suggestion given here #2543 (reply in thread), but the generated LaTeX files are complete documents (with documentclass) and were not inserted using the include-before-body option.

I had placed this chunk in the index.qmd with the hope of generating correct LaTeX files that could be included in the main file.

     ```{bash include=FALSE}
      quarto render abstract.qmd --to latex
      quarto render acknowledgements.qmd --to latex
      quarto render declaration.qmd --to latex
     ```

Any comments on how to add front matter to a quarto template would be highly appreciated.

Tks in advance

[fredguth]

No I haven't, I stopped working on this project... I still have interest though... I hope to find time to come back to it. I will look for my latest version to see if I made it public.

[fredguth]

[email protected]:fredguth/abnt-quarto.git
Not sure if it is of any help. Sorry 🤷

[mariomack]

Hi @fredguth,
Thanks for you reply; yeah, I understand.
I'll take a closer look at your abnt-quarto repo; it seems to have some good strategies I didn 't know yet.
Thanks again. Regards.