A question about orders of processing for a qmd document

[kwangkim]

I would like to know how quarto converts a qmd document.

For example, if I convert a qmd document with python and ojs code into a html with a pandoc filter.
I guess quarto runs like this.

qmd  ==> ipynb  ===run python ==> md ==run pandoc filter==> md ==run ojs==> html

Is it a correct way to process?

I also want to know whether my guess is correct for a pdf file.

qmd  ==> ipynb  ===run python ==> md ==run pandoc filter==> md ==run pdfxelatex==> pdf

Thank you.

[rgaiacs]

@kwangkim Thanks for the question. The conversion steps will change based on the settings.

For your executable Jupyter Notebook Python with OJS, my understanding is

1. Convert .qmd to .ipynb
2. Execute cells in .ipynb and store the output in .ipynb (done by nbconvert)
3. Convert .ipynb with code output to .qmd
4. Convert .qmd to .html (done with Pandoc and filters)
5. Run OJS (done in the client web browser)

For PDF, the process is similar

1. Convert .qmd to .ipynb
2. Execute cells in .ipynb and store the output in .ipynb (done by nbconvert)
3. Convert .ipynb with code output to .qmd
4. Convert .qmd to .tex (done with Pandoc and filters)
5. Convert .tex to .pdf (done with LaTeX engine)

Please note that OJS is NOT supported when rendering your document to PDF.

(small edits by @cscheid for clarification, though the original answer was 99.9% right!)

[kwangkim]

Thank you very much for your explanation.