New title block (front-page) items via title-block.html (?)

[artahy]

Hello there,

This is related to some previous discussions (#3725, #3162), but let me ask a clarifying question (and apologies if there is a known trivial solution to this that have ignored, I am a newcomer to Quarto):

I'm using Jupyter Lab (and Python), and then Quarto when producing a (very simple) webpage. In particular, I am trying to customise the title block to add new items, such as an affiliation, on the front page (in addition to "Author") when rendering Quarto output to html.

I have followed the advice to use the partial title-block.html , but for some reason, it seems not to alter the front-matter. It is as if Quarto did not recognise that it should use title-block.htlm-file when rendering my ipynb-file.

I have included the following in the YAML:

format: 
  html:
    template-partials:
      - title-block.htlm 

and I am using the example for title-block.html from #3162, provided by @dragonstyle to include author affiliations (which I also have in the YAML).

What should I do to implement the desired change?

All kinds of suggestions would be most welcome.

[cderv]

I have followed the advice to use the partial title-block.html , but for some reason, it seems not to alter the front-matter.

Can you a reproducible example (as a Github repo maybe ? or a zip bundle ?) ? I tried to reproduce with a simple example and when modifying title block, it correctly get taken into account. Which title block exactly are you using ? There are several shared in #3162 thread.

Thank you

[artahy]

A brief follow-up (sorry for not being explicit on this):

What I am trying to do here is to be able to display the acknowledgements as a new item on the front page.

Thanks,

[cderv]

In your YAML you have put the acknowledgment field at the same level of author

author:
  - name: My Name
    email: [email protected]
    affiliations: 
        - name: My University
          department: My Department 
          city: My City
          state: My Country
          postal-code: 12345
    acknowledgements: My acknowledgements. It'd be great if others can see it. 
abstract: |
  This will be a great abstract. 

but then you are calling in template as a main variable

$if(acknowledgements)$
<p class="acknowledgements">$acknowledgements$</p>
$endif$

So you need to either

• put the field at first level in your YAML

   author:
     - name: My Name
       email: [email protected]
       affiliations: 
           - name: My University
             department: My Department 
             city: My City
             state: My Country
             postal-code: 12345
   acknowledgements: My acknowledgements. It'd be great if others can see it. 
   abstract: |
     This will be a great abstract.

• Call the value by author in your template.

Either way it should work.

[artahy]

Thank you for your advice.

I corrected this and tried both ways -- but, unfortunately, the acknowledgement text does not show up.

I started to wonder whether it might be the case that Quarto does not see the edited title-block.html -file. Are there e.g. any instructions on how one can check where Quarto looks to search for it when rendering notebook -files?

Or are there perhaps other things I could check?

[dragonstyle]

The name of the partial is important - it must match the name of our partials in order to substitute for them. In this case, it appears that there is a typo in the extension (htlm vs html). If you rename your file and the file name in the YAML, things should work as you expect.

[artahy]

Great, these two suggestions solved the problem, now the acknowledgements show up on the front page.

Thank you very much @cderv and @dragonstyle for your help.