Customizing Book Output - no support for LaTeX output?

[anna57394]

Hi,

I would like to make some changes to the pdf output of my book project. In the respective quarto documention, it's recommended to do so by customizing the LaTeX output. However, following the instructions given there, the _book directory of my project is wiped clean and I get the following warning.

PS C:\Users\...\Book> quarto render --to latex WARNING: The latex format is not supported by book projects

Did I get something wrong? Is there any alternative way to render LaTeX output from my book project?

[rgaiacs]

Hi @annameiermueller,

What version of quarto are you using? Things works as expected for me with Quarto 1.3.296.

quarto create-project --type book produces files to start with.

quarto render --to latex render the project to LaTeX. The .tex file is available as _book/book-latex/5049.tex. pdflatex _book/book-latex/5049.tex compiles without error.

Note that quarto render --to html will wipe clean the _book folder. This is default Quarto behaviour. The documentation has the following instruction to avoid the wipe clean.

At this point you should probably make a copy or git branch of the _book directory to perform your final LaTeX modifications within (since the modifications you make to LaTeX will not be preserved in your markdown source, and will therefore be overwritten the next time you render).

Environment

quarto check outputs

[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
      Pandoc version 3.1.1: OK
      Dart Sass version 1.55.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
      Version: 1.3.296
      Path: /opt/quarto/bin

[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK

[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
      Version: 3.10.6
      Path: /usr/bin/python3
      Jupyter: 5.2.0
      Kernels: python3

(-) Checking Jupyter engine render....Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/opt/quarto/share/jupyter/jupyter.py", line 21, in <module>
    from notebook import notebook_execute, RestartKernel
  File "/opt/quarto/share/jupyter/notebook.py", line 18, in <module>
    from nbclient import NotebookClient
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'nbclient'
[✓] Checking Jupyter engine render....OK

[dragonstyle]

LaTeX book support is new in Quarto 1.3, FYI.

[anna57394]

Problem solved. I did use the wrong version of quarto. Thank you so much!