How do I use modified partials in website ?

[lakonis]

Description

I have created a quarto journal template with modified partials (metadata.html and title-block.html), and i installed this journal template into my website project.

I was hoping to apply this template to certain pages of the website, but the partials are not applied, although the css is working. It seems to be using the default template despite my YAML declaration:

---
format:
  mytemplate-html:
    template-partials:
      - metadata.html
      - title-block.html
... 

So I am wondering if Quarto allow the use of different template into the same website. And if it is, what is the procedure to create, use et apply a specific template to a specific page of the website. Maybe I misunderstood the principle of journal template ?

For your information, since my Yaml schema is different than the one used by Quarto (the reason why I am trying to apply my own template), I had to add validate-yaml: false (see advice) in order to render my page.

[dragonstyle]

Normally, I would expect the extension itself to register and provide these partials, like:

contributes:
  formats:
    html:
      template-partials:
        - metadata.html
        - title-block.html

Then users of the extension could simple write:

format:
  mytemplate-html: default

You may be trying to accomplish something different, but wanted to highlight this in case it is helpful.

[cderv]

@lakonis please do share a git repo with a demo website and your extension so that we can clone and reproduce the issue you are encountering. Thank you !

[lakonis]

Here it is. Sorry, it is my first steps with quarto and templating : https://github.com/lakonis/stylo-quarto
I have created a journal template using quarto create extension journal, hoping I could use such extension in a website project. Let me know if I did something wrong !

[lakonis]

Maybe this repo is not enough for you to debug ? Let me know if I can provide something else. Thanks!

[dragonstyle]

In your example repo, I corrected the paths in the _extension.yml file to point to the partials:

title: Stylo
author: Nicolas Sauret
version: 1.0.0
quarto-required: ">=1.4.0"
contributes:
  formats:
    common:
      toc: true
      filters:
        - stylo.lua
    pdf:
      include-in-header: header.tex
    html:
      template-partials:
        - partials/metadata.html
        - partials/title-block.html
      css: styles.css

then in the template.qmd file I simplified the format:

---
title: Stylo Template
format:
  stylo-pdf:
    keep-tex: true  
  stylo-html: default
...
---

and finally I run the command as follows to preview using the style-html format:

quarto preview template.qmd --to stylo-html

and all appears to be working. HTH!

[lakonis]

It does, thank you very much !

I assumed that the partials templates (metadatas.html) had to be in the partials/ directory, therefore their relative paths were not necessary. I can go on (thanks!) and I will try to provide a full Quarto journal template for documents produced with stylo.huma-num.fr