Can I embed from a .qmd file in book mode?

[tpoisot]

Description

I do not like notebooks. So when I saw in the documentation of the manuscript format that it was possible to embed a figure from a .qmd file, I was really excited!

I am trying to do this as part of a book project, and this line does not work:

{{< embed ../notebooks/sm-gradient-descent.qmd#fig-gradient-residuals >}}

The error I get is:

ERROR: Internal Error: Rendering an qmd notebook should only result in a single file. This attempt resulted in 0 file(s).

Is there a way to not use notebooks to embed results in a book format? This is doable for manuscripts, so it must be doable everywhere?

[tpoisot]

I think the issue is that quarto is trying to run the embedded file as an ipynb file, which is not the case?

[dragonstyle]

This does seem like a bug to me - we use the ipynb format as an intermediary format when embedding content from QMDs, but that shouldn't really affect things (we don't run the notebook, we run the QMD and render it to an ipynb which contains the outputs and code we need for embedding in a nice structure). I'm going to open an issue and take a look as soon as I can...

[dragonstyle]

(Issue is here: #6499)

[tpoisot]

Amazing, thanks for the prompt answer!