"How it Works" docs vs. CLI

[th0ger]

Description

Quarto: How it Works - This seems clear when getting started.

My next questions were: What does these .md look like? What is the processing flow for (executed) ipynb?

In real life, the CLI says:

$ quarto render hello-quarto.qmd
Starting python3 kernel...Done
Executing 'hello-quarto.ipynb'
  Cell 1/3...Done
  Cell 2/3...Done
  Cell 3/3...Done

pandoc
  to: html
  output-file: hello-quarto.html
...
Output created: hello-quarto.html

and

$ quarto render hello-jupyter.ipynb
pandoc
  to: html
  output-file: hello-jupyter.html
...
Output created: hello-jupyter.html

So the actual flow look more like

UPDATE: Inserted .md:

flowchart LR
    ipynb[".ipynb<br/>(executed)"]
    qmd[".qmd"]
    iptmp[".ipynb<br/>(intermediate)"]
    md[".md<br/>(intermediate)"]
    pandoc(pandoc)
    ipynb -- convert --> md
    qmd -- quarto convert -->iptmp
    iptmp -- Jupyter exec-->iptmp
    iptmp -- convert --> md
    md --> pandoc
    pandoc --> .html
    pandoc --> .docx
    pandoc --> .pdf

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What am I getting wrong? Is there a markdown at all?
(I dont use R.)

[mcanouil]

For short Pandoc reads from markdown.
There are keep-* options to keep the intermediate files, see https://quarto.org/docs/computations/execution-options.html#intermediates.

[th0ger]

Thanks, I have added the .md intermediate to the diagram.