Is there a variable with the value of repo-url?

[ijmitch]

Description

I would like to construct some links to, for example, milestones in my github repo and not repeat the repo's URL all over the place... something like:

[the next milestone]({{< variable-for-repo-url >}}/milestone/1)

but I can't see from the doc about variables what's available.

[cscheid]

If you use metadata, then the shortcode makes those available:

---
key: value
format: html
---

This is the value of `key`: {{< meta key >}}.

[ijmitch]

Yeah, I'm ok with having basically the same bit of info in _quarto.yml and _variables.yml.

[cscheid]

@cscheid Would that be hard to make shortcode work in basically any field? (and not a too bad idea, especially regarding YAML validation)

It would for 1.4, because shortcode evaluation happens in Lua, but allowing it to expand in metadata means we would have to honor the expanded value in Typescript. And we use metadata values in Typescript often before we call Pandoc (where Lua execution happens)

[mcanouil]

Should I open an enhancement issue to track this for 1.5 or later then?
(it's kind of related with another issue about that not all text fields can evaluate shortcodes).

[cscheid]

(it's kind of related with another issue about that not all text fields can evaluate shortcodes).

If we already have an issue open, would you mind locating that and adding a link to this discussion? Thanks.

[mcanouil]

The issue I was referring to is:

• Navbar - tools - text doesn't render markdown #6359

For now the issue is really about text not other keys.