Why PDF output differs when i run the same .md document under two machines

[kostadinoff]

Description

I have the same yaml for a qmd. However, when i run it using home pc the headings are extreeme

The same instructions, but rendered by my laptops gives me something like this:

The yamls is

title: "Упражнение 07 2023/2024 г."
subtitle: "Репродуктивна етика"
author: "ас. д-р Костадин Костадинов"
format:
pdf:
toc: false
mainfont: Pliska
sansfont: Pliska
monofont: Pliska
fontsize: 12pt
geometry: "margin=2.5cm"
number-sections: false
colorlinks: true
header-includes: '\usepackage{sectsty}\allsectionsfont{\centering}\usepackage{indentfirst}'

Can you help me solve that and probably a way to have consistancy

[cderv]

This is puzzling...

Several question to help understand

• Do you have the same version of Quarto on all environment ? This would not be ideal, but differences may comes from Quarto handling, or from Pandoc differences (different quarto versions can embed different Pandoc version)

• Can you add keep-md: true and keep-tex: true to your rendering and then compare them between your two environment? (using VSCODE compare file feature for example)

• If everything is the same on this, there is still the Layer of LaTeX distribution. Do you use the same on both environment ?

[kostadinoff]

The only difference i find is that:

in the enviroment 1:

\begin{document}
\maketitle
\ifdefined\Shaded\renewenvironment{Shaded}{\begin{tcolorbox}[borderline west={3pt}{0pt}{shadecolor}, interior hidden, sharp corners, breakable, enhanced, boxrule=0pt, frame hidden]}{\end{tcolorbox}}\fi

while in enviroment 2:

\ifdefined\Shaded\renewenvironment{Shaded}{\begin{tcolorbox}[breakable, borderline west={3pt}{0pt}{shadecolor}, boxrule=0pt, interior hidden, enhanced, frame hidden, sharp corners]}{\end{tcolorbox}}\fi

[cderv]

It should not be enough to give you different styling as that.

Apart from this content, the two .tex file are identical ?

[kostadinoff]

Absolutely.
What's more is that both systems are windows. Quarto and pandoc are the same version on both machines. No affiliation packages are installed. MiTex runs underneath in both cases.

[cderv]

If the two tex file are the same, then their rendering through your LaTeX installation should work the same.

You could try to render both .tex using your MikTeX and see the outputs. This would not involve Quarto, and would tell us if it works without it.

After rendering to .tex what Quarto is doing is just calling your LaTeX distribution (xelatex by default) to render to PDF.