Can docx or typst snippets be inserted via ipynb cell output MIME types?

[jkrumbiegel]

Description

I want to render specific tables in docx and typst format. I've already found that I can insert the raw code for these via markdown cells with raw types {=openxml} or {=typst}, respectively. These markdown blocks themselves have text/markdown MIME type in the JSON underlying the saved .ipynb file. What I'm wondering and cannot find info on is whether I could also directly return such code in cells with specific MIME types, for example text/typst or application/openxml (I have no idea if there are actually MIME types corresponding to these formats). Is the raw markdown block my only option in those cases?

[mcanouil]

You can use output: asis and output the proper markup in your code cells.

[jkrumbiegel]

I see, so the mechanism with the ipynb is completely separate from the mechanism with knitr. And if I understand you correctly, knitr is marking cells in the markdown it outputs with asis if it wants pandoc to splice these directly into the output format. For example, when a gt table is returned from a cell (no other action seems to be necessary to get such a table to render in, lets say, docx, from what I've seen online, for example in this thread #7151).

We're in the process of developing an alternative runner for qmd files that doesn't depend on Python and jupyter (https://github.com/PumasAI/QuartoNotebookRunner.jl/). But our intermediate representation is currently ipynb notebooks, and not directly markdown (which knitr seems to do).

We may be missing handling of those mimetype in Quarto.

Just to clarify again, I made up those two mime types, or at least I couldn't find clear guidelines online what mime types - if any - are considered the standard for typst and docx documents.

[jkrumbiegel]

Can you share an example of the Julia code that would output what you expect?

I don't have anything specific to show, as I'm still in the planning phase for how this feature should work in our runner. The basic question was whether quarto would pick up any MIME types in an ipynb for direct inclusion in a document, but it doesn't seem to be the case from what I'm reading here. The differences with knitr you pointed out seem to support that.

[cderv]

Thanks a lot for all those precisions!

I am pinging @cscheid here as I think he will be interested in this discussion. I believe the Quarto team can help with your project https://github.com/PumasAI/QuartoNotebookRunner.jl/ either by improving our doc or do some slight modification that would help provide broader support in Julia community

About QuartoNotebookRunner.jl, what is the aim exactly? Can you explain more ?

[MichaelHatherly]

About QuartoNotebookRunner.jl, what is the aim exactly? Can you explain more ?

@cderv #7989 explains in brief why we're doing this. Happy to discuss further if needed though :)

[cscheid]

Yeah, we would definitely like to help.

I think it might be better to move this discussion to email, though - do you mind reaching out at [email protected]? Thanks.