Keep-ipynb in the notebooks folder

[fredguth]

Description

I am following the Manuscript guide with the VS Code template repo.

I changed _quarto.yml to keep the intermediate .ipynb file:

project:
  type: manuscript

execute:
  freeze: auto
  keep-ipynb: true
...

It creates and keeps an index.ipynb in the root folder. Shouldn't this file be in the notebooks folder? Maybe with the name notebooks/Article_Notebook.ipynb instead of index.ipynb.

p.s. I am not sure if this is a feature request or just a discussion I would like to have about an implementation detail.

[cscheid]

Shouldn't this file be in the notebooks folder?

No. keep-ipynb is a debugging aid. It preserves the intermediate file that Quarto generates, and is placed in the same directory because it's not meant as an output artifact (it won't have any of the output features you expect, like resolved crossrefs etc). You need to use format: ipynb if you want that.

[fredguth]

Ah, ok. Got it. I like the fact that .qmd are easy to track in git, but am used to write in Jupyter. As the rendered html showed the Article Notebook with other notebooks, I thought there would be a good place.

I am still thinking about how should I structure my folders (I also use nbdev). Is there a way to config where to keep the ipynb?

[mcanouil]

The best you can do is change the name of the notebook (output-file) at the format level as output-dir is a project wide option with no fine grained control (for now).
And if you are talking about the notebooks linked to the HTML document/website, I don't think there is a way to set its location.