Quarto book generates docx, header, and footer issues

[chuxinyuan]

Description

I want to finish my thesis through Quarto, but I do not know how to set the header and footer. The following is the format requirements of the school.

• Headers start in the chapter after the summary, and odd and even pages have different headers.

• Page numbers are numbered from the chapter following the summary and are displayed in the center of the footer.

Take Quarto book, which comes with RStudio

First, I added '\newpage' at the end of each chapter. I need to set the header and page number starting from the Introduction chapter.

Second, yaml file added docx format

project:
  type: book

book:
  title: "Book header and footer"
  chapters:
    - index.qmd
    - intro.qmd
    - summary.qmd
    - references.qmd

bibliography: references.bib

format:
  html:
    theme: cosmo
  docx:
    toc: false

At present, my book generates both html and docx, please ask everyone how I can achieve it, thank you.

[mcanouil]

First, \newpage is a LaTeX command.
You should use the documented method for page breaks, see https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#page-breaks.
Second, if you don't like Pandoc Word template, then create your own as documented, see https://quarto.org/docs/output-formats/ms-word-templates.html#sec-docx-create-template.

[chuxinyuan]

Hahaha, the amazing thing is that it still works for docx. But I'm going to take your advice and paginate with quarto sample code.

[mcanouil]

Maybe Pandoc parses it, and replaces it.
In my opinion, using the agnostic syntax is less ambiguous and should be preferred.

[jacques-shebehe]

@chuxinyuan I am struggling with the same issue.

Have you found a working solution for having alternating text on left & write in header/footer of odd and even pages?

I have not been able to achieve it with custom-reference.docx.

Any help is appreciated!