`latex-...` options not picked up?

[devmotion]

Bug description

Hej!

In a larger project, I would like to use my own latexmk pipeline because manually running latexmk with the LaTeX file generated by Quarto works successfully whereas compilation is unsuccessful when I try to generate the PDF with quarto and pdf-engine: latexmk. Based on the docs, I assumed I could opt out of Quarto's machinery by setting latex-auto-mk: false. However, changing this setting does seem to make a difference (as someone else had noticed before apparently: #819 (comment)). In contrast to other configurations, these options also don't show up in the pandoc/metadata output in the terminal.

So I tried to set some of the other latex-... options and they also did not seem to affect compilation. For instance, I played around with the following somewhat minimal example:

---
title: MWE
format:
  pdf:
    pdf-engine: latexmk
    pdf-engine-opt: '-verbose'
    latex-auto-mk: false
    latex-output-dir: "/home/david/quarto-mwe/"
---

A MWE for debugging the `latex-` options.

I rendered it by running

quarto render mwe.qmd --log-level=debug

in the terminal. Both with Quarto 1.2.335 and 1.3.34 (Fedora 37), the latex-... options do not change the output in the terminal and, e.g., regardless of the option latex-output-dir always a directory /tmp/... is used by latexmk.

Am I doing something wrong or do these options not work currently?

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