Helper to encode data for Quarto processing inside HTML table

[cderv]

See explanation at

• Mathjax is not working properly with kableExtra html format in Quarto haozhu233/kableExtra#746 (comment)

related to

• Math formatting does not work in styled KableExtra tables quarto-cli#555

Docs for Quarto feature is at: https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/tables.html#html-tables

Example:

as_quarto_markdown <- function(content) {
  sprintf('<span data-qmd="%s">%s</span>', content, content)
}

this could be used in table to make HTML with special attributes for Quarto to process and replace

• Should handle span and div. as_quarto_markdown(..., block = TRUE) ?
• Should handle complex content by base64 encoding (using xfun::base64_encode() and data-qmd-base64
• Should probably have a markdown with special class to mark as it as content to not escape (using I() like for new R quarto inline ?)

[fgardavaud]

hello @cderv do you plan to launch the new version to correct this issue. I'm facing with this on a document and your support would be very appreciable. All the best.

[cderv]

do you plan to launch the new version to correct this issue.

Hello @fgardavaud !

Can you help me understand better ? This is issue is about a feature request to quarto R package to add a helper for package author to use. (I added label to make this clearer).

So adding this for next version won't solve any issues linked to kableExtra. They could already encode data the right way.

Maybe I misunderstood though 🤷

Anyhow, I'll add this in next version yes. Just need to make time on quarto R package instead of Quarto CLI.

[fgardavaud]

hello @cderv
I potentially make a mistake on this post. I was facing with a problem with Mathjax. You could see this page for the context and the solution :

My issue is only solve with html output and I hope there will be a solution for docx and pdf output.
My apologies for the confusion.

[cderv]

Yes this is related to the report in quarto-cli repo, and then ultimately this is kableExtra.

This issue here is just derived from the other as an idea to offer a helper to encode date correctly to pass to quarto.

I see the SO answer linked you here, as this is a workaround to format correctly the table content yourself, but this is not closing this issue that will solve your problem with kableExtra

[fgardavaud]

I'm agree with you. Thks for your time.