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Quarto blog posts

The Quarto blog has a new home#

The Quarto blog has moved to the Posit Open Source blog. All past and future Quarto posts now live here alongside posts from our other open-source projects. Quarto’s documentation, including the Guide, Reference, Gallery, and download pages, remains at quarto.org .

All blog posts

Quarto 2: Parsing and Source Maps

Why Quarto 2 ships its own Markdown parser: actionable syntax errors, source locations that survive the entire processing pipeline, and a syntax we can hold stable for the project’s lifespan

Carlos Scheidegger

May 7, 2026

Chrome Headless Shell in Quarto

Quarto 1.9 replaces Puppeteer Chromium with Chrome Headless Shell — smaller, arm64-ready, and Docker-friendly

Christophe Dervieux

Apr 14, 2026

What’s next: Quarto 2

We’ve started working on quarto-dev/q2, a full rewrite of Quarto in Rust

Carlos Scheidegger

Apr 6, 2026

A Typst article page showing code and a margin figure rendered with the Marginalia package

Typst Books, Article Layout, and typst-gather

Quarto 1.9 adds Typst book projects, article margin layout via Marginalia, and offline package bundling with typst-gather

Gordon Woodhull

Mar 31, 2026

Quarto 1.9

Quarto 1.9 adds publishing to Posit Connect Cloud, LLM-friendly website output, major Typst improvements, experimental PDF accessibility standards, and list tables for complex table content

Charlotte Wickham

Mar 24, 2026

Quarto icon, PDF file icon, accessibility icon, and validation shield

PDF Accessibility and Standards

Quarto 1.9 brings PDF accessibility and standards support, building on new tagging features in LaTeX and Typst

Gordon Woodhull

Mar 5, 2026

posit::conf(2025) Quarto talks

Videos of talks from posit::conf(2025) are posted, and you can find them all here!

Andrew Holz

Nov 24, 2025

Quarto workshop materials @ posit::conf(2025)

posit::conf(2025) Quarto workshop materials

At posit::conf(2025) we hosted two Quarto workshops: Branded Websites, Presentations, Dashboards, and PDFs with Quarto; and Extending Quarto. The materials from both workshops are freely available for anyone to learn from or use in their own teaching

Charlotte Wickham

Oct 27, 2025

Cartoon dog wizard wearing blue hat with red band holding magic wand creating HTML and CSS code scrolls in starry night scene.

Quarto Wizard 1.0.0: Democratising Quarto Extension Management

Introducing a game-changing extension for VS Code and Positron that transforms Quarto extensions management with an intuitive GUI for extensions and templates

Mickaël CANOUIL, _Ph.D._

Oct 20, 2025

Quarto 1.8

Quarto 1.8 improves brand support, introduces brand extensions, adds HTML accessibility checks, and gives access to execution context

Charlotte Wickham

Oct 13, 2025

quarto R package v1.5.0: Streamlined Workflows for R Users

The quarto R package 1.5.0 brings powerful new features for passing R values to Quarto metadata, inserting Markdown in HTML tables, working with R scripts, building paths from Quarto projects, and automating Quarto CLI from R

Christophe Dervieux

Jul 28, 2025

A slide with a screenshot of a Jupyter notebook with a graph and text, then an arrow pointing to a stack of PDF files each with a graph and text.

From One Notebook to Many Reports: Parameterized reports with the jupyter engine

Learn how to transform a single Jupyter notebook into a parameterized report generator that automatically creates customized outputs for different scenarios

Charlotte Wickham

Jul 24, 2025

Quarto icon and text above GitHub Codespaces.

How to use GitHub Codespaces to simplify your Quarto workshops

In this post, I’ll teach you the basics of GitHub Codespaces and how to use them to make it easier to teach using Quarto

Mickaël CANOUIL, _Ph.D._

May 19, 2025

Quarto 1.7

Quarto 1.7 brings big improvements to dark mode along with updates to Typst, Pandoc, a new version shortcode, and improvements to the julia engine

Charlotte Wickham

Apr 28, 2025

Tip - use Positron to choose colors for your project brand

Use Positron’s integrated color picker for an easy way to choose colors for your next project’s _brand.yml

Carlos Scheidegger

Jan 15, 2025

Use meta + include to customize reusable content

The “Includes” feature in Quarto lets you efficiently reuse content across multiple files. Combined with the “meta” shortcode, it enables you to set precise, file-specific values

Ashley Henry

Dec 12, 2024

Quarto website video series

Build a personal website with Quarto by following this four-part video series on YouTube

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Dec 4, 2024

Quarto 1.6

Quarto 1.6 supports unified branding across formats, updates to RevealJS, a new shortcode to reorder content, a landscape page block, and more. There are also a couple of breaking changes that will affect a small number of users

Charlotte Wickham

Nov 25, 2024

Build a dashboard workshop with Quarto, R and/or Python.

Quarto dashboards video series

Learn how to build a Quarto dashboard with a three-part video series

Charlotte Wickham, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Nov 22, 2024

Collage of speakers with Quarto talks at posit::conf(2024)

posit::conf(2024) Quarto talks

Videos of talks from posit::conf(2024) are posted, we’ve compiled a playlist of Quarto talks for you!

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Charlotte Wickham

Nov 6, 2024

posit::conf(2024) Quarto workshop materials

Back in August, we hosted three Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024); the materials from those workshops are available to learn and teach from!

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Charlotte Wickham

Oct 15, 2024

Quarto 1.5

Quarto 1.5 improves Typst support, has some website enhancements like draft handling and announcement bars, adds a native Julia engine, and adds a couple of shortcodes for generating placeholder content

Charlotte Wickham

Jul 11, 2024

Beautiful Tables in Typst

You can use HTML Tables with CSS styling in Typst via Quarto

Gordon Woodhull

Jul 2, 2024

posit::conf(2024) iconography including Seattle skyline on the left and the words 'Quarto workshops' on the right.

Quarto workshops at posit::conf(2024)

On August 12, we’re hosting a day of workshops featuring three dedicated to Quarto at posit::conf(2024) in Seattle

Isabella Velásquez, Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

May 28, 2024

From multiple Quarto documents and scripts in R and python to PDF or Word output.

Quarto for Reproducible Medical Manuscripts

R/Medicine webinar on Quarto manuscripts

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Apr 1, 2024

Quarto on Hugging Face

You can now host Quarto sites on Hugging Face using the new Quarto Space template

Gordon Shotwell

Mar 26, 2024

Quarto 1.4

Quarto 1.4 brings new formats for dashboards and Typst, a new manuscript project type, a cross-reference overhaul, Shiny for Python support, and a ton of other updates

Charlotte Wickham

Jan 24, 2024

Quarto Dashboards Demonstration

Video demo of Quarto v1.4’s new dashboard feature with Charles Teague

Andrew Holz

Dec 7, 2023

Screenshots of homepages of six courses titled From R Markdown to Quarto

ASA Traveling Courses on Quarto

Series of workshops for learning Quarto with R and RStudio, aimed primarily at R Markdown users

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Dec 5, 2023

Quarto for Academics

A video highlighting some of Quarto’s features that are especially useful for academics, as educators and as researchers

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

May 22, 2023

Get Started with Quarto

A new video for getting started with Quarto using R and RStudio

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

May 15, 2023

Fireworks with a silhouette of an audience

Quarto 1.3

Quarto 1.3 brings new features, improvements, and fixes

Charlotte Wickham

Apr 26, 2023

Confluence Publishing

Quarto 1.3 adds support for publishing individual documents, and projects containing many documents to Atlassian Confluence

Charlotte Wickham

Mar 20, 2023

A screenshot of a Quarto page that includes a plot, below the plot is the phrase Source: penguins.ipynb.

Jupyter Notebook Cell Embedding

Quarto 1.3 adds support for embedding cells from a Jupyter Notebook into a Quarto document via an embed shortcode. In HTML documents, links are automatically added that point to a rendered version of the external notebook

Charlotte Wickham

Mar 17, 2023

Screenshot of a Quarto webpage showing a section entitled 'Other Formats' with items Jupyter and MS Word

Multi-format Publishing

In Quarto 1.3, additional formats listed in HTML documents will automatically be linked in an “Other Formats” section near the top of the page

Charlotte Wickham

Mar 15, 2023

Screenshot a code chunk with annotations. Annotations appear in the code chunk as numbers within circles, and repeat below the code chunk along with the text content of the annotations.

Code Annotation

In Quarto 1.3, you can add line based annotations to code chunks to highlight or explain parts of your code

Charlotte Wickham

Mar 13, 2023

Screenshot of a Quarto document with an embedded Shinylive application.

Shinylive Extension

With Shinylive, you can embed Shiny for Python applications into Quarto documents and run the entire application (including the Python runtime) inside the user’s web browser

Winston Chang

Oct 25, 2022

The main page for the quarto-ext GitHub organization which lists extensions published by the Quarto core team.

Quarto Extensions

Quarto Extensions are a powerful way to modify or extend the behavior of Quarto, and can be created and distributed by anyone. Extension types include filters, shortcodes, and custom formats

JJ Allaire

Jul 25, 2022

Quarto at rstudio::conf(2022)

rstudio::conf(2022) will feature a variety of workshops and talks on Quarto. Join us in Washington DC this July 25-28 to learn more about Quarto and hear from folks using Quarto to create, share, and collaborate

Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel

Jun 21, 2022

Screenshot of two sections of post: Margin Figures, which has a plot in the margin; and Arbitrary Margin Content, which has text with a LaTeX equation in the margin.

Positioning Content in the Margin

This post demonstrates a few of the capabilities for positioning content in the margin of the page. You can read more about the complete capabilities in the Article Layout Guide

Charles Teague

Feb 17, 2022

Table 1: Example. Has two subtables: Subtable a, Cars, with columns for speed and dist; and subtable b, Pressure, with columns for temperature and pressure.

Customizing Table Output

This post provides an overview of these capabilities in Quarto. For more detail about all the features Quarto for authoring tables, see Tables

JJ Allaire

Feb 15, 2022

Three calout boxes: A note (has a blue banner with info icon preceding the header), a tip (has a green banner with lightbulb icon preceding the header), and an important (has a red banner with info exclamation-point icon preceding the header).

Using Callouts

Callouts are an excellent way to draw extra attention to certain concepts, or to more clearly indicate that certain content is supplemental or applicable to only some scenarios

Charles Teague

Feb 13, 2022