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The Plan

Together we will:

  1. Create a new Quarto document.
  2. Render it and preview it.
  3. Add formatted text with Markdown.
  4. Add code cells.
  5. Add metadata

Markdown

  • Headers
  • Italics
  • Bold
  • Unorderd list
  • Ordered List
  • Footnote
  • Image

Code Cells

  • Begin / End
  • Language
  • Cell options behind |#
    • Evaluate code
    • Show code
    • Show message
    • Show warnings
    • Figure size

Metadata

  • Begin / End
  • Common formats
  • YAML

Your Turn I

Using the Quarto Guide https://quarto.org/docs/guide/ and the Quarto Reference (https://quarto.org/docs/reference/), do each of the following and then re-render your document.

  1. Change the theme of your HTML file
  2. Add a table of contents
  3. Change format to either typst or pdf
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Your Turn II

Using the Quarto Guide https://quarto.org/docs/guide/ and the Quarto Reference (https://quarto.org/docs/reference/), do each of the following and then re-render your document.

  1. Change format to revealjs
  2. Add a new slide with a bulleted list of your three favorite foods
  3. Change the transition style
  4. Bonus: Run quarto add schochastics/quarto-blackboard-theme at the terminal (say yes to everything) then change format to blackboard-revealjs.
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