Emphasize extension options can be set globally in _quarto.yml #924
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Modifies the existing _quarto.yml to showcase how to set a global extension value for `lightbox`.
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We might not want to use lightbox as the example here as this is now built in to Quarto v1.4 (so in the future not likely to be recognized as an extension).
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I suppose the next option would be latex-environment; however, this lacks a single top-level key (e.g. values are set in environments and/or commands). What it be okay if I used a made-up extension?
I avoided the other extensions in quarto-ext/ since they were either: shortcodes with no global options (fancy-text, holder, and fontawesome), format-specific keys (attribution and pointer), or only had code cell level options to set (shinylive and include-code-files).
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I do think it is supposed to be generally understood that anything you can put in document yaml can be put in _quarto.yml. Therefore it might be more than good enough to just comment on the fact that this also applies to extensions (rather than use an example).
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@coatless you haven't touched this PR in a while, are you still willing to edit it to focus on emphasizing that extension YAML can also be moved to |
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@cwickham I think when I was trying different combinations I discovered a merge bug between |
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So, perhaps we'll consider this PR stale and close it. Feel free to re-open if you want to pick it up again. |
Modifies the existing _quarto.yml to showcase how to set a global extension value for
lightbox.Follow up to the discussion in:
quarto-dev/quarto-cli#6968