Quarto not rendering embed-resources with quarto_render()

cderv · January 18, 2023, 10:07am

This is quite an old installation now, as the latest in Quarto 1.2 and next is 1.3 current pre-release and soon to be out.

Quarto bundles Pandoc in a version, and it bundles Pandoc 2.18

github.com

quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/v1.0.38/configuration#L13


      
          
          # This file contains the global configuration for the quarto configuration
          #
          # The configuration is used both as a local runtime version of Quarto for developers
          # but it also used when packaging (e.g. run configure.sh, then prepare-dist.sh, then package.sh)
          
          
          # Binary dependencies
          export DENO=v1.22.0
          export DENO_DOM=v0.1.17-alpha
          export PANDOC=2.18
          export DARTSASS=1.32.8
          export ESBUILD=0.14.39
          
          # Bootstrap dependencies from bslib
          # (use commit hash from bslib repo)
          export BOOTSTRAP=888fbe064491692deb56fd90dc23455052e31073
          export BOOTSTRAP_FONT=1.8.1
          export BOOTSWATCH=5.1.3
          
          # javascript HTML dependencies

embed-resource is from Pandoc 2.19
https://pandoc.org/releases.html#pandoc-2.19-2022-08-03
and not so also not supported in Quarto before v1.1.x

github.com

quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/dd1cdc9da9dd14f972ce8eaead4b856ed30a0aa6/news/changelog-1.1.md?plain=1#L33


      
          - Update to latest OJS runtime (adding support for latest ObservableHQ runtime)
          - Fix multi-column regression (#1698)
          - Hide declarations in hugo format (#1812)
          - Enable OJS runtime in the presence of `ojs_define` (#1846)
          - Emit subcaptions correctly (#1711)
          - Use forward slashes in paths so OJS compilation works on windows (#1605)
          
          ## Pandoc
          
          - Update to Pandoc 2.19
          - Support for `embed-resources` document option
          - Remove workaround for https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/issues/8099
          
          ## References
          
          - Write additional citation metadata for compatibility with Highwire/Zotero (#1609)
          - Support for `nocite` within \_project.yml for book projects (#1660)
          - Improve support for Google Scholar metadata with extension to support Zotero / Highwire metadata
            (see https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/create-citeable-articles.html#citation-fields)
          
          ## Crossrefs