Using Quarto Part 2
More snow and wind! Lots of wind! Not a nice day to be outside as the high is expected to be 23o F. Just the excuse to post something…
Today I’m still exploring Quarto usage for my website/blog. I just discovered the video shortcode seems not to work. I had embedded a video as a test in an earlier post on the old website, but just discovered it seems to be broken in Quarto. On the original blog posting, Video Testing, it works fine. It seems the shortcode will not work as it doesn’t recognize the file as playable, and won’t render the post. However, using the normal embed image format, it works fine. Also, without using width or height, the video is the text width.
In the first post about Quarto, I mentioned Quarto’s inability to locate the “R” installation. I even placed “QUARTO_R=” in the .bashrc file. Still no joy.
I’m sure there are other things that wait to be discovered (passive voice) as I haven’t gone through all the moved posts. However, I did go through most posts where I thought there could be problems, and found a few fixes, so that is done!
At the navbar here, there is a link “A Biker’s Tale” that for some reason will not link. It is a book in html format that runs fine on the old site, but the various parts just don’t want to work well together. So, until I determine the problem, I just present it as a PDF file.
One issue I haven’t run across yet with Quarto is updates happen every time, and that’s good. Many times using Hugo, after a random amount of updates, the post’s changes would not occur unless I pressed “save” more than once. That could have been a caching issue, but it certainly was annoying.
One thing I neglected to mention was the main reason I am taking this effort at all. And that is I have been exploring ways to simply present a sidebar list of post categories. Then I discovered Quarto blog themes that do that very thing. So that is the real driver behind this, in addition to Quarto being the supposed “Next Generation” rmarkdown. And I am continually fascinated by R Core Team (2023), Allaire et al. (2023), Xie, Dervieux, and Presmanes Hill (2023), and Xie (2023). Even though I am not a “Data Scientist”, I can still use R for many other things. One of my favorite uses is displaying mathematical formulae in ways to make it simple to see. And it’s fun to explore…
Bottom line: I am still exploring the differences between Hugo and Quarto. I’m sure there will be more later…
God Bless and stay warm!