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Mickaël CANOUIL, Ph.D.
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Quarto Extension Creator & R Package Developer | Biostatistics, Ph.D.
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Let's go for another colour refresh: Quarto Wizard documentation Wizard.

m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/

#Quarto #QuartoWizard #VSCode #PositronIDE
Quarto Wizard 2.1.3 homepage in dark mode showing the title and subtitle over a dark banner with a table of contents sidebar and a mascot illustration of a wizard cat in a pointed hat surrounded by glowing orange magical runes Quarto Wizard 2.1.3 homepage in light mode showing the title and subtitle over a dark banner with a table of contents sidebar and a mascot illustration of a wizard cat in a pointed hat surrounded by glowing orange magical runes
February 5, 2026 at 9:50 PM
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Coming soon: "Mastering Quarto CLI: From Authoring to Publishing" 🚀

A hands-on workshop covering setup, authoring, computations, formatting, branding, and publishing with Quarto.
Content available as HTML, Reveal.js (HTML and PDF), Typst PDF.

Stay tuned 👀

#Quarto #Workshop
Screenshot of the Mastering Quarto CLI From Authoring to Publishing workshop webpage by Mickael Canouil Ph.D. showing a navigation sidebar with Part 1 and Part 2 sections and the main content area with workshop title subtitle date and author details
February 5, 2026 at 9:29 PM
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Academic style title block

#Quarto #HTML #Academic #Research #DataScience
February 1, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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The current code-annotation support for Typst in Quarto.
A white card on a light grey background displays a "Code Annotations" heading, followed by a syntax-highlighted Python code block in a grey rounded box, with four bold-labelled "Line X" line descriptions in plain black text beneath it
February 1, 2026 at 10:22 PM
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Quarto code annotations in Typst?! 😏
(And fancy code blocks)

#Quarto #QuartoPub #Typst #TechnicalWriting #Teaching
Numbered code annotations beside a Python function showing interactive step-by-step explanations of each line
February 1, 2026 at 8:02 PM
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What Quarto extension would make your workflow easier?

There are already almost 300 extensions browsable at m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten... and installable via Quarto Wizard at m.canouil.dev/quarto-wizard/.

Drop your ideas below.
If there's enough interest, I might just build it.
#Quarto #OpenSource
What's Missing? 300 extensions and counting. Help shape what comes next.
January 29, 2026 at 1:16 PM
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"Preview Colour" finally preview named colours, and multiple colours for all formats.

github.com/mcanouil/qua...

#Quarto #QuartoPub
Screenshot showing Multiple and Embedded Colours section with three subsections: Multiple Colours (Inline) demonstrates colour codes in array format with visual colour indicators including red, green, and blue examples; Embedded Colours (in Code) shows colour values within R and CSS code snippets with colour previews; Mixed Formats displays both hexadecimal and RGB colour notation examples with corresponding colour dots. Screenshot showing Named Colours section demonstrating colour naming conventions: includes code examples for red, rebeccapurple, and cornflowerblue with visual colour indicators; text examples showing the same colour names; and British versus American spelling variants for gray and grey with corresponding colour previews.
January 28, 2026 at 9:42 PM
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That's amazing what you can do with Typst.
I made social cards for all my Quarto related projects.

#Quarto #Typst
Social card showing, on the left, "quarto-mcanouil" project a branding project for Quarto, with on the right a code windows showing Quarto syntax to use the custom formats/project. Social card with yellow gradient showing quarto-extensions-updater project and GitHub workflow code example Social card with pink-purple gradient showing quarto-external shortcode project and Quarto document example Social card with teal-green gradient showing quarto-gitlink filter project and Git reference examples
January 18, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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Sometimes you wish you could install just what you need.
Soon, you'll be able to cherry-pick exactly which extensions you want from a repository, instead of accepting the entire bundle.
(Some Quarto extensions do share multiple sub-extensions 😉)
#QuartoWizard #Quarto #VSCode #PositronIDE
Quarto extension installation dialogue showing multi-extension selection interface with three unchecked 'andrewheiss hikmah' extensions available for installation.
January 5, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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What if you could install Quarto extensions from private GitHub repositories?!

#QuartoWizard #Quarto
December 31, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Imagine you could choose the (hidden) files/directories to copy when using Quarto template/format extension. (quarto use ...)

#Quarto #QuartoWizard #VSCode #PositronIDE
Simple file selection dialogue with selected items from VSCode IDE. File selection dialogue showing expanded directories
December 29, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The "professional" style in dark mode, with title page.
Typst PDF overview showing 24 pages with various contents showcasing the "professional" styling
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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The "academic" style with no title page and in light mode.
Typst PDF overview showing 24 pages with various contents showcasing the "academic" styling
December 28, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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This Typst template with rich features for Quarto is coming along nicely. (light and dark mode support)

#Quarto #Typst
Two-page spread from the 'Typst Template Feature Showcase: Complete Guide to the Mickaël CANOUIL Typst Template,' displaying examples and descriptions of value box grid layouts and various info panel styles including subtle, emphasis, accent, outline, and status-based panels like info, success, warning, and danger. Includes rich content formatting options and parameter explanations.
December 28, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Example: GitHub pull request showing a merged Quarto extension update with release notes and version change from 1.5.0 to 2.0.1
GitHub pull request showing a merged Quarto extension update with release notes and version change from 1.5.0 to 2.0.1
December 12, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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🎉 New feature on the Quarto Extensions directory!

Extension developers can now display development status banners using GitHub Topics (superseded, deprecated, archived, experimental, stable).

🔗 m.canouil.dev/quarto-exten...

#Quarto #QuartoPub #QuartoExtension #OpenSource #DataScience
Three side-by-side screenshots of Quarto extension cards showing development status banners. The left card displays a GitHub extension with a brown superseded banner, the middle card shows a GitLink extension with a green stable banner, and the right card presents a details extension from the coatless-quarto collection with repository statistics and description.
November 30, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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New Quarto extension: "Reveal.js Tabset"! ✨

Brings proper tabset navigation to Reveal.js presentations with keyboard controls and PDF export support.
Navigate tabs as fragments, support nested content, and export correctly to PDF.
github.com/mcanouil/qua...

#Quarto #RevealJS #Teaching #DataScience
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Major release: "Highlight Text" Quarto extension 2.0.0 is here! 🎨✨
New block-level highlighting with div syntax and customisable borders (solid, dashed, dotted, double).
Works across HTML, LaTeX, Typst, Docx, PowerPoint, Reveal.js, and Beamer.
github.com/mcanouil/qua...
#Quarto #DataScience
Demo slide displaying various text highlighting features including red foreground text yellow background text white text on blue background solid dashed and dotted border examples purple highlighted text and a red block section containing bulleted list with nested yellow highlight.
November 24, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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🫣
#Quarto #QuartoPub
Cartoon dog wizard wearing blue hat with red band holding magic wand creating HTML and CSS code scrolls in starry night scene
October 19, 2025 at 9:09 PM
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Weekend experiment 🧪: I created a GitHub Action that automatically updates Quarto extensions in your repository, similar to how Dependabot manages dependencies.

Still experimental but promising! 🚀https://github.com/mcanouil/quarto-extensions-updater

#Quarto #GitHubActions #Automation #DataScience
GitHub pull request showing automated Quarto extension updates from iconify version 3.0.0 to 3.0.1 and preview-colour version 1.0.0 to 1.0.4 with release notes for each extension
October 19, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Some work in progress based on the feedbacks received already.

#Quarto #QuartoPub
August 8, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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Quarto Iconify 3.0.0 is there!

Set your own global default values via the YAML frontmatter because sometimes you want things to get upside down all at once 🙃

github.com/mcanouil/qua...

#Quarto #Iconify #HTML
The image shows a section of documentation for the Iconify Quarto Extension version 3.0.0. The documentation includes a code block with YAML configuration settings for the extension, specifying the title, subtitle, format, and iconify settings such as set, size, and flip. Below the code block, there is a table with two columns: "Shortcode" and "Icon." The table lists four shortcodes for different emojis and their corresponding icons. The shortcodes are '{{< iconify exploding-head >}}', '{{< iconify anguished-face >}}', '{{< iconify astonished-face >}}', and '{{< iconify face-with-spiral-eyes >}}'. The icons are an exploding head emoji, an anguished face emoji, an astonished face emoji, and a face with spiral eyes emoji, respectively. All icons are upside down.
May 20, 2025 at 4:20 PM
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Big news! I've added *light* and *dark* mode options to the Quarto Extensions listing.
Switch between modes effortlessly using the sun/moon button.
#Quarto #QuartoPub #DarkMode
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April 27, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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🚀 Excited to announce the release of Quarto's "Highlight Text" v1.2.0!
Now featuring light & dark brand mode for the perfect highlight in any style.

Check it out!
github.com/mcanouil/qua...

#Quarto #HighlightText #QuartoPub #BrandYML
April 24, 2025 at 9:19 PM
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Struggling with tabset navigation in Quarto Reveal.js?
Frustrated with PDF exports that mess up your theming?
Say goodbye to those headaches!

Read my latest blog post and let your slides flow seamlessly: mickael.canouil.fr/posts/2025-0...

#Quarto #RevealJS #Decktape #DataScience #QuartoPub
Illustration showing Quarto Reveal.js presentation with tabset navigation.
April 21, 2025 at 2:31 PM