About Quarto
Quarto is an open source publishing system for technical and scientific writing. It turns plain text Markdown or Jupyter notebooks into finished documents, websites and presentations.
What it does
You write content in Markdown or in notebooks, and Quarto renders it with equations, citations and cross-references. The same source can be published as HTML, PDF, MS Word, ePub and other formats. Output can include results from Python, R, Julia or Observable JavaScript code, so the numbers in a report can be regenerated when the data changes.
Key features
- Markdown and Jupyter notebook input
- Equations, citations and cross-references
- Output to HTML, PDF, MS Word and ePub
- Code from Python, R, Julia and Observable
- Websites, blogs and books from one project
Who it's for
Quarto suits researchers, data scientists and technical writers who need reproducible reports. It also fits teams who publish the same material in several formats and want one source to maintain instead of many separate files.
Pricing and good to know
Quarto is open source and free to download. It runs on your own computer as a command line tool, and you can publish the output to a static host or to a platform such as Posit Connect. The language runtimes you use, such as Python or R, must be installed separately, and each format may need its own extra tools for PDF output.
Highlights
- Markdown and Jupyter notebook input
- Equations, citations and cross-references
- Output to HTML, PDF, Word and ePub
- Code from Python, R, Julia and Observable
- Websites, blogs and books from one project
