Multiple format publishing not working as expected.

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Description

I am trying to provide links to pdf and .docx files from the html rendered webpage of my quarto website.

I am using GitHub Actions to publish the website, so I know I need to use execute: freeze: auto. However, when I render and then push the changes, I get the error:

Rendering PDF
running xelatex - 1

No TeX installation was detected.

Please run 'quarto install tinytex' to install TinyTex.
If you prefer, you may install TexLive or another TeX distribution.

Which hints it is trying to render the pdfs even though I have specifically told it not to as per Quarto's website instructions.

I could instead have the files in the repository (in the same folder as the .qmd file), and just link to them using other-links but I cannot work out if there is a way to use the relative paths from the folder so that this is easy to do across different files.

Hope this makes some sense!

Cheers
Dan

[mcanouil]

Please provide all required information: repository, GitHub Action workflow, Quarto CLI version, etc.
An error message without context/code is not sufficient to provide you with any help.

Which hints it is trying to render the pdfs even though I have specifically told it not to as per Quarto's website instructions.

This comment does not match your title "Multiple format publishing not working as expected.".
Are you publishing/rendering multiple formats or not?

Could you share a small self-contained "working" (reproducible) example to work with, i.e., a complete Quarto document or a Git repository? The goal is to make it as easy as possible for us to recreate your problem so that we can fix it: please help us help you! Thanks.

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You can share a self-contained "working" (reproducible) Quarto document using the following syntax, i.e., using more backticks than you have in your document (usually four ````).
See https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#small-is-beautiful-aim-for-a-single-document-with-10-lines.

If you have multiple files (and if it is absolutely required to have multiple files), please share as a Git repository.

R	Python
````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: knitr --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{r} x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4, 5) y <- c(1, 4, 9, 16, 25) plot(x, y) ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````	````qmd --- title: "Reproducible Quarto Document" format: html engine: jupyter --- This is a reproducible Quarto document. {{< lipsum 1 >}} ```{python} import matplotlib.pyplot as plt x = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5] y = [1, 4, 9, 16, 25] plt.plot(x, y) plt.show() ``` {#fig-placeholder} {{< lipsum 1 >}} The end after @fig-placeholder. ````

Additionally and if not already given, please share the output of quarto check within a code block (i.e., using three backticks ```txt), see https://quarto.org/bug-reports.html#check.

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Thanks @mcanouil I actually solved this in the end.

Many thanks
Dan