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-# quarto
+# Quarto
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+Python interface to Quarto, an academic, scientific, and technical publishing system built on [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org).
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+In addition to the core capabilities of Pandoc, Quarto includes:
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+1.  Support for embedding output from Julia, Python, and R via integration with [Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/) and [knitr](https://yihui.org/knitr/) .
+2.  A project system for rendering groups of documents at once.
+3.  Flexible ways to specify rendering options, including project-wide options and per-format options.
+4.  Cross references for figures, tables, equations, sections, listings, proofs, and more.
+5.  Sophisticated layout for panels of figures, tables, and other content.
+6.  Automatic installation of required LaTeX packages when rendering PDF output.
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+The overall design of Quarto is influenced heavily by [R Markdown](https://rmarkdown.rstudio.com/), however unlike R Markdown the architecture is language agnostic. In it's current iteration, Quarto can render plain markdown, Rmd documents, and Jupyter Notebooks.
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+For additional documentation, see the [Quarto Wiki](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/wiki).
 
-Python interface to the Quarto markdown publishing system (https://quarto-dev/quarto-cli). This package provides a Python wrapper for the quarto command line interface, which can be used to convert R Markdown documents and Jupyter Notebooks to a variety of output formats.