Quarto is a scientific and technical publishing system built on Pandoc. It helps researchers, analysts and technical authors combine explanatory text, executable code and computational results into reproducible publications.
Authors can work with Markdown documents or Jupyter notebooks, embedding calculations, visualisations and other generated content alongside their explanations. Quarto integrates with computational environments including Python, R, Julia and JavaScript, allowing code and its output to become part of the published document.
The software can produce individual reports or larger projects containing related documents. Its publishing capabilities make it suitable for research papers, technical books, teaching materials, analytical reports and presentations. By keeping code and narrative material together, Quarto reduces the need to manually transfer results from analysis applications into separate documents.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Publishes documents, websites, books, presentations and dashboards from Markdown or notebooks.
- Integrates executable Python, R, Julia and JavaScript code with narrative text.
- Supports Jupyter kernels, knitr and Observable JavaScript for computational content.
- Generates HTML, PDF, Microsoft Word, ePub and other publication formats.
- Provides numbered cross-references for figures, tables, equations and document sections.
- Supports citations, bibliographies and CSL-based citation styles.
- Includes mathematical equations, callouts, code annotations, footnotes and complex page layouts.
- Can organise multiple documents into projects with shared configuration settings.
- Supports reusable document templates, filters and extensions.
- Produces academic articles and manuscripts using configurable publication formats.
- Includes presentation support through reveal.js, Beamer and other formats.
- Cross-platform support – runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.
Website: github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli
Support:
Developer: Posit Software, PBC
License: MIT License
Quarto is written in JavaScript and TypeScript. Learn JavaScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials. Learn TypeScript with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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