Extension for a PhD thesis with Quarto

[eeholmes]

First stab and it still has lots to fix. I made it in an effort to learn to create a Quarto extension. I have only tested on my M1 Air (Quarto 1.0.38). It is based on MastersDoctoralThesis.cls from https://www.latextemplates.com/template/masters-doctoral-thesis

https://github.com/nmfs-opensci/quarto-thesis

Best to install the whole repo since a thesis it has lots of folders: Chapters, Appendices, Frontmatter, and is a Quarto project.

quarto use template nmfs-opensci/quarto-thesis

Or hop on an play with it on RStudio Cloud: https://rstudio.cloud/content/4383755

The pdf it generates

Problems

• Meh, all the stuff in Frontmatter is mandatory LaTeX since it is being injected into the tex document after the qmd is processed. Probably need to learn how to write a lua filter to render the Frontmatter qmd to LaTeX via Pandoc.

• I doubt that passing in classoptions in your _quarto.yml will work. The elsevier lua filter suggests that the classoptions need to be added on.

• Why does index-blx.bib keep appearing?

• Meh, I use variables that are defined in book so I have to use things like book.university in my Pandoc partials. Feels a little fragile.