Qquestion Extension For Quarto

Intersperse text with short questions to the reader. They can include invisible answers or hints that are collected and can be output when format = pdf. Questions are numbered for reference, and marked by a 🤔 emoji. The extension is meant for html and pdf output.

Installing

quarto add ute/qquestion

This will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

In the yaml, add

filters: 
    - qquestion

To insert a question in the text enclose text in {{? and ?}}. To add an answer or hint to the question, separate the answer text from question by :|:, within the same pair of brackets.

To collect answers for use in pdf, add the LaTeX command \collectanswers before any question with answers. Retrieve answers including a reference number by adding the LaTeX command \qsolutions in your text.

Change appearance of questions and answers by hacking the files qquestions.css and qquestions.tex.

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd.