Hacking Quarto Callout in LaTeX
a small customization victory
Quarto
LaTeX
TIL
The Quarto Guide goes into details about how to define callout blocks and eventually customize them.
Of course, I was asked to change the color of the callout box, which is not out-of-the-box available. A look at the generated LaTeX file shows that quarto-callout-note-color is set as
\definecolor{quarto-callout-note-color-frame}{HTML}{4582ec}I then tried to add a different definition using include-in-header:…but the default definitions of the callout boxes colors came after mine!
So I dug in the PDF template and saw that latest place where to set things before the LaTeX body is to provide a custom title.tex partial
...
$title.tex()$
\begin{document}
$before-body.tex()$
...The solution: I copied the default title.tex and added my color definition. Finally I set the YAML of my Quarto document as follows:
...
pdf:
...
template-partials:
- title.tex
...TADA!
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Citation
BibTeX citation:
@online{spinielli2023,
author = {Spinielli, Enrico},
title = {Hacking {Quarto} {Callout} in {LaTeX}},
date = {2023-05-01},
url = {https://enrico.spinielli.net/posts/2023-05-01-quarto-callout-hack},
langid = {en}
}
For attribution, please cite this work as:
Spinielli, Enrico. 2023. “Hacking Quarto Callout in LaTeX.”
May 1, 2023. https://enrico.spinielli.net/posts/2023-05-01-quarto-callout-hack.