Mark-up and -down

Creating rich documents

graph LR
  A[qmd] --> B(Knitr)
  A[qmd] --> C(Jupyter)
  B(Knitr) --> D[md]
  C(Jupyter) --> D[md]
  D[md] --> E(pandoc)
  E(pandoc) --> F(HTML)
  E(pandoc) --> G(PDF)
  E(pandoc) --> H(Word)
  E(pandoc) --> I{and more}

Figure 1: How Quarto orchestrates rendering of documents: start with a qmd file, use the Knitr or Jupyter engine to perform the computations and convert it to an md file, then use Pandoc to convert to various file formats including HTML, PDF, and Word.