Designing and Deploying Internal Quarto Templates

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Shows how an organization packages Quarto templates inside an internal R package (files placed under inst/_extensions) so a single function (create_zelus_html) copies logos CSS/SCSS, installs fonts, creates a ready-to-render .qmd in the user’s working directory and opens it. Uses HTML/CSS tricks inspected via dev tools and Mozilla Web Docs, supports HTML/PDF/slides (Typst migration planned), and keeps templates private instead of public GitHub repos.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 1:07Why internal Quarto templates matter
3. 2:33Benefits of consistent templates
4. 3:58Template example and content
5. 5:44Customizing templates with CSS
6. 7:09Browser dev tools for CSS
7. 8:56CSS and HTML learning resources
8. 9:40Sharing Quarto templates
9. 10:43Packaging templates in R packages
10. 11:45File structure for Quarto templates
11. 12:28Automating template deployment
12. 13:32Demo: template creation and usage
13. 14:15Key takeaways
14. 15:22Q&A

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