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Oct 31 • 9 tweets • 7 min read
Quarto becomes *really* cool when you see all the beautiful outputs it can create.

Let's have a look at some more #QuartoPub examples.

Let's start with good old fashioned PDF documents.

With Quarto, you can still do all the PDF stuff you used to do.

nmfs-opensci.github.io/quarto_titlepa… ImageImage
You can even add beautiful title pages to your PDFs.
nmfs-opensci.github.io/quarto_titlepa… Image
You can also create websites with

complicated layouts quarto-dev.github.io/quarto-gallery…

interactive elements (great for teaching) quarto.org/docs/interacti… ImageImage
Presentations? No problem.

You can do

- Modern html presentations with transitions, animations and whatnot quarto.org/docs/presentat…

- classical LaTeX beamer quarto-dev.github.io/quarto-gallery…

- even PowerPoint quarto-dev.github.io/quarto-gallery… ImageImageImage
And you can pour all your knowledge into

- a book tellingstorieswithdata.com

- a Wiki quarto.org/docs/reference…

- a blog albert-rapp.de/posts/13_quart… ImageImage
Or you could organize your next course online with your own custom website. sta210-s22.github.io/website/

Speaking about custom websites, fast.ai created their beautiful website with Quarto. nbdev.fast.ai ImageImage
For more great examples check out the Quarto gallery.
quarto.org/docs/gallery/
That's a wrap for today.

I'm convinced that Quarto can do many great things. And I hope that I could motivate you to give it a try.

Tomorrow, we're going to talk about hurdles when switching from LaTeX to Quarto.

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