I am using shortcodes in Quarto to access attributes in the _quarto.yml file. This works for some attributes and not others.
Let's say I have simple Quarto project with just two files:
_quarto.yml
index.qmd
The contents of _quarto.yml are:
project:
type: website
website:
title: "foobaz"
tmp:
something: "Something something"
Note that I made my own new attribute, for testing purposes, tmp.something. Sorry about the names, by the way.
The contents of index.qmd are
---
title: "The index page of the foobaz website"
---
This is the title from this page's header: "{{< meta title >}}".
I can even access the `tmp.something` in `_quarto.yml`: "{{< meta tmp.something >}}".
But I can not access {{< meta website.title >}}.
If I render this, in the console output, I get
WARNING (C:/PROGRA~1/RStudio/RESOUR~1/app/bin/quarto/share/filters/main.lua:17477) Unknown meta key website.title specified in a metadata Shortcode.
And the rendered html is
The index page of the foobaz website
This is the title from this page’s header: “The index page of the foobaz website”.I can even access the tmp.something in _quarto.yml: “Something something”.
But I can not access ?meta:website.title.
So I can access the title in the yaml header of the index.qmd itself. And I can access something from _quarto.yml, namely the tmp.something. But I can not access website.title from _quarto.yml.
I am very puzzled by this because it seems like such as basic requirement, i.e. to access top level attributes like the website's title and so on. I have spent a long time looking for anyone reporting this problem or any documentation telling me what I am doing wrong, but to no avail.
I have tested on Linux and Windows. I have tested in RStudio and in the terminal. I am using Quarto 1.5.57.