Quarto book projects have empty rmarkdown::metadata

[theogrost]

Hi,

when trying colformat_md() on table with citations, this does not work in Quarto book projects, for individual files rmarkdown::metadata is empty list().
It helps to call colformat_md(metadata = list(bibliography = "references.bib")) - of course with proper references file path - and if one wishes other formatting than default, csl should be provided as well in metadata.

I am not sure if this can be solved in package, by looking for book project metadata, but I leave comment because it took me some time to figure out what is happening. This is likely to affect all executions that rely on metadata.

Currently, my work-around is:

the_metadata <- rmarkdown::metadata
if(length(the_metadata)==0 & file.exists("_quarto.yml")) {
    the_metadata <- yaml::read_yaml("_quarto.yml")
}

the_table <- ftExtra::colformat_md(
    the_table,
    metadata = the_metadata
)

Best regards,
Oskar

[atusy]

Thank you for the report. I will take a look at this issue in the next weekend.