Modern academic publishing with Quarto - A workshop

In this workshop students will be introduced to Quarto, a new tool for academic publishing. Quarto allows for 100% reproducible research reports and articles and can generate output in all traditional formats (Word, LaTeX, PDF, HTML, Powerpoint, and more). After a short explanation why Quarto is significant and important and why it makes sense for PhD students to learn Quarto, participants will learn the basic components of Quarto in a hands-on practical session. We will first cover (1) the most important formatting elements (headings, paragraphs, bold and italic text, numbered and unnumbered lists, footnotes, etc.), (2) how to include mathematical expressions, (3) figures and tables, (4) citations and references. In the second session of the workshop participants will (1) learn the most important YAML options that allow us to change the overall appearance of the document. In addition, (2) we will learn about so-called ""Code Chunks" small parts of code (we will use R in this workshop) that Quarto can execute in the rendering of its output. Knowledge of R is not required for this workshop. The R-code will be provided and can be copied into our demo-document. I will explain the basic operation of the respective R-code, but will not teach R. In this session participants will learn how to get the output of some analysis in R into their document. This includes regression results, tables, and figures. In the third session of the workshop participants will get an overview of some of the more advanced topics. They include the use of themes and extensions, interactive graphs, animated figures. If time permits, we will also look into some of the other formats that Quarto supports (books, slides, dashboards, etc.). Participants are expected to bring a laptop computer. In preparation for the workshop, participants will receive detailed instructions on what programs to install on this laptop.