Practical Quarto
Patterns, templates, and tooling
September 14th, 2026
posit::conf(2026)
Setup
Please check the Setup Instructions for recommended steps to take before the workshop.
Schedule
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 09:00 - 09:15 | Welcome |
| 09:15 - 10:30 | Productive workflows in Positron |
| 10:30 - 11:00 | Coffee break |
| 11:00 - 12:10 | Design once, use anywhere |
| 12:10 - 12:30 | Interlude: q2 |
| 12:30 - 13:30 | Lunch break |
| 13:30 - 15:00 | Build reusable structures |
| 15:00 - 15:30 | Coffee break |
| 15:30 - 16:30 | Why Typst matters |
| 16:30 - 17:00 | Wrap-up + Q&A |
Instructors
Charlotte Wickham is a Senior Developer Advocate at Posit with a focus on Quarto. Before Posit, she taught Statistics and Data Science at Oregon State University.
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel is Professor of the Practice at Duke University in the Department of Statistical Science and Senior Developer Advocate at Posit, PBC, where she’s part of the tidyverse team. Mine is a co-author of influential open textbooks like R for Data Science and OpenIntro Statistics, and her contributions to education and open science have earned her several accolades, including the Waller Education Award by the American Statistical Association, the Robert V. Hogg Award by the Mathematical Association of America, and the Pickard Award by Harvard University’s Department of Statistics.
Description
This workshop is designed for Quarto users who want to update and extend their Quarto mastery. Led by Charlotte Wickham and Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, this workshop will introduce new features of Quarto as well as blend practical recipes with conceptual understanding, so you can both copy–paste what works and understand why it works. Rather than a linear tour of Quarto features, the workshop is organized as a collection of focused, reusable patterns—each one solving a real authoring or publishing problem you’re likely to encounter.
Themes will include:
Work productively in Positron: Pick up Positron- and Quarto-specific productivity tips, including auto-formatting with Air, and practical ways to incorporate LLMs into your Quarto workflow.
Design once, use anywhere: Learn how to work effectively with light and dark modes, brands, and multiple output formats, and how to share a consistent brand across multiple Quarto projects without duplication or fragility.
Build reusable structures: Use template partials to factor out repeated content and layouts, making large or long-lived projects easier to maintain and evolve.
Understand why Typst matters: Explore why Typst deserves a place on your radar, with concrete “quick wins” that show how it can dramatically simplify PDF generation.
By the end of the workshop, you’ll have a curated set of Quarto recipes and a mental model for how the pieces fit together. You’ll leave the workshop equipped to create more polished documents, scale your workflows across projects and teams, and make deliberate, informed choices about tools, formats, and authoring strategies.
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.
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You can reuse these materials, including to teach your own workshop. Two conditions apply. You must give credit, and you must release your version under the same license.
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