A comprehensive guide to installation, commands, and professional PDF rendering.

Installation & Setup

Get your environment ready for technical publishing.

• Download Quarto CLI from quarto.org
• Install "Quarto" VS Code Extension
• Verify via terminal: quarto check
• Restart VS Code to load paths

VS Code Commands

Efficiency tools accessible via Command Palette (Ctrl+Shift+P).

• Quarto: Preview (Live server)
• Quarto: Render Project (Build all)
• Insert Code Chunk (Ctrl+Shift+I)
• Quarto: Create Project (Scaffold new)

PDF Rendering

Generate publication-quality PDFs using TinyTeX.

• Run quarto install tinytex in terminal
• Set YAML header to format: pdf
• Cmd: quarto render doc.qmd --to pdf
• Auto-installs missing LaTeX packages