How to insert a @reference citation in a raw LaTeX chunk?

[vincentarelbundock]

Description

Hi everyone,

I would like to insert a @reference citation inside a raw LaTeX table, and I was hoping that Quarto would automatically substitute it for an appropriate \cite{reference} command or string with author names.

In a raw Typst chunk, I can use the @ syntax and the citation is interpreted. With format:pdf, however, the @reference is not interpreted and is displayed as-is.

Is this working only because it is native Typst syntax?

One answer could simply be that I should not expect Quarto to handle citations in raw chunks. That would be fine, but I'd love it if one someone could confirm either way.

# this fails
quarto render example.qmd --to pdf

# this works
quarto render example.qmd --to typst

Reproducible notebook:

---
bibliography: refs.bib
---

How to embed citations in raw LaTeX code? @Lovelace1843

# LaTeX

```{=latex}
\begin{tabular}{l}
Quarto \\
@Lovelace1843 
\end{tabular}
```

# Typst

```{=typst}
#table(
  columns: (auto),
  table.header(
    [Quarto],
  ),
  [@Lovelace1843],
)
```

And associated refs.bib file:

@article{Lovelace1843,
  author       = {Lovelace, Ada and Menabrea, Luigi Federico},
  title        = {Sketch of the Analytical Engine invented by Charles Babbage, 
                  by L.~F.~Menabrea, of Turin, Officer of the Military Engineers. 
                  With notes by the translator},
  journal      = {Scientific Memoirs, Selected from the Transactions of Foreign 
                  Academies and Learned Societies and from Foreign Journals},
  volume       = {3},
  pages        = {666--731},
  year         = {1843}
}

[mcanouil]

Typst does not use Pandoc citeproc by default contrary to LaTeX.

To allow the references or anything markdown related there is a need to tell Quarto to do that.
For HTML, that's the data-qmd attribute which allows Quarto to read and do the right thing.

This mechanism only exists for HTML at the moment.

• https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/tables.html#html-tables

[vincentarelbundock]

Thanks for the clarification. That is helpful.