Reverse quarto ?

[lcrmorin]

Description

Say I have a file of the format that can be output by quarto (Word ? Html ?) and I want to create a notebook from this existing file (text cells with formatted markdown). Would there be a 'reverse quarto' solution to handle those translations automatically ?

[mcanouil]

That's not the goal of Quarto.
You look online for such tools but they won't give you back a Quarto document.
At best they will give you a basic Markdown.

What I don't understand is why if you generate the HTML using Quarto you don't generate a notebook directly? Search through discussions to have several examples.

[cscheid]

Quarto uses Pandoc internally, and you can call Quarto's version of Pandoc directly with quarto pandoc .... Pandoc does support conversion from html and docx, but you will likely need to do a lot of additional work to get a "clean" document. See https://pandoc.org/