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Chip Brock
Chip Brock

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Navigation in quarto blog or book

I have created the shell of a Quarto blog for educational purposes. I plan some entries to be within categories and then within, sequential lessons.

So in category A, I might have post A1, A2, A3...Category B, posts B1, B2,...and so on. Linking among them can be cumbersome as blog posts and I gather that next/previous auto navigation is not yet possible in Quarto. I don't know if side navigation can be limited within a "category" so a 1000 side links would be cumbersome also.

However, I've written a large Jupyterbook site for a class so I'm familiar with that mode and assume that Quarto's Book is similar. Navigation in JB is slick and built-in. So it occurred to me that my categories could each be self-contained little books (Book A) and that chapters could be my A1, etc. This way navigation would be built-in with the Book features.

So might my "blog" be a hybrid: unrelated, tagged, "normal" blog posts and individual (short) little books for my different categories? What I'm uncertain about is combining multiple Quarto books inside of a Quarto Blog.

  1. Is that even remotely doable in an efficient way for me and for readers? I think of Quarto Books as stand-alone objects with their own processing and rendering.
  2. Could I maintain a tag set that would work within a "regular" post in the Blog part and also in a "Book"? That is, if a regular post needs to connect to a book chapter, will #tag1 point from Blog to Book? Or from Book A to Book B?
  3. Assuming this works, any suggestions on a good way to set up the overriding shell of pages to act as a dashboard?

Thanks for any suggestions... This could be slick if it's doable without a ton of maintenance.

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