[](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/latest) [](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/releases/) [](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/actions/workflows/create-release.yml) [](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/actions/workflows/test-smokes-parallel.yml) [](https://deepwiki.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli) # Quarto Quarto is an open-source scientific and technical publishing system built on [Pandoc](https://pandoc.org). Quarto documents are authored using [Markdown](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markdown), an easy to write plain text format. In addition to the core capabilities of Pandoc, Quarto includes: 1. Embedding code and output from Python, R, Julia, and JavaScript via integration with [Jupyter](https://jupyter.org/), [Knitr](https://yihui.org/knitr/), and [Observable](https://github.com/observablehq/). 2. A variety of extensions to Pandoc Markdown useful for technical writing including cross-references, sub-figures, layout panels, hoverable citations and footnotes, callouts, and more. 3. A project system for rendering groups of documents at once, sharing options across documents, and producing aggregate output like [websites](https://quarto.org/docs/websites/) and [books](https://quarto.org/docs/books/). 4. Authoring using a wide variety of editors and notebooks including [JupyterLab](https://quarto.org/docs/tools/jupyter-lab.html), [RStudio](https://quarto.org/docs/tools/rstudio.html), and [VS Code](https://quarto.org/docs/tools/vscode.html). 5. A [visual Markdown editor](https://quarto.org/docs/visual-editor/) that provides a productive writing interface for composing long-form documents. Learn more about Quarto at . ## Development Version To install the development version of the Quarto CLI, clone the `quarto-cli` repository then run the configure script for your platform (`configure.sh` for Linux/macOS or `configure.cmd` for Windows). For example: ```bash git clone https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli cd quarto-cli ./configure.sh ``` The `./configure.sh` script should add a symlink to `quarto` to your path. You can also run quarto by running `package/dist/bin/quarto`. To update to the latest development version, run `git pull` from the local repo directory: ```bash cd quarto-cli git pull ``` ## Running Tests To run all unit tests, execute the script in the test directory. ```bash cd tests ./run-tests.sh ``` To run a specific unit test, specify the script name. ```bash cd tests ./run-tests.sh smoke/extensions/extension-render-doc.test.ts ./run-tests.sh smoke/extensions/ ``` ## License Quarto is open source software available under the MIT license ().