Columns not rendering in .pdf

[giorgiopaulon]

Hi all!

I am working on a Quarto template that can render many features across several output types, i.e., .pdf, .docx and .HTML. One of the features that I am not able to export correctly is a list of items in a column environment. This shows correctly in the HTML but not in the .pdf generated by Quarto (as seen in the pictures below).

I attach below a reproducible example. Am I missing something?

---
title: "Columns"
format: 
  # html:
  #   self-contained: true
  pdf:
    documentclass: article
---

:::: {.columns}

::: {.column width="50%"}
-   [ ] Item 1
-   [ ] Item 2
-   [x] Item 3
:::

::: {.column width="50%"}
-   [x] Item on the right
:::

::::

[stibu81]

This is probably much too late for you, but maybe it will help someone else. It seems that the .columns-syntax does not work with pdf articles. (It works with beamer, though.) I found here that the following works for pdf articles:

---
title: "Columns"
format: 
  # html:
  #   self-contained: true
  pdf:
    documentclass: article
---

:::: {layout="[1, 1]"}

::: {}
-   [ ] Item 1
-   [ ] Item 2
-   [x] Item 3
:::

::: {}
-   [x] Item on the right
:::

::::

This also worked for html and docx.

[mcanouil]

@stibu81

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[mcanouil]

@stibu81 Better to not resurrect 4 years old dead thread (also marked as "stale"), as it does not really help and trigger noise notifications to maintainers and participants.

[mcanouil]

The layout feature is documented on <quarto.org>:

• https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#block-layout
• https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#complex-layouts
• https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/figures.html#figure-panels

.column is a Pandoc feature for presentations:

• https://quarto.org/docs/presentations/index.html#multiple-columns