Tips for Writing and Publish Blog Posts
{fig-alt="Alt text"}
https://quarto.org/docs/authoring/markdown-basics.html#links-images
In quarto, the alt text is specified by fig-alt. You may be expecting the text in [] to be the
alt text, but it is actually going to be the caption.
As the description may span multiple lines, use the > syntax to specify a block scalar in yaml.
https://quarto-tdg.org/yaml.html#long-strings
We want to use the folded block scalar syntax in the right.
Specify alt text for thumbnail images with image-alt in the yaml top section.
---
title: "Unlocking Chemical Volatility: How the volcalc R Package is Streamlining Scientific Research"
aliases:
- "/blog/2024/09/23/unlocking-chemical-volatility-how-the-volcalc-r-package-is-streamlining-scientific-research"
description: >
"Kristina Riemer, director of the CCT Data Science Team at the University
of Arizona, and Eric Scott, Scientific Programmer and Educator in the CCT Data Science Team,
the developers behind the volcalc package, discuss the motivation and development of this
innovative tool designed to automate the calculation of chemical compound volatilities. "
author: "R Consortium"
image: "volcalc.webp"
image-alt: "banner for unlocking chemical volatility with volcalc"
date: "09/23/2024"
---The yaml can also contain aliases that redirect to the path of the old WordPress blog. This will help with posts that were published published in 2024 or earlier.