Editing the text for custom secondary file formats

[aghaynes]

Description

It is possible to output multiple formats simultaneously by specifying them as defaults. It's also possible to customise the text thats shown for under under "other links". However, when extensions are used, the extension type seems to be appended to the text entered. Here I've used the quarto-letter extension:

quarto use template mcanouil/quarto-letter

---
title: "Untitled"
format: 
  html: default
  typst: default
  letter-pdf: default
format-links:
  - html
  - format: typst
    text: PDF
    icon: file-pdf
    target: "_blank"
  - format: letter-pdf
    text: PDF 2
    icon: file-pdf
    target: "_blank"
---

## Quarto

Quarto enables you to weave together content and executable code into a finished document. To learn more about Quarto see <https://quarto.org>.

That produces

Note that quarto has appended "(letter)" to PDF 2. Is it possible to override that behaviour? If I had wanted it to say "PDF 2 (letter)" I would have written that in the text argument...

Thanks!

[mcanouil]

Unfortunately, that's not currently possible:

• Allow opting out extension name part in format-link text when customizing content #10273

[aghaynes]

exactly that! any idea if/when it will be implemented?

[mcanouil]

Since 1.6 was just released, no idea when.
it could be part of 1.7 but could be for later than that.

[aghaynes]

from my side, if it could be part of 1.7, that would be great. There was another comment that it was also stopping it being used in production too...

[mcanouil]

You could hack your way with JavaScript if really needed.