callout box type?

[grasshoppermouse]

Description

Academic papers often contain "boxes": one or more sections separate from the main body of the paper that do a deep dive on a subtopic. Here's part of the Instructions for Authors for Trends in Cognitive Sciences:

Callout blocks seem to be the Quarto feature that best match this role (true?). Boxes are typically referenced in the text, and callouts now support cross-references. However, there is no "box" callout type, so when I use this code:

See @nte-ecdf

::: {#nte-ecdf .callout-note}
## Box 1: How to interpret ECDF plots

![](ecdf.png)

The value of the empirical cumulative distribution function (ECDF; y-axis) is the fraction of observations that are less than or equal to a specific observation value (x-axis). 
:::

I get numbered "Notes" (not numbered boxes), and if I include "Box" in the title, as above, it's even worse:

I'm not sure if this is related to this issue, which suggests writing a Lua filter: #844

[mcanouil]

Did you try the extension mentioned in the issue you referenced?

Also, you can create whatever cross-reference float you like, see Custom Float Cross-Reference Types

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[mcanouil]

Indeed, the custom callout extension does not seem to be compatible with the custom cross-reference feature.

CC. @coatless

---
title: "Custom Callouts Rock!"
format: html
custom-callout:
  box:
    title: "Box"
    color: "purple"
    icon: "fa-question"
    collapse: "false"
filters:
  - custom-callout
crossref:
  custom:
    - kind: float
      reference-prefix: Box
      key: mybox
---

:::: {.box #mybox-1}
This is an box callout.
:::

[mcanouil]

Looking at Quarto CLI code, it does not seem quarto.Callout() supports identifier.
CC. @cscheid

[grasshoppermouse]

Using a custom x-ref and this code:

See @box-ecdf

::: {#box-ecdf .border}
Here's how to interpret ECDF's:

\```{r}
#| label: fig-tutorial
#| fig-cap: "Empirical cumulative distribution functions (ECDF) comparing distributions with **A**: different means; **B**: different variances; **C**: different skewness; and **D**: differnt modalities (unimodal vs. bimodal)."
ecdf_tutorial(1000)
\```

Some more text...
:::

I get something close, but with Box 1 in the wrong place (and no figure number):

[coatless]

@mcanouil correct. We aren't able to do identifiers this way. At some point, a pow-wow was on the books for registering custom identifiers around November's 1.6 release; but, I think everyone's life got hectic so working with custom elements in this way was pushed back to 1.8 or 1.9's feature roadmap.

In the interim, I'd probably suggest using @ute's awesome custom-numbered-blocks extension that was built for counting with like groups!

[grasshoppermouse]

Thanks, I'll try that next