leg-cite Extension For Quarto

This filter implements citation macros for United States House and Senate bills, resolutions, amendments, and committee reports, as well as Presidential Nominations. Given a short citation like 118hr8070 between curly brackets (a.k.a. braces — {}), the rendered Quarto document will display a link to the bill, resolution, amendment, report, or nomination referenced by the citation on Congress.gov.

Installing

# this installs from the main Git branch
quarto add blackerby/leg-cite

# the latest release is v0.2.0
quarto add blackerby/leg-cite@v0.2.0

Any of these will install the extension under the _extensions subdirectory. If you're using version control, you will want to check in this directory.

Using

Usage is simple: with leg-cite included in the filter list in the header of your qmd document, place a short citation, like 118hr8070, between curly brackets ({}) in your text, i.e., {118hr8070}, and when rendered, your document will display a link to the legislation referenced by the citation on Congress.gov: H.R.8070.

Example

Here is the source code for a minimal example: example.qmd.