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Warn when layouts will produce nested figure environments
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Description
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Bug description
I'm having an issue with extra divs for html formatting causing extra figure environments to be created in latex output. I think this is similar to this issue https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4142
I'm have some qmd that generates some wide figures that I've used divs to stretch across the screen. I'm also trying to generate a pdf, but the divs cause an extra figure environment to be created and result in this error.
I basically created this problem for myself by deciding to go back and create pdf output from existing source qmd files that I made for web page generation, so I have a lot of them and I would appreciate a suggestion to reuse code like this for both html and pdf.
Steps to reproduce
Quarto render this file
---
title: testcase
format:
pdf:
keep-tex: true
html: default
---
## Test
:::::{.column-screen-inset-right}
:::{layout-ncol=3}



:::
:::::
Actual behavior
This is the error generated.
ERROR:
compilation failed- error
LaTeX Error: Not in outer par mode.
See the LaTeX manual or LaTeX Companion for explanation.
Type H <return> for immediate help.
...
l.182
see test.log for more information.
Expected behavior
Would like to avoid the extra figure environment that causes the error.
Your environment
- IDE: text editor - emacs 30.1
- OS: Ubuntu: 20.04
Quarto check output
Quarto 1.7.32
[✓] Checking environment information...
Quarto cache location: /home/apn/.cache/quarto
[✓] Checking versions of quarto binary dependencies...
Pandoc version 3.6.3: OK
Dart Sass version 1.85.1: OK
Deno version 1.46.3: OK
Typst version 0.13.0: OK
[✓] Checking versions of quarto dependencies......OK
[✓] Checking Quarto installation......OK
Version: 1.7.32
Path: /opt/quarto/bin
[✓] Checking tools....................OK
TinyTeX: (not installed)
Chromium: (not installed)
[✓] Checking LaTeX....................OK
Using: Installation From Path
Path: /usr/bin
Version: 2019
[✓] Checking Chrome Headless....................OK
Using: Chrome found on system
Path: /usr/bin/google-chrome
Source: PATH
[✓] Checking basic markdown render....OK
[✓] Checking Python 3 installation....OK
Version: 3.12.1
Path: /home/apn/sw/bin/python3
Jupyter: (None)
Jupyter is not available in this Python installation.
Install with python3 -m pip install jupyter
[✓] Checking R installation...........(None)
Unable to locate an installed version of R.
Install R from https://cloud.r-project.org/
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