quarto-dev / quarto-dev/quarto-cli

Offer better error messages when calls to pandoc API fails

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Since Jul 14, 2023.

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Description

We should consider a code review pass over our Lua filters to send all calls to the pandoc API through pcall, like we did in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/pull/6211 for run_json_filter.

In quarto we often can provide a more informative error message than the hard failure which Pandoc tends to produce.

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