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[EPIC] Differences on generated Markdown between knitr and jupyter engine

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Description

This issue is here to list the differences we observed in our journey between what is output by Jupyter engine, and by knitr engine.

At the end, quarto processing should be quite the same no matter which engine did the computations evaluation, but currently the output can be quite different, and thus our processing becomes quite complex.

Overtime, we should aim to close the gap between the two

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Research direction

Start by reviewing linked issues #7665 and #7607, then compare the listed differences between the Jupyter and knitr engines. This is an epic rather than a self-contained task; done means the engine-output discrepancies are addressed or clearly tracked as separate follow-up work.

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Assessment

Tech stack
jupyter, markdown
Domain
documentation
Issue type
Feature
Difficulty
5/5
Estimated time
Over a week
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Needs clarification
Newbie friendliness
25/100

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