Source for the ORCA User Guide — a Quarto book
covering installation and local runs of TransLink's regional activity-based
modeling workflow. The rendered guide is published to GitHub Pages on every
push to main.
📖 Read the guide:https://translinkforecasting.github.io/orca_user_guide/
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├── _quarto.yml # book definition: chapter order, theme, formats
├── index.qmd # landing page / preface
├── chapters/
│ ├── 01-setup.qmd # Chapter 1 — Setup
│ └── 02-run-model.qmd # Chapter 2 — Running the Model
├── images/ # shared figures (referenced from chapters)
├── .github/workflows/publish.yml # CI: render + deploy to GitHub Pages
└── _book/ # render output (git-ignored)
Reading order is controlled by the chapters: list in _quarto.yml. The
NN- filename prefixes only keep things tidy on disk and in pull requests —
they don't determine order on their own.
- Quarto CLI 1.4 or newer.
- No Python/Jupyter needed — chapters are prose plus non-executed shell snippets.
quarto previewStarts a live-reloading server; edit any .qmd and the browser refreshes.
quarto renderWrites the static site to _book/ (git-ignored).
Create
chapters/NN-topic.qmdwith minimal front matter:--- title: "Your Chapter Title" ---
Add its path to the
chapters:list in_quarto.yml, in the position you want it to appear.
Live at https://translinkforecasting.github.io/orca_user_guide/
.github/workflows/publish.yml renders the book and deploys it via GitHub
Pages on every push to main — no manual step needed. Pages is configured
with Source = GitHub Actions (set once under Settings → Pages).
Optional: uncomment the repo-url / repo-actions block in _quarto.yml
and point it at the repo URL to enable the "Edit this page" and "Report an
issue" margin links on each page.