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Generates an HTML gallery of all project figures with captions and source notebooks. Use when reviewing figures.

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Generate Figures Gallery

Create an HTML gallery page displaying all project figures with their captions and source notebooks.

Steps

  1. Scan images/ for all image files:

    • Supported formats: .png, .jpg, .jpeg, .svg, .pdf
    • Record each file's name, path, and modification date

  2. Scan all registered notebooks (from _quarto.yml) for cells with fig- labels:

    • Extract the cell label (e.g., fig-sample, fig-event-study)
    • Extract the caption from #| fig-cap: or *| fig-cap: directives
    • Record the source notebook path

  3. Generate an HTML gallery page with:

    • A title and generation timestamp
    • For each figure from images/:
      • Image thumbnail (or placeholder for PDFs)
      • Filename as caption
      • File size and dimensions (if determinable)
    • For each figure from notebooks:
      • The cell label
      • The caption (from cell directive)
      • The source notebook name
      • The embed shortcode: {{< embed notebooks/<name>.ipynb#<label> >}}
    • Simple CSS styling for a grid layout

  4. Save the gallery to _manuscript/figures-gallery.html (the _manuscript/ directory is gitignored, so this output won't be committed).

  5. Report:

    • File path to the gallery
    • Count of figures from images/
    • Count of figure cells from notebooks
    • Command to open: open _manuscript/figures-gallery.html

Error handling

  • If images/ does not exist or is empty, note it and continue with notebook figures.
  • If no notebooks have fig- labeled cells, note it and continue with images/ files.
  • If both sources are empty, report "No figures found in the project."