Unclosed Span
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A bracketed span or link begins with
[ but no closing ] appears before the end of the block.
Q-2-1 — Unclosed Span
A bracketed span or link begins with
[but no closing]appears before the end of the block.
What this means
Square brackets in Quarto markdown open one of several inline
constructs: a link, a citation, a bracketed span. The parser
expects every [ to be balanced by a matching ] within the
same paragraph or block. This error fires when the closing
bracket never appears.
Why this happens
Common causes:
- A literal
[you intended as text. Outside of links and spans, a left bracket should be escaped as\[. - A typo that consumed the closing bracket. The bracket may have been deleted in a recent edit but its open form left behind.
- An unintended line break inside the construct. Many bracketed constructs do not survive a paragraph boundary.
How to fix
Add the closing ] at the intended end of the construct. If you
meant the [ literally, escape it with a backslash:
A literal \[bracket\] in prose.Example
The parser reports the error on input like:
an [unclosed span