| Callout | Highlighted block designed to draw the reader's attention; produced by the ::: {.callout-*} syntax with five types: note, tip, warning, important, caution |
| Liminaire | Set of pages placed before the main body of a thesis: acknowledgements, résumé, abstract, tables of contents, figures and tables, list of acronyms, glossary |
| Pandoc | Universal document converter developed by John MacFarlane; technical foundation of Quarto |
| pdfx | LaTeX package enabling PDF/A and PDF/X compliance; used in this template to produce a PDF/A-1b (option a-1b) |
| Postliminaire | Set of pages placed after the main body of a thesis: general conclusion, bibliography, appendices |
| Quarto | Open-source scientific publishing system based on Pandoc, developed by Posit PBC; produces PDF, HTML, EPUB, Word, slideshows, websites and books from QMD files |