add BiocStyle quarto engine

[LiNk-NY]

@federicomarini

Feel free to take a look and test

[federicomarini]

First rounds of test, here comes some results, for the records.

• As anticipated, one would need the

vignette: >
  %\VignetteIndexEntry{title of vignette}
  %\VignetteEngine{BiocStyle::html}

and VignetteBuilder: BiocStyle in the DESCRIPTION

• RStudio is not really able to pick up on the custom engine (in this case, BiocStyle::html) and renders the qmd document in a fairly vanilla manner, which makes it a bit chaotic to understand how the vignette really would look like if realized with our engine

• this is circumvented with the classical R CMD BUILD . and opening the rendered qmd vignette one should find in the inst/doc folder

• we might not be there yet with the styling as this is still squished in its width, see screenshot below

Still: I think this is a very good step in understanding how we can simplify the creation of Bioc-flavoured quarto docs, in the simplest way for many developers.
Happy to follow up once new developments come in 👍

[Copilot]

Pull request overview

This PR adds support for building BiocStyle vignettes with Quarto (.qmd) by registering a new vignette engine at package load time and providing Quarto-specific HTML theme assets.

Changes:

• Register a BiocStyle Quarto vignette engine during .onLoad()
• Add Quarto weaving helpers and Quarto metadata defaults (HTML/PDF)
• Add new Quarto HTML styling assets (biocstyle.scss and biocstyle.css) and declare Quarto in package metadata

Reviewed changes

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File	Description
R/zzz.R	Registers the new vignette engine during package load.
R/utils-vignettes.R	Implements Quarto-based vignette weaving and format metadata helpers.
inst/resources/html/biocstyle.scss	Adds SCSS theme rules intended for Quarto HTML output.
inst/resources/html/biocstyle.css	Adds compiled CSS used by the Quarto HTML format metadata.
DESCRIPTION	Declares quarto in Suggests and as a system requirement.

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