### Discussed in https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/discussions/4266

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<sup>Originally posted by **michiexile** February  7, 2023</sup>
I'm writing a sequence of slides using Quarto and revealjs, and want to include an index file for my slides directory - both to be able to link to it, but also because the preview defaults to `index.html`, and I want more comfortable access to each of my slides.

So my directory contains
```
index.qmd
_quarto.yml
_definitions.qmd
extra.scss
L1.qmd
L2.qmd
L3.qmd
...
```

(as well as old cruft, including a random PDF, an `.rproj` file, an `.Rhistory` file, etc)

* `_definitions.qmd` - contains a few LaTeX `\def`, and gets included early in each of the lecture files.
* `L1.qmd`, ... each starts with something like
```
---
title: "Lecture 5"
format: revealjs
---

# Point Estimation

{{< include _definitions.qmd >}}
```
* `quarto.yml`
```
project:
  title: "Lectures MTH410"
  render:
    - "*.qmd"
    - "![FS][:digit:]{2}-lectures/"

execute:
  freeze: auto

author: Mikael Vejdemo-Johansson

format:
  revealjs:
    css: extra.css
    scrollable: true
    slide-number: c/t
    progress: true
    navigation-mode: linear
    code-fold: true
    error: false
    warning: false
    smaller: true
```
* `index.qmd`
```
---
title: "Lecture Slides and Notes"
format: html
listing:
  - id: lectures
    type: table
    contents:
      - "L[:digit:]+.qmd"
---

Here the lecture slides will appear as they are written.

::: {#lectures}
:::
```

No matter what I do, I cannot seem to get `index.qmd` to _actually_ list and link to the lecture slides themselves. `index.qmd` remains an empty page, except for the page title and whatever text I add before the div I provide for the listing itself. It doesn't matter whether I run `quarto render`, or use the Cmd-K shortcut in RStudio - same lack of results.

I don't understand why the listing does not generate. I don't understand how to get more debugging information out of quarto - trying to run preview or render with logging enabled does not give me any additional information.</div>
dragonstyle
2023-02-07T22:51:09Z
dragonstyle
v1.3
closed
No Listing generated (listing glob issue?)
https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/4267