diff --git a/.quartoignore b/.quartoignore
index 95db102..0632f33 100644
--- a/.quartoignore
+++ b/.quartoignore
@@ -1,2 +1,6 @@
 README.md
+NEWS.md
 LICENSE
+docs/
+.quarto/
+!.gitignore
diff --git a/NEWS.md b/NEWS.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..3cf7997
--- /dev/null
+++ b/NEWS.md
@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+## Sverto 0.0.2
+
+- Bump minimum Quarto version to 1.3.0.
+- Fixes for compatibility with newer Quarto 1.3 pre-releases
+  - Quarto's switch from Pandoc 2 to Pandoc 3 caused some issues with the way Sverto identifies Svelte import statements. This should no longer be a problem.
+- We now take advantage of the improved `.quartoignore` functionality in Quarto 1.3 to:
+  1. avoid copying the `docs` folder in with the project template; and
+  2. include the `.gitignore` with the template
+
+## 0.0.1
+
+- Initial release
diff --git a/_extensions/sverto/_extension.yml b/_extensions/sverto/_extension.yml
index 2522b6e..1e08544 100644
--- a/_extensions/sverto/_extension.yml
+++ b/_extensions/sverto/_extension.yml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 title: Sverto
 author: 360info
-version: 0.0.1
-quarto-version: ">=1.2.0"
+version: 0.0.2
+quarto-version: ">=1.3.0"
 contributes:
   project:
     project:
diff --git a/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua b/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua
index 62c714a..4e6d462 100644
--- a/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua
+++ b/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-- create-imports: a project pre-render script that:
+-- * replaces svelte_import() ojs statements in qmd files, saving to /.sverto
+-- * writes svelte import paths to /.sverto s othey can be compiled
+
+-- some content from quarto's qmd-reader.lua
+-- (c) 2023 rstudio, pbc. licensed under gnu gpl v2:
+-- https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/main/COPYRIGHT
+
 -- return contents of named file
 function read_file(name)
   local file = io.open(name, "r")
@@ -53,10 +61,114 @@ function path_dir(path)
     return path:match("(.*".. get_path_sep() ..")") or ""
 end
 
--- TODO - 
+-- content following from quarto's qmd-reader.lua
+-- (c) 2023 rstudio, pbc. licensed under gnu gpl v2:
+-- https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/main/COPYRIGHT
+
+function random_string(size)
+  -- we replace invalid tags with random strings of the same size
+  -- to safely allow code blocks inside pipe tables
+  -- note that we can't use uppercase letters here
+  -- because pandoc canonicalizes classes to lowercase.
+  local chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+  local lst = {}
+  for _ = 1,size do
+    local ix = math.random(1, #chars)
+    table.insert(lst, string.sub(chars, ix, ix))
+  end
+  return table.concat(lst, "")
+end
+
+function find_invalid_tags(str)
+  -- [^.=\n]
+  --   we disallow "." to avoid catching {.python}
+  --   we disallow "=" to avoid catching {foo="bar"}
+  --   we disallow "\n" to avoid multiple lines
+
+  -- no | in lua patterns...
+
+  -- (c standard, 7.4.1.10, isspace function)
+  -- %s catches \n and \r, so we must use [ \t\f\v] instead
+
+  local patterns = {
+    "^[ \t\f\v]*(```+[ \t\f\v]*)(%{+[^.=\n\r]*%}+)", 
+    "\n[ \t\f\v]*(```+[ \t\f\v]*)(%{+[^.=\n\r]+%}+)"
+  }
+  local function find_it(init)
+    for _, pattern in ipairs(patterns) do
+      local range_start, range_end, ticks, tag = str:find(pattern, init)
+      if range_start ~= nil then
+        return range_start, range_end, ticks, tag
+      end
+    end
+    return nil
+  end
+
+  local init = 1
+  local range_start, range_end, ticks, tag = find_it(init)
+  local tag_set = {}
+  local tags = {}
+  while tag ~= nil do
+    init = range_end + 1
+    if not tag_set[tag] then
+      tag_set[tag] = true
+      table.insert(tags, tag)
+    end
+    range_start, range_end, ticks, tag = find_it(init)
+  end
+  return tags
+end
+
+function escape_invalid_tags(str)
+  local tags = find_invalid_tags(str)
+  -- we must now replace the tags in a careful order. Specifically,
+  -- we can't replace a key that's a substring of a larger key without
+  -- first replacing the larger key.
+  --
+  -- ie. if we replace {python} before {{python}}, Bad Things Happen.
+  -- so we sort the tags by descending size, which suffices
+  table.sort(tags, function(a, b) return #b < #a end)
+
+  local replacements = {}
+  for _, k in ipairs(tags) do
+    local replacement
+    local attempts = 1
+    repeat
+      replacement = random_string(#k)
+      attempts = attempts + 1
+    until str:find(replacement, 1, true) == nil or attempts == 100
+    if attempts == 100 then
+      print("Internal error, could not find safe replacement for "..k.." after 100 tries")
+      print("Please file a bug at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli")
+      os.exit(1)
+    end
+    -- replace all lua special pattern characters with their
+    -- escaped versions
+    local safe_pattern = k:gsub("([%^%$%(%)%%%.%[%]%*%+%-%?])", "%%%1")
+    replacements[replacement] = k
+    local patterns = {
+      "^([ \t\f\v]*```+[ \t\f\v]*)" .. safe_pattern,
+      "(\n[ \t\f\v]*```+[ \t\f\v]*)" .. safe_pattern
+    }
+
+    str = str:gsub(patterns[1], "%1" .. replacement):gsub(patterns[2], "%1" .. replacement)
+  end
+  return str, replacements
+end
+
+function unescape_invalid_tags(str, tags)
+  for replacement, k in pairs(tags) do
+    -- replace all lua special replacement characters with their
+    -- escaped versions, so that when we restore the behavior,
+    -- we don't accidentally create a pattern
+    local result = k:gsub("([$%%])", "%%%1")
+    str = str:gsub(replacement, result)
+  end
+  return str
+end
 
 local preprocess_qmd_filter = {
-  
+
   -- search for `import_svelte("X.svelte")` refs in codeblocks and switch them
   -- to `import("X.js")`
   CodeBlock = function(block)
@@ -114,15 +226,62 @@ end
 -- transform each input qmd, saving the transformation in .sverto/[path]
 -- (write the identified .svelte files out to a file too!)
 for key, qmd_path in ipairs(in_files) do
-  
-  local doc = pandoc.read(read_file(qmd_path))
+
+  -- before we read the file in with pandoc.read, let's read it in as a raw
+  -- string and do the quarto team's qmd-reader processing on it. THEN we can
+  -- read it with pandoc.read
+
+  print(">>> PROCESSING " .. qmd_path)
+
+  local raw_doc = read_file(qmd_path)
 
   -- store the current qmd_path on disk so the filter can access it
   write_file(".sverto/.sverto-current-qmd-folder", path_dir(qmd_path))
+
+  -- escape invalid tags
+  local txt, tags = escape_invalid_tags(tostring(raw_doc))
+
+  -- some extension + format stuff that we can maybe ignore?
+  
+  -- for k, v in pairs(opts.extensions) do
+  --   extensions[v] = true
+  -- end
+
+  -- if param("user-defined-from") then
+  --   local user_format = _quarto.format.parse_format(param("user-defined-from"))
+  --   for k, v in pairs(user_format.extensions) do
+  --     extensions[k] = v
+  --   end
+  -- end
+
+  -- -- Format flavor, i.e., which extensions should be enabled/disabled
+  -- local flavor = {
+  --   format = "markdown",
+  --   extensions = extensions,
+  -- }
+
+  local function restore_invalid_tags(tag)
+    return tags[tag] or tag
+  end
+
+  -- NOW we read in with pandoc (hopefully ending up with real code blocks)
+  -- and restore them
+  -- local doc = pandoc.read(txt, flavor, opts):walk {
+  local doc = pandoc.read(txt, "markdown")
+  
+  local restored_doc = doc:walk {
+    CodeBlock = function (cb)
+      cb.classes = cb.classes:map(restore_invalid_tags)
+      cb.text = unescape_invalid_tags(cb.text, tags)
+      return cb
+    end
+  }
+
+  -- local doc = pandoc.read(read_file(qmd_path))
   
   -- pre-process the qmd, populating `svelte_files` in the process
   -- local svelte_files = {}
-  local transformed_doc = doc:walk(preprocess_qmd_filter)
+  local transformed_doc = restored_doc:walk(preprocess_qmd_filter)
   create_dir_recursively(".sverto/" .. path_dir(qmd_path))
   write_file(".sverto/" .. qmd_path, pandoc.write(transformed_doc, "markdown"))
   
@@ -132,3 +291,4 @@ end
 write_file(".sverto/.sverto-outdir", os.getenv("QUARTO_PROJECT_OUTPUT_DIR"))
 
 -- TODO - if there's no {{< import .sverto/file.qmd >}} block, add it?
+
diff --git a/docs/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua b/docs/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua
index 62c714a..4e6d462 100644
--- a/docs/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua
+++ b/docs/_extensions/sverto/create-imports.lua
@@ -1,3 +1,11 @@
+-- create-imports: a project pre-render script that:
+-- * replaces svelte_import() ojs statements in qmd files, saving to /.sverto
+-- * writes svelte import paths to /.sverto s othey can be compiled
+
+-- some content from quarto's qmd-reader.lua
+-- (c) 2023 rstudio, pbc. licensed under gnu gpl v2:
+-- https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/main/COPYRIGHT
+
 -- return contents of named file
 function read_file(name)
   local file = io.open(name, "r")
@@ -53,10 +61,114 @@ function path_dir(path)
     return path:match("(.*".. get_path_sep() ..")") or ""
 end
 
--- TODO - 
+-- content following from quarto's qmd-reader.lua
+-- (c) 2023 rstudio, pbc. licensed under gnu gpl v2:
+-- https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/blob/main/COPYRIGHT
+
+function random_string(size)
+  -- we replace invalid tags with random strings of the same size
+  -- to safely allow code blocks inside pipe tables
+  -- note that we can't use uppercase letters here
+  -- because pandoc canonicalizes classes to lowercase.
+  local chars = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"
+  local lst = {}
+  for _ = 1,size do
+    local ix = math.random(1, #chars)
+    table.insert(lst, string.sub(chars, ix, ix))
+  end
+  return table.concat(lst, "")
+end
+
+function find_invalid_tags(str)
+  -- [^.=\n]
+  --   we disallow "." to avoid catching {.python}
+  --   we disallow "=" to avoid catching {foo="bar"}
+  --   we disallow "\n" to avoid multiple lines
+
+  -- no | in lua patterns...
+
+  -- (c standard, 7.4.1.10, isspace function)
+  -- %s catches \n and \r, so we must use [ \t\f\v] instead
+
+  local patterns = {
+    "^[ \t\f\v]*(```+[ \t\f\v]*)(%{+[^.=\n\r]*%}+)", 
+    "\n[ \t\f\v]*(```+[ \t\f\v]*)(%{+[^.=\n\r]+%}+)"
+  }
+  local function find_it(init)
+    for _, pattern in ipairs(patterns) do
+      local range_start, range_end, ticks, tag = str:find(pattern, init)
+      if range_start ~= nil then
+        return range_start, range_end, ticks, tag
+      end
+    end
+    return nil
+  end
+
+  local init = 1
+  local range_start, range_end, ticks, tag = find_it(init)
+  local tag_set = {}
+  local tags = {}
+  while tag ~= nil do
+    init = range_end + 1
+    if not tag_set[tag] then
+      tag_set[tag] = true
+      table.insert(tags, tag)
+    end
+    range_start, range_end, ticks, tag = find_it(init)
+  end
+  return tags
+end
+
+function escape_invalid_tags(str)
+  local tags = find_invalid_tags(str)
+  -- we must now replace the tags in a careful order. Specifically,
+  -- we can't replace a key that's a substring of a larger key without
+  -- first replacing the larger key.
+  --
+  -- ie. if we replace {python} before {{python}}, Bad Things Happen.
+  -- so we sort the tags by descending size, which suffices
+  table.sort(tags, function(a, b) return #b < #a end)
+
+  local replacements = {}
+  for _, k in ipairs(tags) do
+    local replacement
+    local attempts = 1
+    repeat
+      replacement = random_string(#k)
+      attempts = attempts + 1
+    until str:find(replacement, 1, true) == nil or attempts == 100
+    if attempts == 100 then
+      print("Internal error, could not find safe replacement for "..k.." after 100 tries")
+      print("Please file a bug at https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli")
+      os.exit(1)
+    end
+    -- replace all lua special pattern characters with their
+    -- escaped versions
+    local safe_pattern = k:gsub("([%^%$%(%)%%%.%[%]%*%+%-%?])", "%%%1")
+    replacements[replacement] = k
+    local patterns = {
+      "^([ \t\f\v]*```+[ \t\f\v]*)" .. safe_pattern,
+      "(\n[ \t\f\v]*```+[ \t\f\v]*)" .. safe_pattern
+    }
+
+    str = str:gsub(patterns[1], "%1" .. replacement):gsub(patterns[2], "%1" .. replacement)
+  end
+  return str, replacements
+end
+
+function unescape_invalid_tags(str, tags)
+  for replacement, k in pairs(tags) do
+    -- replace all lua special replacement characters with their
+    -- escaped versions, so that when we restore the behavior,
+    -- we don't accidentally create a pattern
+    local result = k:gsub("([$%%])", "%%%1")
+    str = str:gsub(replacement, result)
+  end
+  return str
+end
 
 local preprocess_qmd_filter = {
-  
+
   -- search for `import_svelte("X.svelte")` refs in codeblocks and switch them
   -- to `import("X.js")`
   CodeBlock = function(block)
@@ -114,15 +226,62 @@ end
 -- transform each input qmd, saving the transformation in .sverto/[path]
 -- (write the identified .svelte files out to a file too!)
 for key, qmd_path in ipairs(in_files) do
-  
-  local doc = pandoc.read(read_file(qmd_path))
+
+  -- before we read the file in with pandoc.read, let's read it in as a raw
+  -- string and do the quarto team's qmd-reader processing on it. THEN we can
+  -- read it with pandoc.read
+
+  print(">>> PROCESSING " .. qmd_path)
+
+  local raw_doc = read_file(qmd_path)
 
   -- store the current qmd_path on disk so the filter can access it
   write_file(".sverto/.sverto-current-qmd-folder", path_dir(qmd_path))
+
+  -- escape invalid tags
+  local txt, tags = escape_invalid_tags(tostring(raw_doc))
+
+  -- some extension + format stuff that we can maybe ignore?
+  
+  -- for k, v in pairs(opts.extensions) do
+  --   extensions[v] = true
+  -- end
+
+  -- if param("user-defined-from") then
+  --   local user_format = _quarto.format.parse_format(param("user-defined-from"))
+  --   for k, v in pairs(user_format.extensions) do
+  --     extensions[k] = v
+  --   end
+  -- end
+
+  -- -- Format flavor, i.e., which extensions should be enabled/disabled
+  -- local flavor = {
+  --   format = "markdown",
+  --   extensions = extensions,
+  -- }
+
+  local function restore_invalid_tags(tag)
+    return tags[tag] or tag
+  end
+
+  -- NOW we read in with pandoc (hopefully ending up with real code blocks)
+  -- and restore them
+  -- local doc = pandoc.read(txt, flavor, opts):walk {
+  local doc = pandoc.read(txt, "markdown")
+  
+  local restored_doc = doc:walk {
+    CodeBlock = function (cb)
+      cb.classes = cb.classes:map(restore_invalid_tags)
+      cb.text = unescape_invalid_tags(cb.text, tags)
+      return cb
+    end
+  }
+
+  -- local doc = pandoc.read(read_file(qmd_path))
   
   -- pre-process the qmd, populating `svelte_files` in the process
   -- local svelte_files = {}
-  local transformed_doc = doc:walk(preprocess_qmd_filter)
+  local transformed_doc = restored_doc:walk(preprocess_qmd_filter)
   create_dir_recursively(".sverto/" .. path_dir(qmd_path))
   write_file(".sverto/" .. qmd_path, pandoc.write(transformed_doc, "markdown"))
   
@@ -132,3 +291,4 @@ end
 write_file(".sverto/.sverto-outdir", os.getenv("QUARTO_PROJECT_OUTPUT_DIR"))
 
 -- TODO - if there's no {{< import .sverto/file.qmd >}} block, add it?
+
diff --git a/docs/_quarto.yml b/docs/_quarto.yml
index 5e35c3d..5c1a937 100644
--- a/docs/_quarto.yml
+++ b/docs/_quarto.yml
@@ -17,6 +17,8 @@ website:
         menu:
           - text: "Bar chart"
             file: examples/barchart/index.qmd
+      - text: Changelog
+        file: news.qmd
       # - about.qmd
     right:
       - icon: github
diff --git a/docs/index.qmd b/docs/index.qmd
index 0adff72..149e759 100644
--- a/docs/index.qmd
+++ b/docs/index.qmd
@@ -68,7 +68,7 @@ Here's the short way to add Svelte component you've written to a Quarto doc:
 5. Update the instantiated component with `myVisual.propName`
 6. Render your Quarto project as usual with `quarto render` or `quarto preview`.
 
-**To see this all in practice, check out [`example.qmd`](https://github.com/360-info/sverto/blob/firstrelease/example.qmd).**
+**To see this all in practice, check out [`example.qmd`](https://github.com/360-info/sverto/blob/main/example.qmd).**
 
 :::{.callout-note}
 The `quarto preview` command won't "live reload" when you modify your Svelte component—but if you modify and save the Quarto doc that imports it, that will trigger a re-render. You may need to hard reload the page in your browser to see the updated Svelte component.
diff --git a/docs/news.qmd b/docs/news.qmd
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..7828ced
--- /dev/null
+++ b/docs/news.qmd
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+---
+title: News
+author: James Goldie, 360info
+date: last-modified
+format:
+    html:
+      title-block-banner: "#e1e4e6"
+      linkcolor: "#36a7e9"
+---
+
+## Sverto 0.0.2
+
+- Bump minimum Quarto version to 1.3.0.
+- Fixes for compatibility with newer Quarto 1.3 pre-releases
+  - Quarto's switch from Pandoc 2 to Pandoc 3 caused some issues with the way Sverto identifies Svelte import statements. This should no longer be a problem.
+- We now take advantage of the improved `.quartoignore` functionality in Quarto 1.3 to:
+  1. avoid copying the `docs` folder in with the project template; and
+  2. include the `.gitignore` with the template
+
+## 0.0.1
+
+- Initial release