Excluding folders/files from vale

[kellertuer]

I. was wondering how to exclude certain folders or files from being valed. My scenario is the following:

I have a bunch of Julia (.jl), Markdown (.md, documentation) and Quarto ( .qmd, Tutorials) files in my repository.
In the beginning I only had the documentation under vale, before Julia started to be available.

My problem then was, that the Quarto files are actually rendered into the documentation and end up being Markdown files therein; though they are not under version control, since these are automatically generated (when generating the docs).
So the problem was now, that anything vale noticed was either

• just in the derived markdown files (when not considering .qmd files), but then it is hard to fix, since line numbers might of course change when rendering Quarto files. (evaluation code and displaying its results in the markdown file)
• including .qmd meant every error shows up twice.

So I wanted to exclude a folder and did read somewhere here, that that is not possible.

Yesterday I found that one can just set the BasedOnStyles for that folder to nothing.

[docs/src/tutorials/*.md]
 ; ignore since they are derived files
BasedOnStyles =

This nicely excludes this folder of (automatically generated) files and I get only one error (in the .qmd files); I also do not have to run all quarto rendering to check whether my fix solved the error.

Maybe this is helpful for someone.