Pass epub-title-page set in YAML on to Pandoc

news/changelog-1.11.md

@@ -71,6 +71,10 @@ All changes included in 1.11:
 - ([#14818](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/14818)): Fix a dashboard with more than one page going blank when the URL hash does not name a page, such as a footnote link or a cross-reference link.
 - ([#15023](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/15023)): Fix a dashboard cell's HTML output being moved out of its card when the output contains text such as `bslib` or the word "subslide", and the card being dropped, title included, when the cell shows nothing else. (author: @jooyoungseo)
 
+### `epub`
+
+- ([#15201](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/15201)): Fix `epub-title-page: false` being ignored when set in YAML (document front matter or `_quarto.yml`). It only took effect when passed on the command line as `--epub-title-page=false`. (author: @Masad791)
+
 ### `html`
 
 - ([#12452](https://github.com/quarto-dev/quarto-cli/issues/12452)): Fix repeated HTML escaping in Google Scholar metadata, including apostrophes in titles, special characters in authors and URLs, and nested reference metadata.

src/config/constants.ts

@@ -758,6 +758,7 @@ export const kPandocDefaultsKeys = [
   "epub-metadata",
   "epub-fonts",
   "epub-chapter-level",
+  "epub-title-page",
   kEPubCoverImage,
   "reference-links",
   kReferenceLocation,

tests/docs/smoke-all/2026/10/31/issue-15201.qmd

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+---
+title: Test
+format:
+  epub:
+    epub-title-page: false
+_quarto:
+  tests:
+    epub:
+      ensureEpubFileRegexMatches:
+        - path: EPUB/content.opf
+          regexes:
+            - []
+            - ["title_page"]
+---
+
+`epub-title-page: false` set in YAML reaches Pandoc, so no title page is generated.