rlesur/weasydoc

Convert R Markdown to PDF Using Weasyprint (or Prince XML)

weasydoc's Issues

Add support for the same variables as LaTeX document

Some pandoc variables are implemented in LaTeX output format and not in HTML5 output format (see https://pandoc.org/MANUAL.html#variables-set-by-pandoc):

• institute
• abstract

This could be implemented through a customised pandoc template.

Font-awesome icons

Do you think it could be possible to have access to font-awesome icons ?

By trying this 1) rstudio/rmarkdown#813 or this https://github.com/rstudio/fontawesome, I was able to add icons in the html document but they are absent in the pdf document with the weasyprint engine.

With Prince, only the 2) option works!

Maybe it's an issue for HTML to PDF converters rather than an issue for your package...

Attach a post processor to any html output format

It would be great if the user could add a post processor to any output format. This would be a smooth mean to generate a pdf.

Ugly pdf with weasyprint engine on windows

Using the hpdf_document output format with the WeasyPrint engine on Windows (7 or 10), the pdf is ugly.
There is no problem on Debian or Ubuntu.
Not tested on mac.

The hpdf_document format looks good on windows using Prince engine.

It seems there is a bug in the WeasyPrint windows version, but I do not understand what is the problem.

Produce a minimal example before opening an issue in the WeasyPrint project.

Thanks to @BenjaminLouis for the issue.

Footnotes support

By default, pandoc creates a footnotes section element at the end of the document.
The CSS Generated Content for Paged Media Module adopts a different definition.

Proposal: create a custom class .footnote that would be applied through pandoc's bracketed spans.

Another idea would be to create a pandoc filter for Note

Provide a tutorial on CSS Paged Media

CSS Paged Media is widely unknown from the R community. This package should provide a tutorial.

Webtex: implement options

Webtex service offers several options (fonts, font sizes...) that could be implemented.

Provide a short installation guide for WeasyPrint, Prince XML and the docker image

WeasyPrint installation is cumbersome.

The README file should contain a short installation guide that detail both the WeasyPrint and Prince XML install and the docker install.

sh: 1: weasyprint: not found

Trying a very simple example.

---
title: Test
output:
  weasydoc::hpdf_document
---

I get the following error when I knit.

output file: test2.knit.md

sh: 1: weasyprint: not found
Error: Document conversion failed with error 127
In addition: Warning message:
In system2(command = engine, args = args) : error in running command
Execution halted

But weasyprint command works fine in the terminal. Not sure why R can't seem to find it. I have tried restarting R, RStudio and the system. Is there some way way to specify a path to the executable? Or perhaps you see something that I don't.

Some issues with table display using {kable} package

Hi Romain,

I found some issues with table display using {kable} and {kableExtra} packages and inserting icons in the table. You'll find explanation and reprex here : https://github.com/BenjaminLouis/reprex-weasydoc/tree/master/issue%2312.

Without details, the issues are :

• When the R chunk with the table is in a CSS chunk, i.e. :

:::{.my-class} 
R_chink_with_kable
:::

you have to either use the html format with htmltools::HTML() function or use the markdown format in the kable() function

• If you want to insert icons with solution 1 from #11, you can only do it with the markdown format but then you can't use the kableExtra package to pimp your table

These observation works only for linux and WeasyPrint. Not tested on windowns and with Prince XML

Add support for Rmd attachment in pdf

weasyprint and prince can attach a file in the resulting pdf.
Therefore, the original Rmd file can be attached in the final pdf.

See http://weasyprint.readthedocs.io/en/latest/api.html#cmdoption-a
and https://www.princexml.com/doc/command-line/#cmd-pdf