[R-pkg-devel] Including fonts in an rmarkdown vignette

[David Hugh-Jones]

Thank you for these suggestions. Google fonts sounds like quite an easy
approach.
David


On Wed, 3 Jun 2020 at 10:03, David Gohel <david.gohel using ardata.fr> wrote:

> David
>
> If you are ok to use one of the fonts available on google font, you could
> use package gfonts (in Suggests):
> https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gfonts/vignettes/gfonts.html
>
> As it will be « inline », your document size could inflate (I guess it
> could be an issue with CRAN) - if only one font, size should be ok.
>
> Otherwise, you also could add a css chunk to import the font from a public
> server - if no internet connexion, nothing will break.
>
> David
>
>
> Le 3 juin 2020 à 08:46, Maëlle SALMON via R-package-devel <
> r-package-devel using r-project.org> a écrit :
>
> Hi,
>
> I've recently seen an example of a package that provides its own fonts for
> a vignette. See links in
> https://blog.r-hub.io/2020/06/03/vignettes/#pretty-vignettes
>
>
> In that same post I link to a workaround I saw on this list
> https://www.mail-archive.com/r-package-devel@r-project.org/msg02921.html
> for changing the vignette format based on the versions of dependencies.
> Maybe something similar is possible for fonts (I have no idea).
>
> Maëlle.
>
> Den tisdag 2 juni 2020 20:14:24 CEST, David Hugh-Jones <
> davidhughjones using gmail.com> skrev:
>
>
>
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to build a rmarkdown vignette with my own choice of fonts – I'm
> pernickety about look and feel.
>
> R CMD check will rebuild vignettes in the vignettes/ directory, and if
> relevant fonts aren't on the build machine, it'll give a warning.
>
> Here are the options I can think of:
> * build vignettes on my machine and put them in inst/doc. Don't mention the
> specific fonts in the Rmd file in vignettes/. So the file built by "R CMD
> check" won't look quite like the pre-built version.  This might work, but
> it seems against open source principle.
> * put font files in vignettes/ and refer to them in the rmarkdown file. I'm
> not sure how to do this.
> * limit myself to the fonts preinstalled on win-builder or CRAN machines.
> I'm not sure what these are
>
> Has anyone got any advice or examples?
>
> Cheers,
> David
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